The Green Artists League (GAL) is an interdisciplinary artists' collective
that creates public art addressing the
global environmental crisis. GAL is a forum of contemporary artists exploring
art and ethics in an era of ecological degradation. GAL engages
the public through interactive art experiences and hopes to raise awareness
and inspire environmentally healthy behaviors and attitudes. Find
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GAL will be roaming the streets of Provincetown with an eco-intervention that highlights the consequences of waste and pollution on the New England environment. Our giant frog – mutated by water-born toxins with multiple flailing arms and legs – has awakened form winter hibernation and needs food.
Our tragic hero will engage passers-by and crowds as he moves through the festival begging for sustenance in the form of plastic bottles. Ubiquitous plastic bottles act as the signifier of frivolous consumer waste and environmental pollution, while our indigenous frog, an important indicator species for crisis-level environmental degradation is the harbinger of zoological disaster. For more information on “Appearances” and the Provincetown Green Arts Festival go to .
In the spring of 2008, The Green Artists League became one of the first participants in The New Eden Collaborative – the central environmental mission of the First Parish Church of Newbury.
High Rise Nesting Co-op boxes and Radient City Hen House
First Parish’s goal of bring together individuals and environmental groups to develop sustainable community through organic community gardens, organic chicken co-op, and organic CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and community events was fertile ground for GAL’s first Articulture project.
The participatory art projects at New Eden is the first of GAL’s 3 ”Articulture” community art projects.
GAL inspired projects at the New Eden Collaborative from 2009-2011 include:
2009-2010 New Eden Organic Community Garden Plot created by GAL artist/architect Stephenie Strogney and myself. The garden was designed to break the utilitarian grid of traditional community gardens to cultivate the contemplative and relational aspects of gardening and community. Plots were clustered into “neighborhoods” and paths were configured as to require the walk to turn several times to get to the other side of the garden as a way to increase awareness of time and place.
