Art for the Environment Quarterly Newsletter - December 2006 Message from the Director Highlights Features Support Connect |
 Robert Bateman, |
Message from the Director
Greetings
from the Natural World Museum! We hope that you will enjoy the
premier issue of our quarterly newsletter Art for the Environment,
and find it as a resourceful guide to find out what is happening
in NWM’s global community. This newsletter also provides
opportunities for you to join us as a member, sign up as a volunteer,
or make a tax-deductible contribution to support
our mission. |
 Mia Hanak, Wangari Maathai, Klaus Toepfer |
As this year comes to a close, on behalf of our team at NWM, I’m delighted to share with you highlights of the success we experienced in 2006 and of the exciting projects we have lined up for 2007:
2006 – The Year in Review
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Mayor Gavin Newsom endorses Natural World Museum’s international Art for the Environment Initiative in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme. |
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NWM launches the Art for the Environment Initiative with a major exhibit at the United Nations Environment Programmme’s Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. |
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Through NWM’s Planet Art environmental outreach program for children, exhibited 700 works of art from 350 students in San Francisco, and 350 works of art from students in five other countries were exhibited and produced into a book. |
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We celebrated UN World Environment Day with the opening of our annual exhibition on the theme of Deserts, Drylands and Desertification, in partnership with UNEP at in the 2006 host city, Algiers, Algeria. |
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NWM received a $45,000 sponsorship from Clear Channel Outdoor, featuring three billboards throughout San Francisco for the Art for the Environment Initiative |
2007 – The Year Ahead
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Local Exhibition – NWM has been awarded a $40,000 grant from the Wattis Foundation to produce Environmental Renaissance, an Exhibition that takes you Where the Future Lives, featured at San Francisco City Hall from April to June. |
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International Exhibition – With plans secured for NWM’s annual UN World Environment Day exhibition to tour internationally, Envisioning Change (focusing on the 2007 theme of Melting Ice – A Hot Topic) will launch at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Norway, then tour to the BOZAR at the Palace of Fine Arts in Brussels Belgium before coming to the USA. |
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Book Launch – NWM’s first book, Art in Action – Nature, Creativity, and Our Collective Future, is coming to fruition, featuring 80 artists including Alfio Bonnano, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Edward Burtynsky, Cai Guo Qiang, Masaru Emoto and more! |
We hope to see you at the opening reception of one of our exhibitions. Look for our next newsletter in March for updates, or become a member to receive special discounts. Also, with the holiday season approaching, you can show your support for the splendor of the natural world by supporting NWM with an end of the year tax deductible donation, a membership, or a book as a gift for yourself and others!
With warm regards for the holiday season!
Mia Hanak
Founding Executive Director
Natural World Museum
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Highlights
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From
Seed to Scene The San Francisco-based Generocity Magazine has produced their premier issue featuring Natural World Museum and its Founding Executive Director, Mia Hanak. To read this article, please download this PDF file. |
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Art
in Action Nature, Creativity, and our Collective Future In 2007, NWM will release its premiere fine book archive that showcases works of art from eighty world renowned and emerging artists. 11 x 11", 176 pages, trade paper, recycled rubber cover, $45.00 - Available June 2007 – ORDER NOW Olafur Eliasson, The Weather Project, Tate Modern 2003 |
Visit the News
section of our website for more information.
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Environmental
Renaissance
An Exhibition that Takes you Where the Future Lives April 15 – June 15, 2007 San Francisco City Hall, 4th Floor Rotunda Gallery Opening Reception: April 19th from 5:30 – 8:30 pm Join us for an exhibit that explores how your daily habits contribute to global environmental issues and learn how you can take personal action in being part of the solution. Lucy & Jorge Orta, Life Nexus Vitrine, 2005 |
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Envisioning
Change June 1 – August 20, 2007 Nobel Peace Center – Oslo, Norway Opening Reception: June 5, 2007 For UN World Environment Day 2007, NWM presents an exhibition based around the ideas of climate change from a global perspective – the melting and thawing of ice, snow and permafrost as environment-altering changes taking place around the world. |
Visit the Exhibitions section of our website for more information.
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Planet
Art NWM’s environmentally-based art program for children is continuing to provide new opportunities for students in San Francisco, as well as to students in eight other countries during the 2006-2007 school year. Classrooms around the world explore their personal impact on the environment and translate their message into artwork that will be exhibited in San Francisco in spring of 2007, and then travel to NWM’s exhibit in Oslo, Norway for World Environment Day in June. |
Visit the Education section of our website for more information.
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Features
www.climatecrisis.org
We
find Al Gore’s website to be exceptionally informative about
the staggering changes the earth is experiencing as a result of
Global Warming and Climate Change. We’d also like to highly suggest making the venture to view Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth |
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Featured Artist
Jordan's
photography is a reminder of the pervasiveness of our consumerism.
Collectively, as a culture, Jordan states, "we are committing
a vast and unsustainable act of taking." The reflection of
our consumerism is seen in his large-scale color photography which
become both abstract and detailed as we see the accumulation of
our refuse overtaking even the picture plane. |
 _______Cell phones
#2, Atlanta 2005 44" x 90"
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Jordan's work will be featured in our upcoming publication, Art into Action.
www.chrisjordan.com
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Support
How can you get involved in
programs that use art as a catalyst to generate environmental awareness
and action? Join the Natural World Museum! During the holiday season,
if you make a donation or start a membership for friends, family, or colleagues,
we will send the recipient a gift package immediately upon receipt of
contribution online or via mail.
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please e-mail
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Merchandise
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and Our Collective Future. Published by Earth Aware Editions, released
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your copy for $45.
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Kofi Annan, United Nations Secretary-General
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