Jeremiah TEIPEN's (ACC 2001) work featured in ECO Art on Island.

Ecology is the science of the relationship between the organism and its environments; hence there should be a partnership between human culture and the physical conditions of life. This leads to enunciating contemporary artistic response to observed anthropogenic challenges to the environment.

Triune in nature, this project uniquely associates here normally disparate communities and will be led by a heterogeneous team composed of medical (psychiatric) professionals, art professionals (curators, painters, sculptors, performance artists and more), and environmental experts to develop novel approaches to ameliorating and mitigating environmental effects on human health. In no particular order, leg one is mental health; leg two is artistic expression; leg three is environmental concern. This project is tripodal in essence, but for clarity of exposition, each leg will be described separately, followed by how it will be applied to improving public heath – especially mental health - and means of measuring success of this project. Its continuation is envisioned if this experiment is successful.

Feasibility of this project will depend crucially upon support for the proposal in its entirety, thus allowing this hitherto untried experiment to proceed, for the collaborators involved have never and would not normally work together on such a venture.