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 out more ->
GALvanizing Ecoo-Responsibility
Crop Circles and Remediation Field
GAL is very grateful to the for the generous grant of $1500 to support the Alchemical Garden in 2011. These funds will help GAL to go forward this year with “Crop Circle and Remediation Field” our living art installation and soil remediation project.
Rubedo (Red) Permaculture Tree Guild
Become a co-creator in our community articulture project by joining our Alchemical Garden Work Party this Sunday, May 22nd from 12:00 – 3:00 .We will be sculpting serpentine mulch pathways and sprucing up the garden. Wear work clothes and, if you can, bring along a wheelbarrow, pitchfork or metal rake. GAL will provide light refreshments, eco and permaculture tips and levity.
As part of the Clipper City Rail Trail Birthday celebration, GAL will offer the rail trail celebrants the opportunity to “sow seeds for our sustainable future” through planting black Kabuli garbanzo beans, and soy beans in the Alchemical Garden. These legumes will nourish the depleted soil and provide an edible crop for the community.
The Alchemical Garden is located at the south entrance of the Clipper City Rail Trail, 40 Parker Street Newburyport, MA 01950 and straddles the Haley’s Bike Spur.
Waiting in line for junk food.
The ubiquitous plastic bottle in our landfills, watersheds, and elsewhere are the quintessential signifier of frivolous consumer waste and environmental pollution. Frogs are an important indicator species for crisis-level environmental degradation. The present epidemic of malformed, hermaphroditic and sterile frogs is the harbinger of zoological disaster.
GAL infiltrated Provincetown during the Provincetown Green Arts Festival with an ecovention spot lighting this dire consequence of waste and pollution on the New England environment. Continue reading ‘“Rites of Spring” Makes its Appearance in Provincetown.’