Environmental Performance Actions (EPA)
Exit Art, New York City
February – May, 2008

Inaugural exhibition for Social Environmental Aesthetics (SEA) program including more than thirty artists who present documentation of recent performance work globally that addresses current environmental crisis. Included panel discussion on Climate Change with artist Eve Mosher and scientist David VanLuven with the Nature Conservancy.

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Habitat For Artists

Beacon, New York   May 17-September 30
Invitational site-specific exhibition at Spire Studios where 6X6’ sheds are transformed into works of art. Initiated by artist Simon Draper In collaboration with ecoartspace.

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Silent Migration

NYC Central Park Arsenal Gallery
Exhibition and panel discussion with artist Brandon Ballengée in conjunction with ecoartspace, The Nature Conservancy, NYC Audubon in cooperation with NYC Parks and Recreation. Part of the Human/Nature: Art and the Environment series.

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Bioneers

Panel presentations and exhibition at annual conference of scientific and social innovators, Marin Center in San Rafael.

Eco-art Activists: Making the Invisible Visible

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Moving Beyond the Frame: Eco-Artists Facing Environmental Challenges

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WATERWORKS

Contemporary Quarterly, Volume 4
An exhibition of six ecologically engaged artists whose works focus on water issues including: Brandon Ballengée, Jackie Brookner, Basia Irland, Sant Khalsa, Christy Rupp, Tao Urban.

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Out of the Blue

Abington Art Center, March 4-May 6
An exhibition that focused on the dynamics of human creativity as a metaphor for geological and atmospheric phenomena including artists: Robert Smithson, Andra Zittel, Kiki Smith, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and others.

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Hybrid Fields

Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, CA 
September – December 2006
Group exhibition addressing our food systems including site-specific installations by Matthew Moore, Amy Franceschini, Ted Purves/Susanne Cockrell, Marisa Jahn/Stephen Shada, Susan Leibovitz Steinman, Laura Parker, Wowhaus and Fruta Gratis.

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WindsockCURRENTS: MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE

Crissy Field, San Francisco
June 1 - 30, 2005
Public art installation by R.T. Livingston and performance by Red Dive, addressing wind energy as renewable resource. Organized in partnership with UN World Environment Day in cooperation with the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

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Bug-Eyed: Art, Culture, Insects

Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, CA
6 August 2004 – 27 March 2005
Group exhibition with 29 artists including Alexis Rockman, Catherine Chalmers, Sam Easterson, Tom Friedman, Doug and Mike Starn, and Christy Rupp.

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Ecoartists: Engaging Communities in a New Metaphor

Essay for Art in the Public Interest (APInews), Issue #66, January 2005. Picked up by Utne Web Watch, February 3, 2005 issue, and Permaculture Activist: The Art of Permaculture, #62 Winter 2006.

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Trouble in Paradise

Group exhibition of 19 artists who focus on the loss of nature, presented at Van Brunt Gallery, New York City (2004), and Abington Art Center (2005). Exhibition also published in Orion magazine, September/October 2004. p. 48.

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Aesthetics of Ecology: Art in Environmental Design: Theory and Practice

Essay entitled "Ecoart: Ecological Art,"
by Amy Lipton and Patricia Watts. Edited by Heike Strelow. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2004. pp. 90–95.

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Imaging the River

Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
4 October 2003 – 27 May 2004
Exhibition of 23 contemporary artists whose works are joined together with contrasting historical views from the Hudson River School.

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Ecovention

Contemporary Art Center (CAC), Cincinnati, OH
June 22 – August 18
Exhibition of 32 artists including Joseph Beuys, Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), Agnes Denes, Helen and Newton Harrison, Patricia Johanson, Ocean Earth Development Corp. (Peter Fend), Robert Smithson, Alan Sonfist, Superflex, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Included site specific works in the greater Cincinnati area: artists working with community groups. 160-page exhibition catalogue

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