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This 1970s project by the newly formed Environmental Protection Agency produced over 20,000 photographs documenting American pollution, infrastructure, and wilderness.
What is the Documerica project?
This large-scale ecological artwork by Agnes Denes, planted by 11,000 people in Finland, involves a spiral pattern of 10,000 trees meant to serve as a "living time capsule."
What is Tree Mountain?
This early work by the Harrisons, first performed in 1970, consisted of producing rich soil in response to the global endangerment of topsoil.
What is Making Earth?
In 1972, Thomas became the first Black woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. What was the title of one of her notable works?
What is Snoopy–Early Sun Display on Earth?
W. Eugene Smith’s photography project in Minamata, Japan, focused on the devastating effects of this type of poisoning from a local factory.
What is mercury poisoning?
This piece by Noah Purifoy, created from scrap metal and suspended on four legs, is a reference to the platforms that extract oil off the coast of Southern California.
What is Offshore Drilling?
This artwork by Haacke, exhibited at Cornell University’s Earth Art in 1969, consisted of rye grass that sprouted, withered, and died during the exhibition.
What is Grass Grows?
After shifting her focus from painting to performance art, Mendieta explored issues of gender and identity through her body. Name one early performance that foreshadowed her "Silueta" series.
What is Grass on Woman?
This 1968 concept introduced by Jack Burnham emphasized the connection between artworks and larger systemic structures, both ecological and informational.
What is Systems Esthetics?
Before becoming a renowned photographer, Subhankar Banerjee worked for this company after leaving Los Alamos National Laboratory.
What is Boeing?
This Earthwork, completed in 1976, features large concrete tubes aligned with the sun's position during the summer and winter solstices and includes holes representing constellations.
What is Sun Tunnels?
This ongoing project of Chin’s began in New Orleans in 2006 and aims to end childhood lead poisoning through the collection of unique, hand-drawn $100 bills.
What is the Fundred Project?
This early American environmental writer emphasized solitary experiences in nature, contributing significantly to twentieth-century environmental ethics, but also reflected a privileged perspective.
Who is Henry David Thoreau?
Vik Muniz used peanut butter and jelly to create this 1999 photographic recreation of an iconic painting by Leonardo da Vinci.
What is the Mona Lisa?
In this 1992 piece, Dion transplanted a section of the Amazon rainforest floor into a museum gallery, where he sifted through it to study its invertebrates.
What is A Meter of Jungle?
This African-American photographer, known for using his camera as a "weapon" against racism, was one of Frazier’s inspirations.
Who is Gordon Parks?
Recent writings by feminist authors and scholars of Indigenous culture have pointed out the silencing of which perspectives in the traditional environmentalist narrative?
What are gender and cultural differences?
In Muniz's Marat (Sebastião), he photographed this man, an organizer among the catadores in Brazil, recreating the famous Death of Marat painting by Jacques-Louis David.
Who is Tião Santos?
This 1999 video artwork by Huyghe examines the 1972 bank robbery in Brooklyn that inspired the film Dog Day Afternoon, blending historical footage and contemporary interviews.
What is The Third Memory?
This megaphone-like structure, made of wood and animal hide, was used by Belmore to amplify the voices of Indigenous leaders and activists.
What is Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother?