Place-Based Art Education
Hello, my name is Anna Arielle Chapman. I am an artist and educator passionate about the intersection of art, education, ecology and healing. I believe that interdisciplinary approaches to education are necessary to meaning-making in the Anthropocene. My work is inspired by postcolonial, indigenous, and post-human frameworks, aiming to (re)evaluate extractive relationships to materiality, community, and environment in Western culture.
Please explore this website to learn more about my work. .
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Meaning-Making in the Anthropocene
Today, in the midst of the 6th mass extinction and extreme wealth inequality, beings world-wide contend with the impacts of the Great Acceleration fueled by the fossil fuel economy. As the consequences of extractive lifestyles and objectifying ideologies come home to roost in the shape of global warming, many of us are questioning the historical narratives we are on the receiving end of. How can we discern a meaningful and sane way of engaging with the world today? In an era when we must scale back, can we find sanctuary within limitation? I believe art and education are critical tools that can help us mobilize toward reconciliatory relationships to place, community, materiality, and voice. The social and environmental problems we face as a culture are entangled, we must meet these trials in entangled ways. Inspired by post-colonial, post-human, and indigenous frameworks, my courses aim to cultivate reconciliatory relationships to materiality, community, and environment through art practices.
My practice is devoted to helping artists and art educators find meaningful ways of engaging with their practice in light of a rapidly changing world. I provide personal insight and collected resources that I have gathered through my own research and praxis in art, education, healing, and ecology; as well as resources and frameworks woven in through partnership with the Center for Art Education & Sustainability (sustainableartschool.org). To see more of my own creative practice, go to AnnaChapmanArt.com, or connect with me on instagram @owl_and_apple
Classes
Sustain(ability) & the Studio course
6 session course
This course prepares prepare artists to develop ways of thinking about sustainability in their practice, both conceptually and physically. Participants will learn how to wildcraft art materials, a practice that requires one to deepen their relationship with land, creativity, and self. Artists will also be invited to think critically about their relationship to place and community in a time of socio-ecological destabilization. Through lectures, discussions, creation, and sharing, we will explore the implications of a bioregional perspective and investigate the function of art today. In the second half of the course, each student will work on their own project, informed by course content. They will receive feedback from Anna and the class before a final presentation, open to the public.
Student Work
SUSAN SNIPES
“I committed to a more sustainable art practice with a specific focus on materials in Autumn of 2021. I have collected, catalogued and created my own materials in the Cleveland area for six months. Materials include acorn ink, walnut ink, mineral pigments, beeswax crayons, and charcoal. The shift in my attention enabled me discover treasures like beautiful ochre rocks on my walk or receive black walnuts from friends. I’m grateful to Mother Earth for placing them in my path. Making these materials has deepened my studio practice.”
www.Susansnipes.com
IG: @susansnipesart
Casein paint and discarded threads on wood panel.
LOTTE GEODE
“During the Covid quarantine I became conscious of the harmful impact I was making with my art on the environment. I switched from acrylic paints and cheaply mass-produced canvases to all natural paints on natural substrates. I am currently experimenting with different natural paints and eco-friendly substrates. I am making my own paper from my kids daily-discarded math worksheets and I use raw organic cotton canvas hung and sticks I find in the forest. I paint on these with casein paints (a milk product based paint), tempera paints (egg yolk plus natural pigment) and walnut oil with natural pigments."
NICOLE GARDINI
Nicole organized a community art making event in a small village in Goiás, Brazil. The goal was to bring the community together and embrace their local knowledge of art, food and medicine making processes, learning from and engaging with the local cerrado.
IG: @nicoletakasse
"Ko Au te Whenua: Material Considerations in a Painting Practice" by Helen Harvey
"Ko au te whenua translates to “I am the land”, from the Māori saying “I am the land and the land is me”. This research is about my ancestral and material connection to the Earth. Making paint with earth pigments, plant materials, and non-plastic binders like rabbit skin glue helps me to connect to the place where I live in New Zealand, and to live in right relationship with the natural world."
IG: @helenharveyartist
KARLA ZAMARRIPA
As an aspiring art educator, Karla created her own curriculum and facilitated her own class around topics discussed in the course relating to sustainability, interconnectedness, and community resilience. Inspired by traditional approaches to art-making using found objects, Karla embraced her Mexican heritage, creating folk art from discarded materials.
IG: @hechaxkarlillagalletilla
LIZZY STORM
"My personal sustainability goals revolve around reconnecting with our natural resources: earth, air, water, and living resources such as plants, animals, and fungi. The idea of waste is foreign to my core values of mutual respect and thoughtfulness for others and the environment. I want to be able to see the whole stream of materials in my practice as useful, and to connect with community through these shared practices of cyclical being."
Ig: @lizzystorm
@lizzystormstudiofuel
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