Seeing Green: Art, Ecology, and Activism: Digital Arts and Culture at UWM by Sura, March 25

Seeing Green: Art, Ecology, and Activism: Digital Arts and Culture at UWM

Seeing Green: Art, Ecology, and Activism opens Saturday, April 12, 5:00-9:00pm at Woodland Pattern Book Center, 720 E. Locust St., Milwaukee, WI.

Seeing Green encourages artists to leave the confines of the studio and take an active role with the community, to collaborate and address issues of the environment, and to open a dialog with the public. Guest curator Nicolas Lampert invited over 40 local artists to work on a project for the duration of eight months. During the month of April, 2008 the show will be exhibited at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where the gallery will serve as a hub space, informing the viewer and the public of the many environmental projects taking place throughout the city, exhibiting visual work and books, screening films and holding discussions and events based around the exhibition.

Calendar:
Saturday, April 12, 2008, 5:00-9:00pm
Seeing Green opens at Woodland Pattern Book Center (720 E. Locust St., Milwaukee, WI.)

Sunday, March 30th, 2:00pm
Reading by California author Rebecca Solnit

Wednesday, April 16th, 7:00-9:00pm
Curator talk by Nicolas Lampert 4:30-6:00 / Film Screening
(Screening of 5 minute films and videos on urban ecology issues by: Lane Hall, Lisa Moline, Lindsay Holden, Brandon Bauer, Ray Chi, Laura Klein, Eddee Daniel, Suzanne Rosenblatt, Spencer Tepper, Zachary Nesgoda).
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Greening Milwaukee - Get a Free Tree by Sura, December 28

I spoke to a constituent a couple of days ago about the driveway of a new development in his neighborhood. The effect of that driveway was to make street parking less available (therefore netting no new parkings spaces), and the destruction of a 75 year-old Maple tree.

An irony when we are considering the potential effects of the Emerald Ash Borer on the city’s trees, and the overall need for a greater tree canopy in the city.

We need a stronger city plan to ensure the health of our urban forest, You can get a free tree from Greening Milwaukee

Trees
- Provide shade in the summer
- increase our property values
- Reduce our energy bills
- Help block harmful ultraviolet rays
- Increase our ability to concentrate
- Absorb carbon dioxide and emit oxygen, cleaning the air we breathe
- Reduce our reliance on air conditioners
- Reduce water runoff that lead to sewer overflows (green is always better than concrete or asphalt)
- Provide a home for birds and other wildlife

and make us all happier.

P.S. We need city trees on Holton St.

28 Dec 2007 | 4:14 pm | Environmental Sustainability | No comments yet - Add your comments