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Abeles, Kim Los Angeles, California, USA KAbeles100@aol.com

Arnold, Mary Teaneck, New Jersey, USA mary.arnoldmba@verizon.net http://www.teaneckcreek.org/ My career for two decades has been working with communities, nonprofits, conservation agencies, and local governments on the development and implementation of natural resources conservation projects, including the revitalization of urban watersheds and parks. I became the first executive director of the nonprofit Teaneck Creek Conservancy, Inc. in January 2003. My mission at the Conservancy has been to help a family foundation, artist in residence, community groups, and local governments implement community-based plans to transform a historic dumpsite at the intersection of I-80 and the New Jersey Turnpike into a new county park (excerpted from "Maintenance of Eco-Art Restoration Projects" on greenmuseum.org).

Audrey, Laura Indian Hills, Colorado, USA jangla@earthlink.net http://laurajaudrey.com top

Ball, Lillian New York City, New York, USA ballstudio@thing.net http://lillianball.com

Ballengée, Brandon obsoletestudios@gmail.com

Benton, Suzanne suzannemasks@sbcglobal.net

Bolender, Karin rural Georgia, U.S.A. mud@aliassxing.net http://www.aliassxing.net Karin Bolender’s work in embodied poetics explores the seams between landscapes (all the faunal, floral, and mineral forms that inhabit them) and human acts of memory and imagination. Her main investigations involve collaborative roadside journeys with assorted humans and other spectacular animals (very especially two American Spotted she-Asses, Aliass and Passenger) in the rural American South (including “The Dead-Car Crossing” in 2004 and the “’Can We Sleep in Your Barn Tonight?’ MYSTERY TOUR” in 2006). Present practice includes slow-ass roping and riding tricks that involve special kinds of attention to the local bioregion, in an ongoing series of time- and place-based performances called “The Dive Rodeo.”

Boettger, Suzaan suzannboettger@earthlink.net

Botzow, Bill Bennington, Vermont, USA botzow@sover.net www.5points.com www.artistsandcommunities.org

Bower, Sam Corte Madera, California, USA Sam@greenmuseum.org http://greenmuseum.org

Brookner, Jackie New York City, New York, USA jbrookn@aol.com http://jackiebrookner.net top

Collins, Tim Wolverhampton, UK timcollins@wlv.ac.uk http://slaggarden.cfa.cmu.edu http://3r2n.cfa.cmu.edu

Carruthers, Beth Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK beth@bethcarruthers.com www.bethcarruthers.com www.songbirdproject.ca www.culturalcurrency.ca Co-founder and past Creative Director of the Society for Arts & Ecology in Practice (originally the SongBird project) and former Director of Exposure Gallery, Beth Carruthers is an internationally exhibited artist and writer whose investigation of the culture/nature relationship spans more than 20 years. She works in visual and interactive media, and her works reside in private collections throughout Europe, North America and the UK. As well as working as consultant and collaborator with arts, environmental and community groups, Beth lectures internationally on EcoARTS theory and practice.

Cutler-Shaw, Joyce San Diego California, USA jcutlershaw@earthlink.net http://joycecutlershaw.com top

Betsy Damon New York City, New York and Longmont, Colorado, USA bdamon7367@aol.com http://keepersofthewaters.org

Dawley, Mo Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Art and Drama Librarian Carnegie Mellon University md2z@andrew.cmu.edu http://www.greenarts.org

Dietzler, Georg Cologne, Germany welcome@dietzlerge.org http://www.dietzlerge.org top

ecoartspace Amy Lipton amy@ecoartspace.org Tricia Watts tricia@ecoartspace.org ecoartspace was founded in 1997 by Tricia Watts in Los Angeles. It was the first website online dedicated to ecoart in 1998. In 1999, Amy Lipton in New York joined with Watts to become a bicoastal nonprofit under the umbrella of SEE, the Social and Environmental Entrepeneurs. ecoartspace works internationally with artist practitioners and organizations to present aesthetic interventions that inspire individuals and communities into action when addressing environmental issues.

Elmansoumi, Deirdre San Francisco, California, USA deirdree@urbanwildlife.org

Engler, Mira Ames, Iowa, USA miraengler@iastate.edu

Eyler, Carolyn Gorham, Maine, USA Director of Exhibitions and Programs Department of Art, University of Southern Maine ceyler@maine.edu http://www.usm.maine.edu/~gallery/info top

Fielder, Erica Mendocino, California, USA efielder@mcn.org http://ericafielder-ecoartist.com http://birdfeederhat.org/

Flom, Stephanie Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA Persephone/ArtGardens Project STUDIO for Creative Inquiry College of Fine Arts Carnegie Mellon University persephone@andrew.cmu.edu http://persephoneproject.org/

Fremantle, Chris Glasgow, Scotland http://chris.fremantle.org Chris Fremantle is a Cultural Historian. He is Arts Links Officer for South Ayrshire Council, responsible for developing arts & learning. Up until a couple of years ago he was Director of the Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW). SSW is a client funded organisation of the Scottish Arts Council and recently celebrated its 25th anniversary. Whilst Director of SSW, Chris re-developed the organisation as an international residency centre. Chris is an external research associate with On The Edge Research at Gray’s School of Art, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. He has co-authored/ co-presented papers with Dr. Anne Douglas, Senior Research Fellow and lead researcher, most recently at the Sensuous Knowledge Conference organised by the Bergen National Academy of the Arts (KhiB). He works with a wide range of artists facilitating research, debate, collaboration and practice. The recurring focus of his work has been issues of culture, environment and the role of the artist. top

Gaudreau, Tim Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA tim@wake-up.ws http://www.wake-up.ws Gaudreau combines photography with video, new media, graphics and sculpture to create public art advocating for greater environmental responsibility and awareness of eco-issues. Gaudreau uses collaboration and interaction as a vehicle to stimulate audience engagement and move beyond passive observation.

Geffen, Amara Meadville, Pennsylvania, USA ageffen@alltel.net http://ceed.allegheny.edu/A&E/home.html Amara partners with students (k-CEO), local communities, and state and local agencies to develop community based public art that promotes regional revitalization and beautification leading to increased environmental awareness. Projects demonstrate creative reuse, community building and creation of a sense of place, while emphasizing sustainable practices.

Reiko Goto Wolverhampton, UK rcgoto@andrew.cmu.edu http://3r2n.cfa.cmu.edu http://slaggarden.cfa.cmu.edu

Grant, Jean Liverpool, England, UK info@site-sight.demon.co.uk http://www.site-sight.demon.co.uk

greenmuseum.org Sam Bower Corte Madera, California, USA Sam@greenmuseum.org top

Haley, David Manchester, UK Research Development Coordinator Arts for Health / Water & Well-Being Faculty of Art & Design, Manchester Metropolitan University d.haley@mmu.ac.uk

Harrison, Helen Mayer and Newton Santa Cruz, California, USA harrstudio@aol.com

Heim, Wallace Cumbria,UK home@wallaceheim.com http://greenmuseum.org/c/enterchange/ Wallace Heim is an independent curator. She co-edited Nature Performed. Environment, Culture and Performance (2003. Oxford: Blackwell), contributing a chapter on ‘Slow Activism’ and the work of PLATFORM. She has also written on the work of Shelley Sacks and Basia Irland for Performing Nature. Explorations in ecology and performance (2005. Bern, Peter Lang) . She co-curated the conference/event BETWEEN NATURE: Explorations in Ecology and Performance, at Lancaster University, 2000. She is completing a Ph.D. in philosophy at Lancaster University, researching performance and nature, following a career as a sculptor and set designer.

Hinrichsen, Sonja sonja@s-hinrichsen.net www.sonja-hinrichsen.net My works are art/research projects in which I examine natural, urban and industrial environments and respond to my perceptions of them. I map them photographically, with video and sound recordings, while at the same time researching their specifics. These may be historical details, Native American stories, cultural, societal, anthropological backgrounds and/or aspects of natural history. With the materials collected during my mappings and the results of my studies I create media installations using video projections, sound collages and narrative. I have recently experimented with subtle interventions directly in nature, using nature elements as my material. Since I have lived most of my life in Europe, the vast lands spreading across the American continent are exciting to me, so is their short and eventful history and the rapid transformations they have undergone within only a few centuries. I am particularly drawn to extreme landscapes, in an ecological, climatic, topographical, geographical sense. I am interested in human impacts on natural environments, as well as man's perception of and relationship to the land in different cultures and throughout history.

Hull, Lynne Fort Collins, Colorado, USA Lynne.Hull@eco-art.org http://www.eco-art.org top

Israeli Forum for Ecological Art (See Shai Zakai below) Non-Profit Association Forum@eco-art.co.il Lion, P.O.B 92 Israel 99835 http://www.eco-art.co.il/forum.asp?CL=ENG Tel- 972-2-9912153 Mobile - 972-505-924223 top

Kennedy, Deborah San Jose, California, USA djkennedyart@yahoo.com http://codesign.scu.edu/dkweb/

Khalsa, Sant San Bernardino, California, USA California State University, San Bernardino San Bernardino, CA santk@csusb.edu http://www.santkhalsa.com

Krug, Don Vancouver, BC Faculty of Education Department of Curriculum Studies University of British Columbia don.krug@ubc.ca http://cust.educ.ubc.ca/faculty/dr_don_krug.htm http://www.dkrug.com/davis/ top

LaCombe, June Pownal, Maine, USA jlacombe@maine.rr.com

Lerner, Susan Bar Harbor, Maine USA Faculty in Literature and Arts College of the Atlantic Slerner@coa.edu http://coa.edu/ecoart

Lipton, Amy ecoartspace New York City, New York, USA amy@ecoartspace.org http://www.ecoartspace.org top

Mathew, Debbie Laramie, Wyoming, USA debbiemathew@aol.com http://www.debbiemathew.biz Mathew’s experiential installation work moves participants beyond “normal” space and time, towards recognition of the interconnectedness of all life. Her community work focuses on developing opportunities for citizens to connect with nature through habitat restoration, ecological interpretive art and the creation of labyrinths.

Mazeaud, Dominique Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA heartistdm@aol.com http://earthheartist.com/

Merriman, Connie McKeesport, Pennsylvania, USA cm9a@andrew.cmu.edu

Miller, Kathryn Upland, California, USA Kathryn_miller@pitzer.edu http://greenmuseum.org/miller

Mills, Richard Kirk Teaneck, New Jersey, USA rmills@liu.edu http://richardkirkmills.com I am an environmental artist and educator. My work attempts to reconnect people to fragmented landscapes and abused urban places through a responsive public art process of narrative, interpretation, education and community engagement. I use graphics, placemaking strategies, landscape design, sculpture, restoration processes and above all, collaborate across disciplines with partners. top

Naidus, Beverly Vashon Island, Washington, USA bnaidus@u.washington.edu http://www.artsforchange.org Beverly Naidus, activist artist, writer, and educator, is currently writing, OUTSIDE THE FRAME: TEACHING ART FOR SOCIAL CHANGE to be published by New Village Press (Oakland, CA) in 2008-9. Her audience-participatory, site-specific installations have focused on nuclear nightmares, environmental illness and disasters, unemployment, body image, racism and cultural identity, the rewards and perils of being an activist, and utopic dreams for the future. She is the author/artist of two artist's books, ONE SIZE DOES NOT FIT ALL and WHAT KINDA NAME IS THAT?. Her projects CANARY NOTES: THE PERSONAL POLITICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESS and its sequel, NUKED NOTES: JOURNEY OF A FREE RADICAL continue to manifest and grow. She speaks about and exhibits her work internationally, and her work is discussed in books by Lucy R. Lippard, Suzi Gablik, Paul Von Blum and Lisa Bloom. She currently co-facilitates a program in Arts in Community as part of the Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences program at the University of Washington in Tacoma, WA. top

Oakes, Baile Westport, California, USA oakes@mail.mcn.org

Orenstein, Gloria F. Los Angeles, California, USA Prof. Comp. Lit. and Gender Studies, University of Southern California orenstei@usc.edu Gloria Orenstein received her Ph.D. in 1971 from NYU, a Masters in 1961 from Radcliffe, and a BA in 1959 from Brandeis. She is a tenured professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, where she also works in Gender Studies. She has previously taught at Douglass College of Rutgers University, and organized the NYC Women's Salon in the 1970s. She is active in the field of ecofeminism, and has published numerous articles on literature, art, ecofeminism, shamanism and religion. Her books published include Multicultural Celebrations: The Paintings of Betty LaDuke (1993), The Reflowering of the Goddess (1990), Reweaving the World: The Emergence of Ecofeminism (1990), and The Theater of the Marvelous: Surrealism and the Contemporary Stage (1975). top

Rahmani, Aviva Vinalhaven Island, Maine USA ghostnet@foxislands.net http://www.ghostnets.com

Robinson, Cynthia Eco Art a la carte Moultonborough, New Hampshire, USA cynthia@ecoartalacarte.com www.ecoartalacarte.com www.cynthiarobinson.net I am interested in exploring culturally composted landscapes, dissecting the historical, social, ecological elements of the site, collaborating with community, and creating an ecologically sensitive work. With a background in painting, collage, sculpture, writing, art education, and school arts enrichment program development, my approach is multidisciplinary. My work through Eco Art a la Carte aims to make closer connections between children, their communities, and their environment through hands-on learning activities.

Rosen-Queralt, Jann Baltimore, Maryland, USA jann@jannrosen-queralt.com http://jannroen-queralt.com Rosen-Queralt creates site-integrated work that reveals the character of a place and its users by integrating existing site context and conditions, cultural influences and community. Recurring subjects in her work are metaphors for the human condition and environmental health. The character of her ideas combine the "way things work," synthesthesia and poetic materiality. These are developed through in-depth collaborations with design professionals, scientists, engineers, fabricators and communities.

Rosenthal, Ann Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA atrart@earthlink.net http://studiotara.net Rosenthal brings to the art community 20 years experience as an eco/community artist, educator, and writer. River Vernacular, her collaborative installation with Steffi Domike, was commissioned by the Hudson River Museum for Imaging the River (2003-04). This series of river postcards interpreting northeastern post-industrial landscapes was exhibited at Gallerie Sensenci, Japan (August 2005). A second exhibition with Stephen Moore, Tree: The Numazu Suite was featured at the Numazu Shinkin Bank Street Gallery. The artist’s collaborative community arts project, Envisioning McKeesport was featured in Groundworks at Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University in October 2005 and includes a catalog. The project will be included in Avant Guardians by Linda Weintraub (forthcoming)

Rupp, Christy New York City, New York, USA christyrupp@earthlink.net http://www.christyrupp.com Rupp has focused on the relationship of ecology and economics, looking at topics like genetically engineered foods, globalization and the commodification of natural resources. The work seeks to engage viewers through the use of humor and ironic objects. top

Sacks, Shelley Headington, Oxford UK Social Sculpture Research Unit School of Art, Publishing and Music Oxford Brookes University ssacks@brookes.ac.uk http://www.exchange-values.org

Patricia Sanders San Jose, California, USA sandersp@email.sjsu.edu

Social Sculpture Research Unit (See Shelley Sacks above) Oxford, England, UK social.sculpture@brookes.ac.uk http://www.social-sculpture.org

Staab, Roy F. West Allis, Wisconsin, USA roystaab@yahoo.com http://greenmuseum.org/staab “Roy Staab's earth-sensitive site-specific installations use locally available materials and result in ephemeral earthworks that devolve back into nature. Set into nature, they provide a rational counter-structure that edifies the viewer. The effect is one of holding a mirror to nature, reminding us of the context within which the artwork resides.” (John K. Grande)

Steinman, Susan Leibovitz Oakland, California, USA SLSteinman@aol.com http://SteinmanStudio.com

Sterns, Ginny ginnystearns@aol.com

Sustaining Life Project (see Shelley Sacks above) Oxford, England, UK sustaining.life@brookes.ac.uk http://www.sustaining-life.org top

Thompson, Diana Lynn Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada dee@dianathompson.net www.dianathompson.net top

Jeroen van Westen Enschede, The Netherlands jeroen@jeroenvanwesten.nl www.jeroenvanwesten.nl My goal is to present the origins of a landscape in such a way that (re)interpretation of the environment becomes possible by taking the locally encountered relationship between Nature and Culture as subject. The resulting works can take the form of temporary installations/performances, books, permanent constructions, but mostly the public space, the landscape itself, becomes material for a meaningful (re)design. Critical explorations into the qualities of urban or rural landscape form the point of departure. Each work is site specific inviting cultural self reflection by uncovering cultural history and creating favorable conditions for nature to re-establish in a better readable landscape.

Wallen, Ruth San Diego, California, USA rwallen@ucsd.edu http://communication.ucsd.edu/rwallen

Watts, Tricia ecoartspace Sebastopol, California, USA tricia@ecoartspace.org http://www.ecoartspace.org Tricia Watts is founder and West Coast curator of ecoartspace, the first ecoart resource online since 1998. Watts was recently hired as Chief curator for the Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa, California with the programmatic focus of "Where Land Meets Art." The Museum has one of the largest collections of preparatory works by environmental artists Christo and Jean Claude, who staged the Running Fence in Sonoma County in 1976. Watts is available to give lectures, write essays, curate exhibitions internationally, and design art/ecology education programs.

Weintraub, Linda Rhinebeck, New York, US artnow@juno.com www.LindaWeintraub.com www.Avant-Guardians.com Linda Weintraub is the author of Avant-Guardians: Texlets on Ecology and Art (2006 - ongoing) and founder of Artnow Publications. The series takes the form of short textlets that facilitate the integration of ecology into college art instruction. Environmental considerations led to the text’s innovative design and distribution. Weintraub previously wrote In The Making: Creative Options for Contemporary Artists (2003) and Art on the Edge and Over: Searching for Art’s Meaning in Contemporary Society (1995).  She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Rutgers University and lectures frequently on contemporary art and its intersection with ecology.

Wells, Shan Durango, Colorado, USA shan@animas.net www.shanwells.com I am drawn by things felt deeply in the heart, but not transferable through any media. Situations occur in which I'm acting as a sampler of material, an assayer, compiler, or comparer. Natural geometries often occur in my work, implying both structured nature and human invention. I believe there is a creative force that runs through human culture, thought, and expression. The expression of this force is not limited solely to our species. Elephants draw it, orca sing it, and bower birds sculpt it. The forms made by animals are therefore a source of inspiration to me as well.

Wilkison, Don Independence, Missouri, USA wilkison@usgs.gov

Womens Environmental Artists Directory/ WEAD Oakland, California, USA http://weadartists.org top

Zakai, Shai Lion, Israel Israeli Forum For Ecological Art (artist & chairperson) shai-stu@inter.net.il shai@eco-art.co.il http://www.eco-art.co.il http://www.greenmuseum.org/zakai Photographer and an ecological artist, director and founder of "The Israeli Forum for Ecological Art", Shai Zakai creates installations and multi-media to react upon ecological and environmental issues. She is involved in public art that includes reclamation and/or responses to damaged areas. Zakai works as a lecturer and curator of photography and eco-art, and she owns the Photography and Eco-art Centre. Zakai is the author and photographer of 'Faces and Facets' (1994 ), which represented Israel for its 50th anniversary in the U.S.A.; winner of the second Biennale prize for photography at the Ein Harod Museum of Art (1988); and winner of the "Artist-Teacher Prize" for 2000-01 from the ministry of Science and Culture. Her ongoing eco-art project "Concrete Creek 1999-2002" has been presented and exhibited in U.S.A., Germany, South Africa, Japan and Israel. Zakai has exhibited in some 40 group and 21 solo exhibitions. top

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