Art for Nature: Ideas for Our Future

Art for Nature - Ideas for Our Future is a four-part series with four schools across the Unites States.

The starting point for the series was the question:

How can we live healthy and fulfilling lives in the future?

The four schools across the United States each worked with an artist on exploring and probing this question.

The schools are: Maggie Walker Governor’s School in Richmond, Virginia, Borah High School in Boise, Idaho, Santa Fe Community College in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Vestavia Hills High School in Vestavia / Birmingham, Alabama.

Each school took a very different approach and their works will be published here after the conclusion of the project.

The students at Santa Fe Community College worked on unmapping the terrain with a focus on uranium mining impacts, together with artist Shayla Blatchford (https://www.antiuraniummappingproject.com/).

The students at Vestavia Hills High School expressed hopes and fears about their future and the climate they will live in, working with artist Brian Hebert (https://www.instagram.com/bern_174/).

The students at Borah High School decided to focus on waste and recycling, working with artist Thomas Heinser (https://preview.thomasheinser.com/).

The students at Maggie Walker chose the James River as their focus, guided by the artist R. Stein Wexler (https://www.rsteinwexler.com/).

Santa Fe Community College - Art, Extraction and Imagination

Art works at SFCC. Clockwise from top right: Shane Tolbert, Barbara Macks, Natasha Deighton, Shayla Blatchford.

Vestavia Hills High School - Art for Nature, Ideas for Our Future

Art for Nature at Vestavia Hills High School

Borah High School - Why We Should Care

The students at Borah High School in Boise, Idaho, focused on waste, recycling and a more circular economy under the title "Why We Should Care". The German-born photographer Thomas Heinser from San Francisco supported their work.