Sam Bower

Sam has worked as a solo artist, puppeteer, web designer, in advertising, events planning and the environmental non-profit sector in the United States and in Ecuador. He has served as a founding Board Member of Dreamfish and on the Board and Advisory Board of various art and environment-related nonprofits and art projects

At greenmuseum.org, the term "environmental art" is used as an umbrella term to cover a wide range of artworks that address and help improve our relationship with the natural world. We look at Land and Earth Art, eco-art, art-in-nature as well as some forms of bio-art, acoustic ecology, ecological performance art, new media art, slow food and of course, social sculpture. Joseph Beuys was a committed environmentalist and one of the early artists to see the importance of interconnecting art, activism, healing ritual, community organizing and ecological restoration. Projects such as Bog Action and 7,000 Oaks have been seminal works in the history of "environmental art".

Shelley Sacks has continued on in this tradition through her own projects. Exchange Values and University of the Trees, for example, to explore modern agriculture and forestry issues in deeply personal ways. If the world is to create a more sustainable culture, artists need to be actively engaged in the process of re-connecting people, places and ideas. When our our understanding of the artwork, the museum, the Earth and all its people come to occupy the same space, we might be close to getting it right.