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TreeLine EcoArt Program: Creating Environmental Awareness Through Art

TreeLine is an ecoArt initiative that aims to raise awareness and evoke emotional responses to environmental issues through various art practices. The program involves identifying significant trees, exploring environmental issues, and using art for environmental activism. TreeLine includes commissioned artists, community workshops, and partnerships with events such as Bunya Festival and World Environment Day. The initiative also provides ecoArt education materials, artist residencies, and online documentation. Join TreeLine in restoring and celebrating our natural world!

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TreeLine EcoArt Program: Creating Environmental Awareness Through Art

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  1. What is EcoArt? EcoArt practice seeks to restore, protect and preserve the world for its own sake, and to mediate human/world relations to this end. (Carruthers, 2006)

  2. TreeLine Aim TreeLine aims to raise awareness of and evoke an emotional response to environmental issues through inter-disciplinary art practice.

  3. TreeLine projects will… 1.Identify and celebrate significant trees 2.Explore an environmental issue 3.Act out for the environment Lantana Wreath, Wendy McGrath

  4. Valued by a school or kindy What is a Significant Tree?

  5. A tree of cultural heritage value Bunya tree

  6. A tree valued by neighbourhood or community Moffat Beach Playground fig tree

  7. A tree that characterises place Cotton Tree, 1918

  8. A commemorative tree or tree planting Tree planting at Coolum, 1933

  9. A tree important as part of an ecosystem

  10. A tree in a significant location

  11. Multi-arts Approach Earth Song opening, Caloundra Regional Art Gallery Marion Gaemers, necklaces, Strand Ephemera

  12. www.treeline.org.au

  13. TreeLine Program Lead Artist Program • Commissioned and invited artists • Art in the environment • Exhibits in regional galleries • Artists in Residence Keith Armstrong and James Muller

  14. TreeLine Program Community Program • Workshops, happenings • Selected community groups • Palmwoods Piccabeen Celebration • Barung Landcare’s Figs in the Forest Project • Library program

  15. TreeLine Program TreeLine @ Program Partnering with other events: • Bunya Festival • Eumundi Markets • SCRUFFFY Film Festival • Maleny Wood Expo • World Environment Day • Bankfoot House Open Day Bunya Dreaming Festival

  16. TreeLine Program TreeLine 4U – Get Involved Projects developed by: • You • Schools • Individual artists • Community, environment and heritage groups Projects presented at treeline.org.au Community Project, Live Oak “Nest” Hill of the Hawk, Big Sur, California

  17. TreeLine Program EcoArt Education • TreeLine website – www.treeline.org.au • EcoArt education materials online • Artists working with schools in and about the environment • Tree Tales at the Book Farm • Artist in Residence – Currimundi Catchment Care Group with schools • TreeMappa 2.0 with CQUniversity

  18. Timeline • Present-January 2010 – fundraising, website, eco-Art education, partnering. • December 2009 – Launch TreeLine Program • January 2010 – Launch at the Bunya Dreaming Festival • February-May 2010 – Education and Community program • 26 May to 4 July 2010 – Art in the environment and projected exhibits in Caloundra and Noosa Regional Galleries and the Butter Factory, Cooroy.

  19. TreeLine Legacy • Online ecoArt education material • Online documentation of TreeLine ecoArt projects • Strengthened local art and environment networks • Template for ecologically, economically and socially sustainable inter-disciplinary art event Armstrong and Muller

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