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Air Your Dirty Laundry Inspires Next Generation

erin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:53:08 +0000

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

erin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:46:53 +0000

Boston, 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 the 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

erin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:39:33 +0000

On 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.

I vow to unplug my outlets when I am done using my appliances.
- Kyle Weeks
I will take shorter showers using hot water and when brushing my teeth turn off the water. – Lori Daniels
I vow to unplug my outlets at night.
-Nicole Crescimanno
I will try to use my towels more than once.
-Gena
I own too many ICE’S (Internal Combustion Engines) Ride bicycle
-Jim Hawsgate
I’m going to try to unplug my appliances more, turn the lights off and filter my water more! -Maggie Seaver
My government employer wastes too much paper on forms that a lot of people don’t really understand and can’t follow. Simplify it to a letter and make a personal visit.
- L. Rivers
I want to quit smoking on Christmas Eve!
- John Martin
I will try and fix all leaky faucets.
- Eric Sarra
I will not leave the TV on when I’m not watching it.
- Noah
I will try to not to use disposable food containers. Instead, I will use a Tupperware container from now on.
-Jessica Jarrard
I will design and work with sustainability in mind and encourage my clients to do the same.
- Jon H.
I will pay more attention to where my clothes come from and avoid the unsustainable.
- Cassie
I will make a more conscience effort to not waste energy. I will turn off lights and other elements when I am not using them.
-Ethan Penny
I will buy a reusable thermos that I’ll use every day and will try to unplug my electronics.
-Emi
I will clean up the pieces of trash in the parking lot.
- Jim
Sometime I don’t recycle my water bottles.
-Frankie
I throw too much paper away.
- Devin
I leave my lights on and leave my room.
-Josh
I will lower my heat below 74 degrees.
-Alan Kafka
I will work on not using Styrofoam cups at work. I will buy glass cups for my co-workers!
-Pam K.

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

erin — Sun, 17 May 2009 02:29:30 +0000

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.

Examples of card text

Save My Home

My longer commute for food is killing me.

Please Carpool and use public transit.

Drive energy efficient/clean emission cars.

Save My Home

I can’t adapt to being a vegetarian.
But you can. 30% of human-induced

climate change is from agriculture. Beef production

contributes 57 times more to global warming than

potato production.