April 22, is Earth Day.

Initiated in 1970, Earth Day is a lodestar for the modern environmental move-
ment, which looks to limit humankind’s negative impact on the planet, protecting endangered spe-
cies and keeping our air and water clean. As they do with so many other important issues, many
artists embrace the environmental cause in their work, doing their part for the earth.

How Can Environmental Art Change the World?

In general, there is no strict definition of environmental art. However, many environmental artists help us to
understand nature; environmental art is concerned with environmental forces and materials; it re-envisions
humans’ relations with nature and remediates damaged environments. In addition, one of the main charac-
teristics of environmental art is that is usually created for one particular place, cannot be moved, and obvi-
ously cannot be exhibited in museums or galleries. But, there are exceptions, as environmental artists use a
wide range of different techniques in order to elevate environment art to new grounds.

Research one of these artists and one of their art pieces List information about the artist, de-
scribe the artwork, include images of the artwork, list your sources, explain in what way it is Envi-
ronmental Art). Compile into an Instagram or FB format of 3 images each with a lengthy text. It will
be uploaded to the ASW newspaper and presented in class April 26.

Refik Anadol’s Artificial Realities:Coral (Immersive Installation)

Refik Anadol’s Glacier Dreams (Installation)

Refik Anadol Machine Memoirs: Space (Immersive Installation)

Aurora Robson’s The Great Indoors

Sebastião Salgado’s Salt of the Earth

Lorenzo Quinn’s Support (installation)

Veronika Richterová’s The Collection of Cactuses (constructed scultpure)

Chris Jordan’s Albatross chick on Midway Island

Jeff Hong’s ‘Unhappily Ever After’ series

Agnes Denes’s Wheatfield or Rice /Tree / Burial

Jaakko Pernu’s Timberline (sculptures)