Update: So delighted to share the new book "Plasticity of the Planet: On Environmental Challenge for Art and Its Institutions" designed byĀ Honza ZamojskiĀ published byĀ MousseĀ has been nominated for two categories for Polish Graphic Design Award: "Publication of the Year" and "Project of the Year"!Ā https://www.polishgraphicdesign.com/2019/projekt2019 Yesterday, I had another request for more information about The Hollywood Forest…Read more Plasticity of the Planet: Environmental Challenge for Art and Its Institutionsāfor the Symbiocene
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Innovative 6-week online ‘Ecoliteracy course for Creatives and Art Educators’āseen as a success on Earth Day 2020
This post is from my Haumea Ecoliteracy for the Arts site from a few weeks ago: I have been so busy the last few months in launching my first pilot online course. As I’m just about to launch my next pilot course I thought my followers would like to hear how it went.
ABOVE: āThe Rapunzel Treeā ā new painting courtesy of Irish artist Rachel Webb, April 2020
In this planetary pause, there is more awareness that we need to live well with the Earthās wider community of life. Creative practicesāinformed by ecoliteracy (ecological knowledge)āwill have important social power to invite society to reflect and reimagine the better world we know is possible. Cathy Fitzgerald PhD., launched an innovative 6-week online ecoliteracy course for creatives that coincided with the pandemic. She reflects now that an accessible and engaging ecoliteracy education for our art sector shouldnāt cost the Earth.
āToday, is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, and Iām hosting the final live Zoom meeting of my pilot 6-week ecoliteracy for creatives course. My course has been timelyāI have found a relatively low-cost means to share my eco-social art practice experience and knowledge of advances in the art and ecology area in anā¦
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