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Welcome to my Eco-Arts Blog! I am so excited to be a part of the Eco Arts Council of the Quad Cities (EACQC) and share our passion for the Arts and the Environment. 

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“Eco-Art:” Creating Environmentally-Friendly Art

The term environmental art can be used generally to refer to art dealing with ecological issues and/or the natural, such as the formal, the political, the historical, and or also the social context.

Environmentally friendly art, or ‘Eco-art,’ has been gaining popularity since the mid 1990’s among professional multimedia artists because of people’s new awareness and sensitivity to one of the largest, political issues in our world today. Eco Art is also a way for young budding artists and students to exercise advocacy and community service skills and create works that have greater meaning beyond personal self-expression.

There is new era in art  and its birth began with the mission to not only celebrate our planet but also to use art as an advocacy tool. This new genre of art meets at the intersection of Politics and Culture - where environmental concerns are on the rise and expressed on canvas and beyond; including the land itself. Many artists are interested in collaborating with a number of local organizations for the purpose of creating a range of projects designed to illustrate how artists and citizens from a broad spectrum of disciplines can work together and significantly celebrate, improve, and restore the local ecosystem.    
        
Eco-art Pedagogy as Eco-art Practice: At the heart of Eco-art practice is the desire to educate. One goal is to teach others to consider not only depicting the landscape and its inhabitants, but to engage in it as well. Community Eco-Artists should seek to be the expression of a community's personality - a communicator and facilitator of engaging its citizens in sharing of environmental concerns, opinions, reflections, reactions, questions and directions. The EACQC hopes continue to function long into the future as a sustainable entity for the support and promotion of Eco-artists as educators and in their personal work.