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Contemporary Environmental ArtSponsored by the Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness Program at CIIS
October 29 – December 14
CIIS Main Building, Third Floor
Reception and Panel Discussion With GreenMuseum.org Artists
Featuring Judith Selby Lang, Donna Keiko Ozawa, and Meadowsweet Dairy
Friday, November 30, 6:30–9pm
CIIS Main Building, Namaste Hall
Environmental art is at the forefront of contemporary art movements. With roots in the Land and Earth Art movements in the 1960s and ’70s, environmental art celebrates our connection to nature through beauty, science, metaphor, spirituality, and ecological restoration. It can encompass a surprising landscape of approaches, from ephemeral “art in nature” sculpture designed to last only a few hours before returning to the earth to community-based “eco-art” installations that clean up polluted watersheds and promote public understanding of local and global environmental issues. As a not-for-profit online museum (with an office in Marin County, California), greenmuseum.org transcends geography, highlighting a range of artworks and interconnecting the diverse practitioners of this exciting movement. The highlighted artworks in this exhibit are drawn from the global archives of greenmuseum.org and will be featured in a 2008 wall calendar. Sustaining Beauty provides a sampling of some of the latest developments in this field to stimulate the imagination and promote the role of art in the creation of a more sustainable world culture. http://www.greenmuseum.org
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