Common Threads

Sharon Kallis

Description

• Co-op available
• Excerpts offered to Maker Magazine; Orion; Yes! Magazine
• Targeted review mailing to magazines, newspapers and bloggers including The New Yorker; Green Teacher; Sustainable Living Magazine, Mother Earth Living ; Municipal World , homeschooling magazines and blogs
• Promoted to local horticultural groups, park boards and municipal councils
• Academic promotion to colleges teaching community art
• Author will attend World Domination Summit, Portland, July 2014; Maker Faires
• Promotion on New Society Publishers Facebook page, twitter and blog
• Ebook promotion with Kobo and Apple as appropriate
• Electronic galley on Edelweiss

• This book is a guide to creating community eco art installations using waste plant material with a focus on invasive species
• Modeled the quilting bee or barn raising, community eco art projects have a shared purpose, common goal and ultimately provide an excuse to meet neighbors and socialize.
• This book is a training manual that gives detailed how-to information on how to source materials, create projects and lead a local eco art project in their own community.
• Author is a graduate of the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and has been working on community eco art projects for over 12 years.
• Provides an opportunity for participants to connect with nature in a unique, meditative and community-oriented way
• Techniques are easy to use, can be done with a variety materials and require no specialist skills

Introduction

Places
Chapter 1: Work With What You Have at Hand
Chapter 2: Building for Change From the Ground Up
Chapter 3: Placemaking for Community

People
Chapter 4: Why Impermanence Matters
Chapter 5: Weaving Community Milestones
Chapter 6: Celebrations of Honor and Respect
Chapter 7: Common Threads

Plants
Chapter 8: Working with Invasive Plant Species
Chapter 9: Techniques
Chapter 10: Designing Group Projects
Chapter 11: Green Waste Logistics, Funding and Public Park Partnership

Endnotes
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author

Sujets

• Jardinage
• Jardin décoratif
• Artisanat
• Nature Crafts
• Hobbies
• Crafts
• Sociology
• Rural crafts
• Landscape architecture

Informations

• Publié par: New Society Publishers
• Date de parution: 21 mai 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 3
• EAN13: 9781897408520
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1318 Mo

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