Arts Program
The OAEC Arts Program explores the connections between art education and practice, and holistic, sustainable thinking. The program strives to illuminate the essential link between observable processes in natural systems and creative processes in human beings. In addition to developing and teaching arts curricula for OAEC’s School Gardens, Permaculture and other courses, we continue to expand the on-site OAEC collection of installed artworks that demonstrate a variety of alternative materials and techniques. Beyond our courses, we are committed to weaving a thread of aesthetic awareness and artistic process throughout all our programs and activities, and to exploring creative inspiration as it relates to Nature.
In recent years, the OAEC Arts Program has grown to include performance and lecture components. In 2007 we expanded our Chautauqua series, adding musical performances during the summer; as well as adding a third day to the Chautauqua Revue, featuring theater verité, local musicians, regional oral histories, clowning, and political speech.
Contact Adam Wolpert (ext. 209) or James Pelican (ext. 208) for more information about our Arts Program.
OAEC's Arts Program includes:
- Teaching Landscape Painting and other art courses.
- Teaching Woodshop for Women and other applied carpentry and natural building courses.
- Producing Chautauqua events at our outdoor theater.
- Providing cultural and creative arts components for each of the other OAEC programs, including an arts curriculum for our School Garden trainings, and Art in the Garden workshops for other OAEC courses.
