About EcoArt South Florida
Who, What and When
About EcoArt South Florida: Who, What When? EcoArt South Florida, Inc.(EcoArt SoFla) is a 501 C 3 nonprofit, launched in 2007 as the South Florida Environmental Art Project (SFEAP). The organization is dedicated to catalyzing the development of South Florida as a major center for ecological art (EcoArt) practice. By 2015 the goal is to …
Mission
The mission of EcoArt South Florida is to encourage ecological health and decrease negative human impact through the rapid expansion of EcoArt in each of South Florida’s five watersheds. EcoArt SoFla implements our goal to catalyze the development of South Florida as a major center for EcoArt practice through collaboration with communities in each watershed. …
Educating the Public
EcoArt SoFla’s primary role is to catalyze the emergence of South Florida as a center for EcoArt practice. To accomplish this it will be necessary to reach out to, and educate leaders of key environmental and cultural stakeholder organizations, practicing resident artists and the general public, in South Florida, regarding the significant role EcoArt can …
South Florida’s need for EcoArt
EcoArt SoFla believes art must be integrated into sustainability strategies. In South Florida, like everywhere else on the globe, sustainability strategies have been driven by science and political expediency. One searches in vain at all levels of the worldwide sustainability research/policy development community to find the tiniest acknowledgment of the role art could and should …
The Watersheds
Focus on Water… It is evident that water holds a singular place of importance for South Florida, as it does for all the Earth, and that this vital resource—and, therefore, also, the fragile ecologies that depend on it—is in danger. EcoArt, with its strong emphasis on community engagement and animation, can be a powerful partner …
How we are doing it
Some examples of the kinds of EcoArt projects EcoArt SoFla has catalyzed: Emphasis in all EcoArt SoFla program areas will be on permanent integration of EcoArt into the ongoing organizational planning and programming of existing environmental advocacy, scientific, governmental and cultural organizations in South Florida. EcoArt SoFla began, as soon as the organization launched, under …
Support for EcoArt South Florida
How EcoArt South Florida supports itself Paid Consultancies. The intention is for all EcoArt SoFla initiatives to be self-supporting and produced as integral, ongoing programmatic areas of key environmental advocacy or amelioration groups or public agencies, or of key cultural organizations within the South Florida region. Such groups may be private or governmental. EcoArt SoFla …