Put in your 2 cents.  Join our 

Arts For Earth Foundation THINK TANK for the Environmental Arts

The Arts For Earth Foundation is a 501c.3 non-profit whose mission is to use the arts (visual, literary and performance) to promote, educate and encourage sustainable living in our local community and beyond.  ...to use passion to create compassion.   The range of our artists and activities is quite broad. Here are a few examples from many ...

                              Sarah Jenks Flesher

                                         Sigrid Orlette

Barbara Murray, Andrea Mendoza, Chalee

Connections with community

Chalee

Meredith Newcom,   Judd Kennedy

C-Wolf DeZign

Michelle Nosco

Ray Harris, Brent Hanson, Marion Woods

Mark Tovar

Good News Films, JoAnne Martillo

    William Winbush 

Mariana Peirano Royuela

Dianne Bennett,    Michele Foster

Julianne Case,

Michelle Nosco

Meredith Newcom

Ruane Condrone

Mark Tovar

MaryJo Murphy

Michelle Nosco

Andrea Vargas-Mendoza

Starting May 1st, to celebrate our 11th anniversary, Arts For Earth Foundation (AFEF) is holding several creative  ThinkTank sessions in which environmental groups present information on current or future projects to a small group selected from Arts For Earth Foundation artists who in turn will brainstorm ways to help with the visual, performance and literary arts..
     We begin when the eco presenter indicates a need for:
1.outreach (education & hands on workshops) 
2.public awareness(call for community support)
3.fundraising (fiscal support)
4.call to volunteers 
5.artwork, design work, music, specific performances, written word, film, plays

Our group will brainstorm ideas within their fields of expertise, share the project with our greater community of artists, writers, filmakers & performers then work with the environmentalists to develop solutions to help further their project(s).*   We are the non-profit version of a marketing agency.

The public can a.)come to us for inspiration, b.)we can go to them for outreach education and  c.)we can discover environmental solutions together.  These events may include:
1.art exhibits of photography and/or paintings to be auctioned to raise awareness and create funding
2.written prose, calls to action(marketing) or poetry to create a feel for (or awareness of) the issue and environment.  These may further the cause when recited, printed or spread through social media
3.call to artists for specific design requests (using any of the arts:visual, performance  and literary arts) these requests may include posters, bumper stickers, video's.  
4.performance arts are a wonderful way to create awareness, educate and for fundraising.  They may include concerts, performances and workshop's.

Good News Films, JoAnne Chase Matillo

   *A budget and timeline will be developed per event/project.  Cost of each project will determine if we need to acquire grants, private support or ask for volunteers and donations .  Any costs required of the environmental group recipient would be discussed and approved in advance if necessary or available.  A partnership agreement or MOU will need to be in place before any actual work commences to acknowledge our mutual goals.

Arts For Earth Foundation was conceived  by Michelle Nosco and founded in May of 2005 when we obtained our official 501c.3 non-profit status while working with the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve and its oversight committee including the Sierra Club, Audubon Society, Tree People, LA River Conservancy, California Wildlife Center, CA Native Plant Society, Army Corps of Engineers and more.  Our headquarters were in Glendale and the Frazier Mountain Community.  As of 2012 we are centered in Ventura California.  
     Since its inception, AFEF has sponsored Earth Day Festivals and exhibits, shaped conservation outreach for the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Reserve, the California Wildlife Center, the Mountain Communities Boys and Girls Club, Pine Mountain Learning Center, and the  USForest Service Los Padres National Forest Milpotrero Ranger Station visitor center and native plant garden design.  In Ventura we are partners in the Ventura County Climate Hub working with member groups to bring heart to their science.  Head quartered at the WAV Ventura, we hosted 73 artists from across the US in a 150 piece EARTH SPIRIT exhibit and concert series October 2015.   Each weekend while open to the public we featured the projects of various environmental groups in the gallery for visitor outreach and education in sustainable living .

the presidents message:    "I see artists of all kinds using their passion to open up the hearts of their viewers. Helping people to care again when they've given up and closed down. Helping people feel gives hope and a desire to become connected again. In the best case scenario the arts can inspire people into action and to live the life they feel is impossible or inaccessible. Take the bike, take an extra minute with others, give and go the extra mile as if in another's shoes. literary, performance and visual arts are created by people who believe in themselves enough to actually be in action. Often times the inspiration comes when the viewer says "I can do that too".