What is EcoArt?
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What is EcoArt?
EcoArt practice seeks to restore, protect and preserve the world for its own sake, and to mediate human/world relations to this end.
(Carruthers, 2006)
TreeLine aims to raise awareness of and evoke an emotional response to environmental issues through inter-disciplinary art practice.
TreeLine Aim
TreeLine projects will…
1.Identify and celebrate significant trees
2.Explore an environmental issue
3.Act out for the environment Lantana Wreath, Wendy McGrath
Valued by a school or kindy
What is a Significant Tree?
A tree of cultural heritage value
Bunya tree
A tree valued by neighbourhood or community
Moffat Beach Playground fig tree
A tree that characterises place
Cotton Tree, 1918
A commemorative tree or tree planting
Tree planting at Coolum, 1933
A tree important as part of an ecosystem
A tree in a significant location
Multi-arts Approach
Marion Gaemers, necklaces, Strand
Ephemera
Earth Song opening, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery
www.treeline.org.au
TreeLine Program
Lead Artist Program• Commissioned and
invited artists • Art in the environment • Exhibits in regional
galleries• Artists in Residence Keith Armstrong and James Muller
TreeLine Program
Community Program
• Workshops, happenings
• Selected community groups
• Palmwoods Piccabeen Celebration
• Barung Landcare’s Figs in the Forest Project
• Library program
TreeLine Program
TreeLine @ Program
Partnering with other events: • Bunya Festival• Eumundi Markets • SCRUFFFY Film Festival• Maleny Wood Expo• World Environment Day • Bankfoot House Open Day
Bunya Dreaming Festival
TreeLine ProgramTreeLine 4U – Get Involved
Projects developed by:• You• Schools• Individual artists• Community, environment
and heritage groups
Projects presented at treeline.org.au Community Project, Live Oak “Nest”
Hill of the Hawk, Big Sur, California
TreeLine Program
EcoArt Education• TreeLine website – www.treeline.org.au• EcoArt education materials online • Artists working with schools in and about the
environment • Tree Tales at the Book Farm• Artist in Residence – Currimundi Catchment
Care Group with schools• TreeMappa 2.0 with CQUniversity
Timeline• Present-January 2010 – fundraising, website,
eco-Art education, partnering.• December 2009 – Launch TreeLine Program • January 2010 – Launch at the Bunya Dreaming
Festival • February-May 2010 – Education and Community
program• 26 May to 4 July 2010 – Art in the environment
and projected exhibits in Caloundra and Noosa Regional Galleries and the Butter Factory, Cooroy.
TreeLine Legacy
• Online ecoArt education material
• Online documentation of TreeLine ecoArt projects
• Strengthened local art and environment networks
• Template for ecologically, economically and socially sustainable inter-disciplinary art event
Armstrong and Muller