Rebecca Schwarz

Hello!  I connect people of all ages and abilities to creativity and imaginative projects. With inspiration from nature and collective ideas I facilitate individual and group projects on environmental issues, community, and health.

Recently I have been working on artivism – combining art and activism to help people access agency, and energize collective action for climate. Other work includes sculpture and installations, mosaics, and reworking post-consumer plastics and discarded packaging to develop media literacy and creativity. Some of my work combines lighting and solar cells to create glowing artworks. I run Art from the Heart, an arts in healthcare program, connecting patients, families and hospital employees with creativity, art, and devoted volunteer time.

Artist's Satement:

All ideas, histories, and particles are interconnected and alive. 

How do we treat materials, how do we treat each other? 

What is lost, and what can be found?

I seek by creating art. Art to build knowledge, beauty, and appreciation of the spirited complexities of our world. Art to nurture biophilia, wellness, and repair. 

Focusing on ecological issues including energy, resources, and health.
 

Exploring and playing with our habits of consumption and creativity.
 

Collaborating with materials, processes, and cycles from technologic to organic growth and decay, to relating and creating with groups and individuals.

Grappling with grief, understanding, and inviting the re-envisioning of our patterned worlds – grotesque, sublime and beautiful.

 

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Action:



Community engaged projects



Integrated Designs and Installations



Teaching in complex environments and with all ages - semester long courses, one on one, in community or school group workshops, artist residencies. Sharing inspiration from patterns in nature, connecting culture and contexts, supporting creativity.