Visual & Multi-Media Resources

This is a new area of the ASLE Web site we would like to develop with the help of members and other users.  We welcome your input on visual and multi-media resources you have developed for use in your courses and are willing to share.  We also would like to hear about online resources that have been developed and that you have found useful.  We hope to create links to these online resources, or to house some of them here if technically reasonable.

If you have developed or used any visual or multi-media resources that might be of assistance to those in the field of literature and environment or related fields, please email the ASLE Managing Director to discuss linking to them or mounting them here. 

Look Sharp
Project Look Sharp is a media literacy initiative of Ithaca College to provide materials, training and support for the effective integration of media literacy with critical thinking into classroom curricula at all education levels.  There are curriculum kits and lessons on environment, health, global studies, etc.

Ecomedia Studies
Website and blog that seeks to facilitate interdisciplinary and innovative approaches to the study of non-print media as it applies to environmental discourse and action.

greenmuseum.org
This is an online "museum" featuring environmentally themed artwork with photographs and descriptions.  See especially:
Artists and Exhibits
Teaching Art in the Context of Everyday Life (article)

The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts

iLCP: International League of Conservation Photographers
A nonprofit organization whose mission is to further environmental and cultural conservation through ethical photography.  Enter their "12 Shots" photo contest (see their homepage above).

The NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council) Environmental Art Prize

Environmental Photographer of the Year (deadline for submission July 31, 2010)

Teaching Environment through Art (paper)

February 28, 2011.  I-Park is pleased to announce that it will be hosting its third international, multi-disciplinary Environmental Art Biennale on September 10, 2011. This will be preceded by a 3-week residency that begins on August 23, 2011. This residency is exclusively for the artists who will be creating pieces for this event. The application deadline for the program is February 28, 2011.  I-Park is seeking original projects that are responsive to the site. $2,000 per participant to cover artist's fee and materials.  A limited transportation reimbursement will be provided.  For details: http://www.i-park.org/EnvironmentalArt.html

February 28, 2011. Inter-Disciplinary/Collaboration Projects Residency at I-Park.  The I-Park Foundation (East Haddam, CT/USA) is pleased to announce its first artists-in-residence session devoted exclusively to inter-disciplinary and collaboration projects.  Artists/practitioners working in the following fields are
encouraged to apply: visual arts, music composition/sound sculpture/design, landscape/garden design, language arts, moving image, performance art and photography. The lead project for this session is Proto-Gonzo, a site specific, rule-based collaboration curated by sculptor Marco Dessardo. The 3-week residency runs from July 13 - August 1, 2011. For program and application materials: www.i-park.org/2011IDCProgram.html.