What is "Environmental Art"?

Artwork created by artists concerned with the state of our environment worldwide, and with their local situation. Environmental artists often work in these ways:

• Artists interpret nature, creating artworks to inform us about nature and its processes, or about environmental problems we face
• Artists interact with environmental forces, creating artworks affected or powered by wind, water, lightning, even earthquakes
• Artists re-envision our relationship to nature, proposing through their work new ways for us to co-exist with our environment
• Artists reclaim and remediate damaged environments, restoring nature in artistic and often aesthetic ways

Colorado artist Lynne Hull has pioneered "trans-species" art, creating sculpture installations as wildlife habitat enhancement, eco-atonement for human impact. She works from the belief that artist creativity can be effectively applied to the urgent situations we face today.

Lynne has worked in the American West with a variety of wildlife agencies including state wildlife departments, the Forest Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and National Park Service. She has worked in 14 states and 8 countries, with a wide variety of wildlife agencies and communities. In 1998 she worked in Yucatan and Chiapas, Mexico with environmental NGO Pronatura. In 1993-94 she realized three projects in the U.K. courtesy of a special Fulbright Fellowship and one in Kenya on a Lila Wallace/Reader's Digest Foundation/Arts International Residency. Currently she is working on "Migration Mileposts", linking communities in the hemisphere who share migratory birds, and she recently completed "East Drake Pondworks", a major Art in Public Places for the city of Fort Collins, CO where she lives.

Her client list includes hawks, eagles, pine martin, osprey, owls, spider monkeys, salmon, butterflies, bees, frogs, toads, newts, bats, beaver, songbirds, otter, rock hyrax, small desert species, waterfowl and occasional humans.

For further information
- see websites:
www.greenmuseum.org, www.greenarts.org, www.ecoartspace.org
- see books:
ECOVENTION, EARTHWORKS AND BEYOND (latest edition),
SCULPTING WITH THE ENVIRONMENT
(also excellent bibliography on www.greenarts.org)