ART TO ENGAGE COMMUNITIES WITH NATURE & WATER
RIPE AREA is a groundbreaking project to promote community engagement about water and riparian ecosystems through integrating the arts and environmental learning. The project aims to cultivate a deeper sense of responsibility for natural systems threatened by human-caused climate change. Access to clean water is the most vital issue governing our shared survival. Persevering through drought, habitat degradation, and climate crises is challenging, and even more so for those facing economic and social hardships.
Art can support communities to envision inclusive and resilient solutions in the face of challenges, and to take action.
RIPE AREA offered more than 20 hands-on, no-cost workshops and pop-up events led by practicing artists in compelling forms of expression--poetry and prose writing, Indigenous storytelling and song, nature field recording in riparian environments, visual art making, sourcing native plants and preparing wild foods.
In Partnership
RIPE AREA is a collaborative project of Myrtle Tree Arts and American River Conservancy (ARC). ARC has been serving our communities since 1989 by preserving healthy ecosystems within the upper American River and upper Cosumnes River watersheds through land conservation, stewardship, and education.
RIPE AREA is funded in part by the California Arts Council and the Capital Region Creative Corps Program grant of Sacramento Office of Arts and Culture, with support from the City of Sacramento.
