ecoartspace is one of the leading international organizations in a growing community of artists, scientists, curators, writers, nonprofits and businesses who are developing creative and innovative strategies to address our global environmental issues. We promote a diverse range of artworks that are participatory, collaborative, interdisciplinary and uniquely educational. Our philosophy embodies a broader concept of art in its relationship to the world and seeks to connect human beings aesthetically with the awareness of larger ecological systems.

Founded in 1997 by Tricia Watts as an art and nature center in development, ecoartspace was one of the first websites online  dedicated to art and environmental issues. New York City curator  Amy Lipton joined Watts in 1999, and together they have curated numerous exhibitions, participated on panels, given lectures at universities, developed programs and curricula, and written essays  for publications from both the East and West Coasts. They advocate for international artists whose projects range from scientifically based ecological restoration to product based functional artworks, from temporal works created outdoors with nature to eco-social interventions in the urban public sphere, as well as more traditional art objects.

ecoartspace has been a project of the Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs in
Los Angeles since 1999.

West Coast/ San Francisco

Tricia Watts

Tricia Watts has researched art and nature practitioners since 1994. She founded ecoartspace in 1997 and launched the first website dedicated to providing a platform for artists addressing ecological concerns in 1998. She has been invited to participate as panelist at numerous conferences and has given lectures at art departments internationally. Watts curated Bug-Eyed: Art, Culture, Insects for the Turtle Bay Exploration Park in Redding, California (2004-5) and organized a site-specific temporary public art installation entitled Windsock Currents on Crissy Field in the Presidio (San Francisco) for UN World Environment Day (2005). Watts is currently Chief Curator at the Sonoma County Museum in Santa Rosa, California. She received her MA in Exhibition Design/Museum Studies from California State University, Fullerton, and has a BA in Business Administration from Stephens College, Missouri. {Download of watts resume}

East Coast/ New York City

Amy Lipton

Amy Lipton began her career as a gallerist in New York City’s East Village (1986), and later in Soho until 1995. She has curated over one hundred exhibitions, written for books and publications, organizes and participates on panel discussions, and lectures frequently on art and the environment. Lipton was curator of Ecovention, an exhibition including 32 ecological artists at the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, Ohio (2002), and Imaging the River, an exhibition focusing on contrasting historical and contemporary artists' views at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY (2004). She organized Reconstructing Ecologies at the Guggenheim Museum, and Human/Nature: Art and the Environment, an ongoing series of exhibitions and discussions in collaboration with The Nature Conservancy which brings artists and scientists together. Lipton was formerly Curator of Exhibitions at Abington Art Center & Sculpture Park near Philadelphia. Currently she is Director of The Fields Sculpture Park at Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, NY. She received her BFA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. {Download of lipton resume}