Who Needs Paint to Create Eco-Art When You Have a Lot of People?

How do you create a work of art? Well, you could use paint or pencil or crayon or chalk.

Then again, you could use people, preferably a whole lot of people who line up in a pre-determined pattern, a pattern that can be captured on film from a camera overhead.

That was the idea behind the “Peoples Environmental Art Project,” recently held for the fifth straight year in the US state of Iowa.

People lined up in to form a giant frog that was captured from overhead.

According to project organizers, making a human work of eco-art takes a lot of preparation but it’s a great expression of people’s concern about the environment. “By using people as a medium for art,” one of tem told a reporter, “we do not pollute and leave nothing behind but our footprints.”

To learn more, read the Spencer Daily story. 

This Eco-Art Contest Attracted 4,700 4th and 5th Graders from Almost 100 Schools in Texas

Drawing by Katherine Simpers, Nacagdoches, TX

Everyone wanted to win the Texas Forest Service’s annual Arbor Day Poster Contest (and the $500 savings bond that goes to the overall winner).

The theme last year was “Trees are Terrific . . . in all Shapes & Sizes!”

Katherine Simpers of Nacagdoches, TX won but, personally, Earth Preservers thinks any of the four finalists would have made a great winner.

Who would you have picked? Why not have an eco-art poster contest in your school!

Drawing by Hannah Oh, Temple, TX

Drawing by Maya Joseph, Coppell, TX

Drawing by Christine Peavler, Harlingen, TX

Taiwan Student Imagines What Sustainability Looks Like

Painting by Lu Ru-sheng, Courtesy TAISE, via The China PostIf you were to sponsor an environmental art contest, what would be your theme?

Not surprisingly, the theme picked by the Taiwan Institute for Sustainable Energy was “sustainability.”

But while the theme wasn’t surprising, we think the winning painting is.

How would you describe it? The painter herself, a junior high student in Taiwan, describes it as follows:

“Although one person has only one pair of hands, together we have thousands of pairs of hands, and we should protect the Earth day and night.”

She talks as good as she paints, don’t you think?

To learn more, read this China Post article.

Meet Winner of 1st Earth Day Canada Art Contest

Photo Courtesy TD Friends of the Environment Foundation & Earth Day Canada“We regularly hear from teachers about the importance students place on protecting the environment, so we developed the Art Contest with Earth Day Canada to engage students and instill a lifelong passion for protecting nature.”

So says the executive director of TD Friends of the Environment Foundation, explaining why her group teamed up with Earth Day Canada to create a nationwide art contest for kids in grades one through eight.

Meet the winner: 7th grader Sophia Maltese, standing next to her expressive panting of a tree. Sophia won last November, beating out 4,000 other kids.

To learn more about this contest, and to see works by other kids that were recognized, go to the contest site.