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- Alicia Lubowski-Jahn is an art history Ph.D. student at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her dissertation explores the relationship between nineteenth-century landscape art, travel, and ecology in the work of the Prussian scientist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt.
She has worked for several museums, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Frick Collection. Of Venezuelan and Uruguayan family origin, she is married to an Austrian and is always struggling to learn German. In addition to being an art historian, she likes to go with the flow and has practiced yoga and Gyrotonic® for over a decade. Her interest in eco art and sustainable design fuses her passion for creativity and beauty with a desire to live mindfully and connected to spirit. She lives in New York.
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Oh Me Oh My! The Summer Exhibition at Art Omi
The Fields Sculpture Park
at Omi International Arts Center
1405 County Rt. 22
Ghent, New York 12075
There’s always a bit more time to go see art exhibits in the summer, but it can be so hard when it’s nice out to contemplate spending a day inside. Luckily, there’s a way to do both at places like ART OMI, [...]
An Emporium of Green: Sustainable NYC
One of the best things about Sustainable NYC is that it is a little bit of everything.
This eclectic shop in the equally eclectic East Village (139 Avenue A/ 9th Street ) of Manhattan is self-described as an emporium of “local, organic, recycled, fair-trade, re-purposed, biodegradable products and gifts.” Yeah! And if that weren’t enough greening going on, [...]
Brown Paper Bags Gone Wild, Or How I Learned to Creatively Recycle my Brown Paper Bags
Joyce Robinson is an artist who has worn many hats (or, actually, purses). A former opera singer and music teacher, she now brings her soaring voice and strength of character to create the vibrant and fanciful handbags of Brown Paper Bags Gone Wild!
Robinson’s raw medium is the drab brown paper bag and with it she [...]
Design Glut: It’s Scrumdidilyumptious!
The delectable creations by Design Glut have much in common with the scrumptious confections conjured by Willy Wonka. One can almost imagine that the eggs cradled in Design Glut’s Egg Pants were laid by none other than Mr. Wonka’s golden geese. Still, it is less the designs themselves that bring us straight to the fictive Chocolate [...]
Brainforest: How Does Community Sustain Us?
Brainforest is a Chicago-based creative agency that has integrated an ethos of social service (people) and sustainability (planet) into the workplace (profit). The Triple Bottom Line seems to come effortlessly to a company that volunteers at the Greater Chicago Food Depository, dedicates pro bono service per annum to a specially selected client, including the Gilda’s Club [...]
Lauri Lyons: Political Photographer and Thought-Provoking Critic of America
The photographer Lauri Lyons is a storyteller who utilizes her photography as well as words, both hers and those of others, to recount personal and cultural journeys. Her latest project is the multimedia piece, Barack Obama and the American Dream, about the 2008 presidential election and 2009 inauguration. She has deftly woven the images and voices [...]
Pretty in Portland: Plywerk Group Show @ Olio United
They walked along listening to the singing of the brightly colored birds and looking at the lovely flowers which now became so thick that the ground was carpeted with them. There were big yellow and white and blue and purple blossoms, besides great clusters of scarlet poppies, which were so brilliant in color they almost [...]
Overlooked By the Golden Globes
The team at Free Range Studios is responsible for some amazing creative projects that put across the sustainability message. Their Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard has reached millions around the world raising awareness about the flow of objects as they move through the materials economy (breaking down the stages of stuff into extraction, production, distribution, consumption, [...]
Nomad Two Worlds: Aboriginal Australian Art in NYC
January 22-29, 2009
DONNA KARAN Stephan Weiss Studio 711 Greenwich Street (Corner of Charles Street) NYC
Urban Zen (founded by fashion designer Donna Karan) is hosting at the Stephan Weiss Studio a presentation of Australian aboriginal art and culture inspired by the Australian government’s reconciliation movement. The week-long G’Day USA Australia Week is offered in the spirit of [...]
Human/Nature: Artists Respond To A Changing Planet
If San Diego’s sunny disposition isn’t enough reason to migrate there this winter, then the city’s Human/Nature: Artists Respond To A Changing Planet exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art is certainly a special, added draw.
The show gathers the work of eight international artists, each commissioned to respond to one of eight UNESCO World Heritage Natural [...]
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