The Green Artists League is involved in various green educational outreach efforts with children and adults. One of our members, Jeannie Dunnigan, has done considerable work with the Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Merrimack Valley in Massachusetts. Children make sketch books from recycled paper and utilizing cereal box sections as covers. These are often sold to raise money for the Boys & Girls Club. Jeannie also shows students a variety of other methods to make art from recycled materials.
Erin Stack, who has taught art, art theory and art history at the undergraduate and graduate level at Granite State College and the University of Iowa is the GAL internship supervisor. GAL is dedicated to mentoring young artists creatively, professionally, and philosophically and offers a dynamic internship. Interns have an opportunity to work with a variety of accomplished, interdisciplinary artists in the many aspects of environmental and activist art.
Deb Cinamon Whalen, who lives in New Hampshire, works with all age groups to create “healing blankets” consisting of natural materials, such as wool and other materials, and incorporating seeds, that she sends to people in West Virginia whose land has been devastated by mountain-top coal removal. These blankets are symbolic and practical, as they can help to connect children and adults from far away with those suffering the loss of their land as well as helping to reseed after deforestation in their community. Deb is also involved in other projects that raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.