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.
The Alchemical Garden site February 2010
GAL is turning a desolate field of weeds into a visually compelling garden that will educate and engage the community for years to come. Located on a 160′ x 25′ site near the south entrance of Newburyport’s l Trail, the Alchemical Garden is a richly layered evolving art and horticulture experience that is accessible on many different levels to the public.
Alchemical Garden is designed to become a model for a sustainable, interactive public garden through the use of symbiotic, low maintenance plantings and recycled materials.
The ancient discipline of Alchemy marries art and science and is famously known for transforming a common material into gold. The Alchemical Garden will lead the community to transform on a number of levels :
Alchemical Garden with Spring Wheat "Crop Circles" June, 2011
BUILD COMMUNITY: The Garden creates a gathering space for individuals to form a more intimate relationship with their community. The space is designed with visual features and seating areas to compel passers-by to pause, reflect, and have a multi-sensory interactive experience ( sight, smell, touch, taste, smell) with the garden and the community.
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 .
2008-Present
New Eden Organic Community Gardens Plot Plan
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:
Continue reading ‘GAL’s Articulture #1: THe New Eden Collaborative at First Parish Church, Newbury’
Erin's Frog Painting in 5 Year Plan Art Book
Exciting News!! GAL founder and Co-director Erin Stack is one of only 32 artists internationally who have been tapped to contribute to a magnificent green arts fundraising project!!
GAL is finishing up phase 1 of the New Eden Collaborative Sustainable Community Mural at First Parish Church in Newbury, MA. The Green Artists League asked members of the New Eden Collaborative for their vision of a sustainable community. Their aspirations were used as the inspiration for this 9’ x 60′ mural in the entrance hallway to Holtan Hall at First Parish Church. Come by on Fridays from 10AM-3PM to talk with the GALs as they work on the mural and let’s brainstorm what we can do for a sustainable future. This mural is partially funded by a generous grant from the Newbury Cultural Council. First Parish Church is located at 20 High Road, Newbury, MA.
GAL member, Deb Cinamon Whalen, A NOFA (New England Organic Farm Association) trained organic land care specialist, will be offering a two-hour Introduction to Organic Vegetable Gardening class for New Eden Collaborative participants. The class is also open to anyone else interested in organic gardening. It will be offered twice at First Parish Church of Newbury, 20, High Road, Newbury, MA, on Friday, February 20th from 6:30-8:30 P.M. and Saturday, March 7th from 5:00-7:00 P.M. $5 at the door.