The Environment Art and Human Security (eARTh) Studio supports artistic endeavors on pressing environment, sustainability and human security issues. The studio promotes artist collaborations with scientists and environmental and human security practitioners. The studio also supports artist field research, performances and festivals that aim to advance sustainability and increase human security around the world.
EARTH Studio Artist in South Sudan
The EARTH Studio Founding Artist/ Program Director, Pamela Donohoo, will be in South Sudan for two weeks.
South Sudan became the newest country in the world on July 9, 2011 after gaining independence from the North. Pamela will be in a remote region near the Ilemi Triangle, a disputed border region between South Sudan, Kenya and Ethiopia. Because millions of people were displaced during the 20 year civil war this area has become a place where a number of ethnic groups intersect. Pamela is going to South Sudan to look at ways of empowering and protecting the world’s most vulnerable communities while fulfilling her artistic vision of inspiring critical thinking, innovation and empowerment around global issues and sustainable peace.
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Women, War, and Peace Project
During “Women, War and Peace” presented by the Center for Living Peace eARTh Studio Founding Artist, Pamela Donohoo, performed an improvisational dance while simultaneously creating a 9′x9′ painting that captured movements informed and inspired by the experience of women in conflict zones. The performance was part of a lager discussion led by PBS as they launched their series on Women War and Peace. After creating two paintings the eARTh Studio sent one painting to a women’s health and empowerment organization in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that helps women who have been victums of sexual violence due to war. The other painting is being mounted at the Center for Living Peace as a symbol of solidarity.
