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Brower Center Awards Environmental Art

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For many artists, inspiration comes from nature and the wildlife around us. With the crisis of deforestation and the looming drought in California, it’s important to raise awareness about supporting the environment and beginning to bring an end to global warming. That’s the mission that the Canary Project hopes to achieve.

The Canary Project is a non-profit organization dedicated to producing art and media about ecological issues, such as climate change, extinction, and water resources. The organization believes that cultural production is crucial in social movements. Since 2006, Canary has produced more than twenty projects involving hundreds of artists, designers, scientists, writers and volunteers.

For their incredible work, this organization is being awarded with the David Brower Award, which is presented every fall at the David Brower center in Berkeley.

According to Dominic Lucchesi, a community Services Associate at the David Brower center, “[The David Brower center honors] established artists who have dedicated a significant part of their careers to making art that inspires environmental advocacy and engagement”.

The specific piece that the Canary Project is being awarded for is titled Water Gold Soil: American River, created by Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris. Their piece addresses the dwindling water supply in California by showcasing how we treat water as a commodity these days. The work is a collaboration of original photographic and video works, archival images, writing, maps, and other media. The art presented at the David Brower center serves as a grim and stoic reminder of the state of the planet. It reminds viewers of the crumbling environmental balance and serves as a call to action.