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‘Alchemy’ Series Spearheads Conversations on Sustainable Art

Date:
Dec 18 2018

For one artist, the ugly and the beautiful are equivalent concepts. In 2018, designer and artist Choi Jeong Hwa featured an exhibition titled ‘Alchemy’ at The Artling where he uses recycled and non-biodegradable materials in his work that he has…

I’ve just received an honorary doctorate at 18 – but that doesn’t matter

Practitioner:
Scarlett Westbrook

Date:
Dec 18 2018

This week, I got to make history. At 18 years of age, I received an honorary doctorate from the University of London for my work in climate justice, making me the current youngest holder of the award globally. Having not…

Creative Sustainable Development Methods in Curitiba, Brazil

Practitioner:
Jaime Lerner

Date:
Dec 18 2018

In the 1970s, Jaime Lerner, the former mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, transformed six blocks of the main downtown shopping street into a pedestrian zone in 1972, despite fierce objections from the merchants. He quickly accomplished this change in just three…

Seaspiracy

Practitioner:
Ali Tabrizi

Date:
Dec 18 2018

“Seaspiracy, a documentary-styled film released on Netflix this week, intends to shock, and on that count it succeeds. The 90-minute exposé shows ocean pollution and its vast effects on marine life; it displays grotesque images of dolphins and whales being…

ECO Fashionable Collectibles- Made From Recycled Plastic

Practitioner:
Adeyemi Emmanuel

Date:
Dec 18 2018

In 2019, Adeyemi Emmanuel began collecting bits of discarded plastic and used them to make a backpack. Seeing a way to raise environmental awareness in fashion-conscious Nigeria, Emmanuel in November launched a line of bags, wallets and gift boxes made…

The Indigenous Wisdom Center on Pine Ridge

Practitioner:
The Oglala Lakota Cultural and Economic Revitalization Initiative

Date:
Dec 18 2018

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is home to the Oglala Lakota, designated as part of the Great Sioux Reservation. This land and its people have endured many tragedies at the hands of the United States government. Over 500 treaties negotiated in…

Arts Meets Environmental Activism in “The Crossroads Project”

Practitioner:
Laura Kaminsky, Rebecca Allan

Date:
Dec 18 2018

This month’s blast of arctic air may have roused climate-change skeptics. But the composer Laura Kaminsky and the painter Rebecca Allan were unfazed. Holed up in their apartment in Riverdale in the Bronx on one of the coldest days in…

Angel Azul

Practitioner:
Passelande Pictures

Date:
Dec 18 2018

Angel Azul is an environmental documentary that follows the work of eco-sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor. Jason creates artificial coral reefs from statues he’s cast from live models and installed on the ocean floor in an underwater museum off the coast…

One Dress Protest

Practitioner:
Kristy Powell

Date:
Dec 18 2018

Independent blogger, Kristy Powell, decided to begin a digital action, beginning on January 3rd, 2011 and ending on January 3rd, 2012, where she would wear one dress for an entire year to call attention to the politics of fashion’s dominance…

Lixo Extraordinário

Practitioner:
ACAMJG, Vik Muniz

Date:
Dec 18 2018

Over the course of 3 years, from 2006 until 2009, the production team behind the film Wasteland (2010), also known as “Lixo Extraordinário” followed Brazilian, Brooklyn-based mixed-media artist, Vik Muniz, as he traveled back to Brazil to create self portraits…