Our Programs

Robert Rauschenberg, 1st Earth Day Poster, via the National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/news/articles/earth-day-50-featured-document

Everywhere, Everyday Earth Day:

As the birthplace of Robert Rauschenberg, we pay tribute to his role as the creator of the original Earth Day posters. Through a radical understanding of the origins of Earth Day - its science, its civics, and its visual identity - as well as an introduction to the roles that local activists like Karen Silkwood played in advancing community rights for health, labor, and the environment, we inspire a new generation of artists, advocates, and civic leaders to think creatively and critically about their local environments.
We hope to scale out this project across Texas-based college and high school campuses and to be able to award prizes for best-in-show projects.

Early project prototype: here, created by students at T.J. Middle School, Port Arthur Texas.

In collaboration with local arts institutions, we invite friend-participants from around the world to engage with us by drawing and /or writing us postcards about their own direct environmental observations.
We hope to develop arts exhibits for these with institutions such as the Climate Justice Museum in Houston, TX and the Art Museum of Southeast Texas in Beaumont, TX.
We are also eager to develop this project in conjunction with members of our armed forces, as a way to increase a connection to home — even when stationed far away.

Example postcard on the left, from our friend — Navy Veteran and former Commanding Officer, Miles Graham.

Our magazine collects submissions once a year. We use it to organically create unseen community, to provide publishing opportunities to emerging artists and established advocates alike, and to partner with strong collaborative organizations who have a stake in our eco-region and beyond.
As a youth-focused engagement organization, we include voters guides and similar resources for upcoming local, statewide, and national elections.
In the future, we hope to publish a physical magazine (or at the very least, selections) and to work with local cultural institutions to host live launch events that include voter registration opportunities.

We use social media-based and in-person events to build people power and emotional-social safety nets for anyone interested in learning more about the ins and outs of Texas-based environmental advocacy and conservation education — from vocab, to government processes, to how the energy transition works, to conservation concepts, and more.

We previously attempted a project combining contemporary oral histories, archival footage, landscape images, and future idealizations.
Currently on hiatus because early attempts were machine-heavy, financially and programmatically burdensome (considering current capacity), and didn’t have the right “vibe.”
Hopefully will have capacity to do this in the future!