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New Hampshire Sunday News (Manchester, NH) April 25, 2010
This eco-artist lives green
By JIM KOZUBEK
Special to the Sunday News
PORTSMOUTH
IT WAS LATE February, the winter light pale and snow remained in dirty patches. Tim Gaudreau emerged from a reconverted barn turned art studio on this old farmstead on Jones Avenue, carrying a pile of firewood, and smiling big. His biggest problem — he was running out of vegetables. ”By this time of year, it’s running out,” he announced. Gaudreau is a vegetarian, and he grows most of his own food in an extensive raised-bed garden in his backyard, which he stores to eat in the winter. Squash, onions, carrots, and a pumpkin was turned into a pumpkin bisque with roasted potatoes. Chickens squabble and shuffle in coops behind his studio, of which he uses to harvest eggs on a daily basis, but he doesn’t eat doesn’t eat them. “They’re pets,” he says. “They’re our friends.”
Exciting News!! GAL founder andCo-director Erin Stack is one of only 32 artists internationally who have been tapped to contribute to a magnificent green arts fundraising project!!
Supported in part by a grant from the Newburyport Cultural Council, GAL collage artist Pamela Perkins will conduct five weekday workshops during April school vacation. Students will work in teams to create four large Art-Pots which will later be planted and installed in a shared community garden. This is the beginning of GAL’s “Articulture #3”—a series of ongoing projects.
Called “Flower Power,” the workshop utilizes drawing, painting, decoupage and collage techniques. Participants will visually explore the world of “plant guilds,” permaculture and edible flowers, and upon completion, each pot will represent the horticultural science of the plants growing in them–how they’re working together to create and sustain a healthy environment.
Installation at Maudslay Sculpture Show - Summer 2008
“The Truth will set you free”. Tapping into people’s guilt and denial of poor environmental behavior, GAL offered the public to “come clean” by giving public “eco-confessions”.The participants were asked to write confessions on used clothing and hang them on a publicly displayed laundry line. As viewers read the “eco-confessions” of others, they often recognized their own less-than-green lifestyle. GAL engaged in dialogue with the “eco-confessors,” brainstorming solutions for positive change. The playful and supportive atmosphere of “Air Your Dirty Laundry” allowed people to look honestly at their consumption habits and empowered them to change.
(Photo above taken by Eva Maria Lee. All photos below taken by Tim Gaudreau.)
