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"Art In Action"

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Natural World Museum
Text by Noa Jones
Foreword by Achim Steiner
9.75” x 10”, 176 pages
Over 100 color illustrations
ISBN-13: 978-1-932771-77-0

In the environmental realm, science and art are inextricably linked. While science determines how we measure the health of our planet, art allows us to visualize our relationship to the natural world. Art in Action collects creative interpretations of the state of out planet in word and image by seventy-nine artists. These varied pieces express a profound appreciation for all species and landscapes, explore our natural world lost, despaired and reconstructed and describe the fantasy of paradises anew and gone awry.

From the expansive vision of Christo to the enlightened power of Olafur Eliasson, the art speaks to us in as many ways as there are artists. Each chapter asks us to celebrate, reflect, interact, protect and act, demonstrating the vast and rich web of life and the interconnectedness of it all. No book can change the natural world. But these stories and photographs can build awareness, the first critical step in changing our collective story from one that exploits and destroys nature for the benefit of humankind to one that nurtures and values the natural world.

Mia Hanak is the Founding Executive Director of the Natural World Museum, an organization committed to inspiring sustainable culture through the arts in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). She leads the team that produces the innovative Art for the Environment global exhibition series. She has been nominated by the American Association of Museums as a “Museum Leader for the Next Generation.” She currently resides in San Francisco.

Randy Rosenberg is an artist and has also curated many art collections for international organizations including The World Bank, the International Finance Corporation and Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her traveling exhibitions include: The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama and Envisioning Change; Attitudinal and Climate.

For more information, visit the Natural World Museum at artintoaction.org

"City of Gold"

from the artist residency at de Young Museum San Francisco August 2007

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SPARK* on PBS KQED Channel 9

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"Impressions" @ Chi Contemporary Fine Art NY

Chosen "Best in Show"

-The Village Voice, New York. April 2006

"Impressions" is a visceral and visionary response to New York City."

-Rebecca Migdal, Go Brooklyn

"Joe Mangrum has a rare and remarkable talent-- he can arrange anything anywhere-- indoors, outdoors, animate, inanimate, large, small, rock, scissors, paper, plastic, plaster, powder, dirt, dust, doorknobs, pennies, bones, bottles, batteries, liquids, solids-- anything-- makes no difference. If all of us could do what Joe Mangrum does, the world would be an unimaginably fantastic and glorious place."

-Alan Bamberger artbusiness.com

"Walking into Joe Mangrum's installation at Urbius/ Artium was an abolute kick in the pants. It was the richest fusion I've seen in a gallery"

-Open Ground NY

a Time lapse view of the deyoung exhibit

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