SoA Green Studio

Youths sued Montana over climate change and won. Here’s why it matters. The ruling, the first of its kind, is reverberating worldwide, especially among young climate activists. But it still faces hurdles.

Make Your Own Seed-Bombs workshop led by Naoco Wowsugi
Wednesday, March 8 in Gillespie Gallery (Art and Design building)

Seeking class commitments
Drop ins are welcome from 1-7pm. The workshops will be approximately 1 hour long.

RSVP is required so that we can purchase enough supplies:

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Upcoming EcoArt WorkshopLove Letters to Nature Workshop
with Nicole Salimbene
Tuesday, February 14

On Valentine’s Day, February 14, Nicole Salimbene will lead a letter-art workshop inspired by the natural world that explores how letters can be used for metaphysical transformation. All supplies will be provided! Questions should be sent to [email protected].
The time slots being offered have changed slightly. Please see below for the updated time slots! We hope you can still participate, and apologize for any inconvenience this causes.

Time Slots:
10:30am - 12:30pm
2:30pm - 4:30pm
4:30pm - 5:15pm (accelerated workshop)

About the Artist: Nicole Salimbene is one of the 22 woman artists in the Cast/Recast exhibition. Working at the intersection of poetics, psychology, environmentalism and contemplative practice, her art aims to provoke self-inquiry and dialogue regarding social issues.

About ‘Unfolding Wisdom’ by Nicole Salimbene: In the lost art of the letter, we lose the embodied gesture of unfolding something slowly. To stare and search, to wonder and wander across the fields either in maps or letters. To behold for a moment content that cannot be swiped away. The patience of waiting for a letter to arrive. The sharing of wisdom and presence germinating in the time and space where the possibility of connection is drawn apart and pulled together without immediacy. Perhaps it is nostalgia or metaphor or longing, but I want to hold and unfold and fold something. And then release it. Unfolding is an invitation to reflect on what is slowly being revealed in the folds of your life.

Gillespie Gallery of Art
Art and Design Building
4515 Patriot Circle, Fairfax VA

Free and Open to the Public

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George Mason University's 2019 Hunger Banquet, happening on November 14, 2019 from 5pm -7pm at GMU Fairfax Campus - George's Johnson Center Third Floor!

This event can help raise awareness, as organizers and participants alike experience first-hand how our decisions affect others in the world. To learn more about the OXFAM Hunger Banquet, please click the following link:
https://www.oxfamamerica.org/take-action/events/oxfam-hunger-banquet/

https://ssac.gmu.edu/patriot-pantry/

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Submit a Public Art or Creative Sustainable Infrastructure Proposal

Mason Mural Brigade is embarking on its next project exploring the dynamic relationships between art, humanity, and the ELEMENTS: EARTH, WATER, FIRE, AIR. This open theme invites meaningful creative interpretations of contemporary society and our relationship with the environment from a variety of perspectives.

The three focus areas of ELEMENTS are:
1. Location-specific environmental issues, such as the California Wildfires or the Flint Water Crisis
2. Creative, sustainable infrastructure such as an innovative way to divert/reuse campus plastic waste, alternative power, a way to reuse storm/gray water, or a plant-material mural to clean the air, that will lessen the eco-footprint of the campus
3. Art that promotes environmental consciousness from lenses such as consumption, commoditization of natural resources, intersectionality and human rights (Ex. EcoFeminism, Environmental Racism), and more.

Student proposal form
https://forms.gle/qUSjixu4BMaRkJaa7

Professional Artist proposal form
https://forms.gle/czhuSEbsESpJ4Dqo9

Hey everyone! If you're an SIS major, you can get Independent Study credit, Experiential Learning, or internship credits for participating with the Mural Brigade! If you have experience/are studying something related to marketing, event planning, public relations, arts management, fundraising, sustainability, or social justice, consider this opportunity!