Author Archive for erin

Air Your Dirty Laundry Inspires Next Generation

GAL inspires student artist

m curtis globalization poster copyright m curtis

Michelle Curtis,  a freshmen at Stonehill College was inspired by GAL visiting artists interative Air your Dirty Laundry.”GAL recently recieved a note from her: “I am a graphic design major at Stonehill and I wanted to share with you  an environmental poster that i did for my graphic design class because you were the inspiration for it. We had to pick an organization that would have supported us if the poster were actually produced by a company. I chose The Green Artists League to support my poster about recycling. The main point of the poster was to show the viewers that there are more than one way to recycle. We are able to recycle trash into art. Please see the attached poster that i did for my class. Thank you for your inspiration.

GAL salutes you! You go Michelle!

The Frog Prince: A Fairy Terror in Boston

frog super scareBoston, MA

ON August 22, the Green Artists League participated in Acteon’s Wake, A Bike Ride and Site-Specific Performance Event across Boston, curated by Andrew Barco and Ion Colon. Participating Artists included Maria Molteni, Siri Gossman, Allison Vanouse, Patrick Wallace, Green Artists League, Ben Smart

The Green Artists League performance was a perverse revision of the children’s fairy tale the Frog Prince. The audience became an integral part of !cid_D61BA755-8FD8-4C01-9A94-715B2275AC28@ne1_client2_attbithe performance as they were entreated to help save the cursed and malformed Frog Prince by kissing him. A “Fairy Godmother” rewarded the audience’s act of compassion by attaching grotesque, plastic prostheses to those who took pity on the wretched Frog Prince. The hope of salvation via the frog’s embrace turned into contamination as a graphic representation of how our poisoned waterways are now affecting water flora and fauna, but human infants as well.

As a postscript to the performance, The Frog Prince removes her frog head and talks about the endocrine inhibitors caused by BPA’s in plastics, hormones in the waters human medications that travel through urine, agricultural run off that are flooding our water wrecking havoc with fish, amphibians, and now humans.

“Air Your Dirty Laundry” at Stonehill College

stonehill jeannie group boys smOn a bright and crisp November day, the Green Artists League  gave the Stonehill College community an opportunity for confession and redemption. Tapping into people’s guilt and denial of poor environmental behavior, GAL exhorted passer-by’s at Stonehill’s Family Weekend to come clean by giving public  eco-confessions. Participants where invited to sit down and give their private “kitchen table” confessions to GAL artists Jeannie Dunnigan and Erin Stack. After these initial confessions, GAL encouraged participants to air their formally private “eco transgressions” on reclaimed clothing and hang them on a 60′ laundry line installed in the center of campus. GAL gave participants the chance for redemption via a public vow  to change their eco-transgressive behaviors. These public declarations of change are listed on our full post. GAL has only posted those declarations that were signed. The playful and supportive atmosphere of “Air Your Dirty Laundry” allows people to look honestly at their consumption habits and empowers them to change.

Continue reading ‘“Air Your Dirty Laundry” at Stonehill College’

“Recently Homeless Polar Bear Needs Ice!” in Boston and Portsmouth, NH

Polar looking for lunch in Portsmouth

Polar looking for lunch in Portsmouth

On April 17th, 2009, a homeless polar bear was spotted in downtown Boston during lunch hour. She was accompanied by several members of the Green Artists League who passed out cards asking for help in saving her vanishing habitat.

The polar bear engaged lunching corporate executives in Post Office Square by waving her placard that read “Will Work for Fish” and asking for “Change”.  Finding little relief, she pushed her shopping cart throughout the downtown financial and tourist districts. Hoping to adapt to her new compromised circumstance, the polar bear attempted to befriend Bostonians by washing the windshields of cars waiting for a light near Faneuil Hall.

On April 19th, the polar bear had migrated north to Portsmouth, New Hampshire in hopes of finding a suitable habitat. Unfortunatly, no home was found but she did discover some day-old fish behind a sushi restaurant.

As the polar bear’s command of the English language is severely limited, GAL supplied the bear with cards to distribute in the hope of rallying people to change their environmentally destructive habits.

To read card texts go to full post. Continue reading ‘“Recently Homeless Polar Bear Needs Ice!” in Boston and Portsmouth, NH’