A Midsummer Night’s update
Ecoart Treasure Coast would like to offer our supporters a long overdue update on what we’ve been up to this summer.
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EcoArt Treasure Coast is an ongoing effort to create opportunities for public interaction with art to solve environmental problems. The Arts Council, Inc. of Martin County, in conjunction with the South Florida Environmental Arts Project...
Press Coverage of Ecoart Treasure Coast Project at FOS
Our first project proved to be a tremendous success!
In this age of Facebook and Twitter, we may sometimes forget to pick up the local paper. So in case you did…
Ecoart Treasure Coast to Participate in FOS Earth Day Celebration
As part of its philosophy that we should make Earth Day an “Earth Decade,” Ecoart Treasure Coast will install two floating islands on Saturday, April 24 in the saltwater lagoon at the Florida Oceanographic Institute on Hutchinson Island. The islands will be installed between noon and 5 p.m.
Suburban Subaru of Stuart Supplies EcoArt Treasure Coast with Subaru Legacy
Suburban Subaru of Stuart and Ed Vossen are providing EcoArt Treasure Coast’s mentor artist, Betsy Damon, with a hybrid Subaru Legacy for her visits to Stuart during the course of her work with the project.
A Big Thank You to Ram Real Estate!
Ram Realty Services has donated a studio space to Ecoart Treasure Coast, an ongoing effort to create opportunities for the community to interact with art to solve environmental problems.
Brazilian Pepper 101
The EcoArt Treasure Coast team took a boat ride through Four Rivers in Palm City last Saturday. Along the way, we noticed lots and lots of Brazilian Pepper.
Water as the Earth’s Blood
Viktor Schauberger called water “the blood of the Earth.”
He was concerned with both the quantity and quality of water. As Bartholomew writes: “Schauberger saw water as a pulsating, living substance that energizes all of life, both organic and inorganic.”
You can put water under a microscope and clearly see when water’s been damaged, by toxins or extreme temperatures. Indeed, water cannot be too cold or too hot.
At the same time, water must be allowed to flow naturally for it to form a vortex structure, where water’s “vitalizing energies” are produced.
Water as a connector
Our group has unofficially adopted the motto that “Water is Our Treasure.”
As we continue to ruminate on how we will incorporate water into our 2010 EcoArt projects, it is important for us to study and learn how other eco-artists have been influenced by water.
Meet the Apprentices
EcoArt Treasure Coast, an ongoing effort to create opportunities for the community to interact with art to solve environmental problems, has selected eight local artists for a year-long eco-art apprenticeship program to be led by internationally-recognized eco-artist Betsy Damon…
