Overview

Overview

WHAT WE DO

We are producers.

We co-create on-going programs and one-time projects

in collaboration with others in response to needs and opportunities.

Activities have included performances, exhibits, classes, workshops, talks, tours, panel discussions, convenings, classes, workshops, youth programs, field trips, consulting, and recently a spherical short film.

Our activities have reached audiences as few as three to six people
in intensive, highly focused experiential classes to more than 110,000
viewers for a touring exhibit.

WHY WE DO IT

EcoArts Connections (EAC) is based on these three questions:

  • why is it that so many people know we are facing multiple 
    environmental and other crises, yet so few people are doing anything about them?
  • how can we help people understand that environmental, economic, social, cultural, and personal sustainability are all interconnected?
  • how can the arts help make climate change and sustainability
    visceral and personal and move people — emotionally and physically — to work toward a sustainable and flourishing future?
HOW WE DO IT

Our work is based on social science research that teaches us

to have effective action,

you have to have a combination of cognition and affect
— or mind and heart —

working together and not separately or alone.

Our activities bring together the affective power of the arts and humanities
with the cognitive power of science and other disciplines, linked with sustainability support

to inspire, ignite, and make possible personal and social change.

WHAT WE’VE DONE

We began as EcoArts, co-producing festivals from 2006–2008, with as
many as 25 organizations at a time.

In 2009, we shifted from producing festivals to programs and projects,
changing our name to EcoArts Connections to better reflect what we do, and respond to the needs and people we serve.

WHERE WE DO IT

Our activities have happened mostly in Colorado,

and sometimes nationally or internationally,

in theatres, museums, galleries, schools, science centers, libraries, conferences,

buses, wind farms, nature, coal-fired power plants, and vehicle emissions testing booths, wind farms, and nature.

Since 2013, we’ve also co-created activities in manufactured housing
communities

with, by, and for youth and families.

WHY WE THINK IT’S IMPORTANT

None of us has all of the answers.

All of us have some of them.

For all our activities, we start with a seed of an idea

that is then expanded, shaped, and improved with, by, and for our collaborators

in mutually beneficial relationships that vary greatly

depending on all our resources, time, skills, needs, and interests and together we move forward

doing things none of us could on our own.

Photo credits coming soon.