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environmental activism
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The Rhode Island-based artist creates sculptures from trash that look like wildlife from one perspective — but reveal themselves as much more when you take a closer look.
Read more: The Rhode Island-based artist creates sculptures from trash that look like wildlife from one perspective — but reveal themselves as much more when you take a closer look.“Works in Progress” highlights artists across a range of disciplines whose work deals with ecological themes. Considering the particular role that artists play in the climate movement, this column shares their voices and provides a glimpse behind the curtain into…
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the Fundred Project
Read more: the Fundred ProjectThe Fundred Dollar Bill Project, initiated by artist Mel Chin, is a collaborative art project aimed at raising awareness and mobilizing action against the environmental and health threat of lead contamination. It encourages individuals to create their own unique interpretations…
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Bed Stuy Aquarium
Read more: Bed Stuy AquariumThe Bed-Stuy “aquarium” is back. The neighborhood’s beloved sidewalk fish pond was resurrected this week — in an act of defiance that comes just five days after the city cemented over the original and left the neighborhood’s goldfish to die.…
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36.5 / A DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE WITH THE SEA: New York Estuary
Read more: 36.5 / A DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE WITH THE SEA: New York EstuaryA site-specific, community-engaged process: Sarah and NYC collaborators gathered at the water’s edge every month from September 2020 (when the work was initially scheduled to take place but was postponed due to the pandemic) until September 2022, to build Kin…
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Tim DeChristopher Thwarts a Land Auction (Bidder 70)
Read more: Tim DeChristopher Thwarts a Land Auction (Bidder 70)In December 2008, Tim DeChristopher, along with his church group, was protesting outside a Bureau of Land Management oil and gas lease auction of 116 parcels of public land in Utah’s red rock country. Tim decided to take his protest…
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Remember The Glaciers
Read more: Remember The GlaciersRaising awareness about climate change; adapting he aesthetic of ‘eco-friendly’ to appeal to the iGeneration and uncountable generations to come. External sources: http://glacier996girl.tumblr.com https://instagram.com/glacier996girl/ https://www.facebook.com/remembertheglaciers
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World Without Oil
Read more: World Without OilWorld Without Oil (WWO) is an alternate reality game (ARG) created to call attention to, spark dialogue about, plan for and engineer solutions to a possible near-future global oil shortage, post peak oil. It was the creation of San Jose…
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Garbage Collectors
Read more: Garbage CollectorsAfrika ARTS Kollective is a group of artists that decided to face Uganda’s demographic growth and the garbage problem of the capital, Kamala, with art. 30,000 tons of residues come out of this monthly and the Administration is being working…
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Chipko Movement
Read more: Chipko MovementThe forests of India are a critical resource for the subsistence of rural peoples throughout the country, but especially in hill and mountain areas, both because of their direct provision of food, fuel and fodder and because of their role…
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Concrete Creek
Read more: Concrete CreekUtilizing excess construction cement that was being dumped into a creek near Beit Shemesh, Israel, Shai Zakai harnessed the unclaimed cement to create an art installation that brought awareness to the ongoing pollution. The project was entitled, ‘Concrete Creek’ aimed…