Family Foundation

The New Childrenâ€™s Museum in San Diego: TRASH

December 8, 2012ecoartscotlandArts And Culture, Brent Woods, Changing Perspective, City Of San Diego, Commu, County Of San Diego, Environmental Impact, Family Foundation, Farrell Family, Fernanda, Glenn Carlson, Introductory Text, James Irvine Foundation, Maryanne, New Solutions, Nordstrom, Pfister, Prerogatives, Ralph Whitworth, Sdg, Tangible Connection

This post comes to you from EcoArtScotland

TRASH, Photo provided by New Childrenâ€™s Museum

The New Childrenâ€™s Museum in San Diego is doing a major exhibition on trash. Â The following is their introductory text.

The artists in TRASH, each with differing prerogatives and intentions, share the common desire to draw attention to an invisible issue that increasingly dominates our lives. Did you know that in the United States, annual production of waste has tripled since 1960? That the average American produces 4.5 pounds of trash every day? In this exhibition, our mission is to change how we see trash, and changing perspective starts by asking more questions.

How do we decide what is trash?
How does your trash impact the lives of others?
How can we imagine new possibilities, and a new future for our trash?

For nearly 100 years, artists have chosen to work with trash to create a tangible connection to everyday life and to reject the idea that making art requires precious or expensive materials. Today artists are also passionately interested in the environmental impact of their materials. Through their transformation of trash into art, our artists encourage you to envision trash as more than waste needing disposal. They want you to see possibilities where others see waste.

The future starts here at NCM. We want to empower kids to act as the agents of change at home, and we look to kids to find the new approaches, new ideas, and new solutions that will change our future.

TRASH is organized by The New Childrenâ€™s Museum and is made possible by the generosity of Laurie Mitchell & Brent Woods, Farrell Family Foundation, SDG&E, Lynne & Glenn Carlson, Maryanne & Irwin Pfister and Fernanda & Ralph Whitworth. Support is also provided by The James Irvine Foundation, Nordstrom, the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture, the County of San Diegoâ€™s Community Enhancement Program, and NCM members and Annual Fund donors.

ecoartscotland is a resource focused on art and ecology for artists, curators, critics, commissioners as well as scientists and policy makers. It includes ecoartscotland papers, a mix of discussions of works by artists and critical theoretical texts, and serves as a curatorial platform.

It has been established byÂ Chris Fremantle, producer and research associate withÂ On The Edge Research,Â Grayâ€™s School of Art, The Robert Gordon University. Fremantle is a member of a number of international networks of artists, curators and others focused on art and ecology.
Go to EcoArtScotland

Nevada Museum of Art

July 30, 2010newsAndy Rappaport, Art Environment, Catharine Clark Gallery, Chronicle Art Critic, Dauber, Educational Opportunities, European Artists, Family Foundation, Feature Gallery, Global Impacts, Industrial Consumption, Inflection, Intersections, Kenneth Baker, Lipman Family, M Robertson, Media Sponsorship, Museum Of Art, Natural Environment, Nevada Museum, Oil Paintings, Reno Tahoe, San Francisco Chronicle, Three Decades, Ticket Price

For Chester Arnold, painting is as much about social responsibility as it is about crafting luscious large-scale oil paintings in the tradition of 19th-century European artists. Since he began painting over three decades ago, Arnold has cleverly confronted a range of challenging subjects ranging from land use and environmental issues to the global impacts of human and industrial consumption, accumulation, and waste. The paintings united in this exhibition ask viewers to consider the implications of unchecked economic development and industrialized growth on the natural environment. Often, Arnold’s work is infused with a dose of religious or political inflection that generates passionate dialogue about the topics he tackles. “If this is God’s will,” Arnold once remarked while referring to one of the abused landscapes he depicted on canvas, “something is wrong.”

A special dialogue between San Francisco Chronicle Art Critic Kenneth Baker and Chester Arnold takes place Saturday, September 11 from 5:30 to 8 pm. Join Baker and Arnold as they discuss Arnoldâ€™s work on display in the Feature Gallery. A reception following dialogue is included in theÂ ticket price.

A 78-page book, published in conjunction with the exhibition, will be available in the Museum Store featuring essays by Ann M. Wolfe, Curator of Exhibitions and Collections and Colin M. Robertson, Curator of Education.

Chester Arnold: On Earth as It Is in Heaven is presented as part of the Museumâ€™s Art + Environment Series, which provides timely, engaging, and rewarding educational opportunities for artists, scholars, and communities to engage with ideas pertinent to the intersections of art and environments.

SPONSORSHIP:

Media Sponsorship forÂ Chester Arnold: On Earth as It Is in Heaven generously provided byÂ edible Reno-TahoeMagazine.

via Nevada Museum of Art.

EcoArtTech – Ecology, Art, and Technology

September 22, 2009newsColgate University, Downloadable Pdf, Ecology, Education Center, Energy Arts, Environmental Campus, Faculty Research Fellowship, Family Foundation, Generous Contributions, Green Energy, Hartwick College, K2, Net Art, Pdfs, Turbulence

WILD: The Conditions of Possibility for the Experience of Nature in the Everyday, 2009

Free Downloadable PDF at the link below.

This work is made possible in part by generous contributions from K2 Family Foundation, SolarOne Green Energy, Arts & Education Center, Colgate University and the Paul A. Garrison Faculty Research Fellowship, the Pine Lake Environmental Campus of Hartwick College, and a Turbulence Net Art Comission.

EcoArtTech | Ecology, Art, and Technology | PDFs.