Healthy Art Workshop
Saturday March 9, 1-3pm
Intersection for the Arts
925 Mission Street, Suite 109
San Francisco, CA 94103
The Inspector in the
Huffington Post
Saving the Earth by
Changing Art
The Art Inspector is a third party certification agent that examines the environmental impact of art process and practice. Art Inspector works with interested agents such as curators, artists, collectors, and others in order to pre-qualify artists who pass a standard of environmental stewardship.
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The Healthy Art Program, created by The Art Inspector, is an ongoing project with an art and curatorial focus. The purpose of the project is to assess the energy consumption, material use and environmental impact of art making and to educate artists about lowering their carbon footprints. Five Santa Clara County artists, Therese May, Shannon Amidon, Lori Krein, Genevieve Hastings and Christine Canepa, agreed to participate in an eco-makeover.
The five artists allowed The Art Inspector into their studios to conduct an audit of their art supplies as well as an energy assessment of their working spaces and use of power tools. Based on these assessments, The Art Inspector made some studio modifications and gave the artists tools to track their energy consumption.
Additionally, The Art Inspector supplied all of the artists with green art-making materials that have a low carbon footprint, lessening the environmental impact of their work. Some of these included replacing lighting with CFL bulbs, monitoring use of power tools, using natural mineral pigments and non-forest paper products. All of the artworks in The Energy Smart Exhibition feature the new green materials and reflect the transformation of thought, application and practice undergone by each artist. The transformation of the artists and their work can be tracked through the artists’ blog at https://artinspector.org/blog.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to the following contributors: Ryan Wylie for all video production; Wendy Crockett for all photo production; and Joseph Kirchhof for web development. Thank you to PJ Iver and Shayna Hirshfield, and the Silicon Valley Energy Watch Program. Thanks also go to ZERO1: The Art & Technology Network, for fiscal sponsorship, and to the San José Public Art Program.
by
Danielle Siembieda
The Art Inspector
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Can you create archival quality art with green materials?
Leah Mebane, 8:59pm Apr 25, 2013
While studying painting at one of the top art schools in America, I trusted my amazing professors like they were preaching the gospel. I looked up to their expertise so completely that I assumed they would of course tell me if any of these supplies they were recommending might be extremely toxic. For the supplies that I already knew were toxic (like turpentine and cadmium paints), I assumed they were a necessary evil to produce a high quality piece of art - or else someone would have told me an alternative.
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