Environmental Art for Social Change

Environmental Art for Social Change

‘Alice Walker wrote, “In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.”

From the dawn of time, beginning with cave paintings until the present day, human beings' experience of the natural world has inspired them to create art.

Environmental art is a general term describing art that enhances or becomes part of the environment. Within that larger category is a type of environmental art that makes a statement about how human beings should interact with their environment.

Find inspiration for your own environmental art work for social change in the work of three artists whose work is intended to interrupt the negative impact of human beings on the environment.” Jennifer Tianen