Abstract

PERCENT FOR GREEN deals with looking at climate change in the Bronx and how art can serve community. It is a social practice art project that has consisted of roundtables, workshops, and planning with Bronx-based grassroots organizations for the People’s Climate March in 2014. It entails the creation of a functioning green bill created by participants through art. The goal is to pass a bill allotting funds from city-funded construction projects to sustainable green initiatives overseen by small grassroots organizations in Environmental Justice (EJ) communities in New York City. This chapter considers education as a possible medium in social practice projects and takes a close look on the idea of learning, collective consciousness, US educational trends, and how social practice art appears within this backdrop.

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