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June 14, 2022February 7, 2023 about, art and ecology, art and ecology theory, art and environment, art and forests, Art and Nature, art and trees, Burren College of Art, Cathy's work, eco art | eco-social art practice, eco-social-art practice, ecoart, Environmental artist, Joanna Macy, PhD by Practice, PhD_by_Practice, publications, Seminars | Conferences, Sharing the Hollywood Story, Symbiocene, Writings 1 Comment 2022 Action Research Burren College of Art Cathy Fitzgerald classroom exercises ecoart Ecoart in Action ecoart pedagogies ecological art ecopedagogy ecosocial art practice Eileen Hutton environmental art projects Guattari handbook Hollywood Forest Story Ireland lucy lippard New Village Press textbook

Learning from The Hollywood Forest Story in new EcoArt in Action handbook

Fantastic to have this amazing book to hand, and many congratulations to the editors and contributors. Wonderful to know The Hollywood Forest Story is in it too - the trees do seem pleased 😉 EcoArt in Action : Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations for Classrooms and Communities, New Village Press, 2022–EcoArt in Action: Activities, Case…Read more Learning from The Hollywood Forest Story in new EcoArt in Action handbook

May 13, 2020July 15, 2020 Art & Ecology opportunities, art and ecology, art and ecology theory, art and environment, Art and Nature, art and science, Art communication, Courses, drawing, eco-social-art practice, ecoart, Haumea, International, Ireland, Joanna Macy, music and ecology, news Leave a comment art Art in the Anthropocene Cathy Fitzgerald culturedeclares ecoart ecoliteracy ecological art education HaumeaOnline Ireland learn learn from home learnfromhome Nikos Patedakis online course Rachel Webb

Innovative 6-week online ‘Ecoliteracy course for Creatives and Art Educators’–seen 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.

November 11, 2019February 13, 2023 about, art and ecology, art and environment, art and forests, Cathy's work, Close to Nature continuous cover forest management, Continuous cover forestry training | learning, eco art | eco-social art practice, eco-social-art practice, ecoart, Environmental artist, Hollywood video posts, Ireland, Joanna Macy, journal, people adopting Close-to-Nature forestry, ProSilva Ireland, Sharing the Hollywood Story, Writings 2 Comments anthropocene Cathy Fitzgerald contemporary art continuous cover forestry culturedeclares David Haley eco-social-art practice ecohumanities ecological art forests Harrisons Ireland Joanna Macy phdchat social art practice socially-engaged art

The Hollywood Forest Story—Eco-Social Art Practice for the Symbiocene: a new article for US Minding Nature journal

I was thrilled and a little bit nervous to be asked to write an article about Hollywood Forest and my creative practice for the US Minding Nature journal over the summer. MINDING NATURE is a journal exploring conservation values and the practice of ecological democratic citizenship I have been following this fantastic multidisciplinary journal for…Read more The Hollywood Forest Story—Eco-Social Art Practice for the Symbiocene: a new article for US Minding Nature journal

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Dr Cathy Fitzgerald practices ecological art as a practitioner, educator, blogger and researcher. She is an Irish-based New Zealander living in rural Ireland, the home of her ancestors. Since the mid-90s, her work with the pioneering Irish forest NGO Crann, then later with ProSIlva Ireland (2009-2023) inspired her long interest in the developing art and ecology field.

Over time, Cathy recognised the enormous cultural shift an ecological worldview represents to education and for the creative sector in particular. An informed ecoliterate creative sector will have a crucial role to inspire communities to live well with others and their environments. Importantly, Creativity has inclusive and imaginative means to explore new expansive values for living sustainably that science and politics are failing to achieve.

Cathy's expertise as an educator and mentor arises from firsthand experiences: having a prior background in science; overcoming the learning and practical challenges in developing an internationally recognised and rewarding ecological art practice (her ongoing creative forest restoration practice Hollywoodforest.com); reviewing ecological art practice research in detail for her practice-led PhD, and her considerable experience in professional development for all art forms as the inaugural ArtLinks Director for the SE County Arts Offices (2007-2010).

In addition, Cathy is an accredited sustainability-systems educator, having completed the UNESCO-recognised ESD (education for sustainable development)-Earth Charter programme in 2021, enabled by an Irish Arts Council 2020 Professional Development Award.

Since her PhD, Cathy has developed considerable experience in training over 150 mid-career creatives from Ireland and abroad in all creative fields, in transformative ecological literacy (ecoliteracy) and integrated ecosocial values courses through her unique online Haumea Ecoversity. Given the urgency of responding to the ecological emergency (to addressing environmental and social concerns), ecoliteracy training is essential to empower, inform and guide creative workers, curators, and cultural policy writers in becoming fluent in the values, ideas and actions needed to advance broader concepts of personal, collective and planetary wellbeing. Cathy also enjoys one-to-one mentoring.

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Founder-Director: Haumea Ecoversity Community since 2019
Member of the: International EcoArt Network
Member of Pro Silva (for forests) Ireland
Member of the: International Climate Cultures Network
Member of BurrenBeoTrust
Ecoliteracy Advisor/ Ecological Artist: CREATIVE DRUMMIN Bog programme since 2017 – DRUIMÍN CHRUTHAITHEACH
Ecoliteracy Ecological Art Mentor: Glenbower Wood This/Our Project 2025, Killeagh, East Cork

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