Conservation Successes

ART & COMMUNITY LANDSCAPES

Our first report on public art projects that creatively engage communities and national park visitors in addressing their relationship to the environment. The majority of these projects were supported by a multi-year partnership between the New England Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Park
Service, Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance.

"What really unifies these 18 projects—12 in communities and 6 in units of the National Park Service—is a deeper engagement with the environment: through site-specific art, the artists invited, inspired
and sometimes challenged communities and individuals to consider how they relate to their environment. The artists and their work have influenced the stories these communities tell about themselves and the places which are important to them."

-Charles Tracy
Art & Community Landscapes
National Park Service

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