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Glass Artist Honors Endangered Birds
Honoring the Future contributing artist Toots Zynsky is internationally renowned for creating richly colored, exquisitely textured and sensuously curved fused glass vessels. Her newest series of vessels – termed “Endangered Species” – highlight the peril birds face...
Sculpture Sounds “Global Warning” During Venice Biennale
Honoring the Future is partnering with internationally renowned sculptor Dalya Luttwak to present a sculpture in Venice, Italy on the occasion of the prestigious 2018 Architecture Biennale. Titled Global Warning: First Tropical Mangrove in Venice, the sculpture is...
Mixed Media Artist Wins Honoring the Future Sustainability® Award at Smithsonian Craft Show
Prize Recognizes Artist’s Work on Climate Change A West Hurley, NY artist, Mary Jane Piccuirro, won the “Honoring the Future® Sustainability Award” at the prestigious 2018 Smithsonian Craft Show in Washington, DC. The national award, which comes with a...
Artists Find Beauty in Minimizing and Repurposing Waste
Pioneering craft artists are enthusiastically embracing the ancient adage, “waste not, want not,” creating beautiful, conservation-inspired art in the process. Several of the foremost practitioners of this approach will exhibit their art at the Smithsonian...
Seventeen Artists Showcase Sustainability at Smithsonian Craft Show
Artists Vie for Honoring the Future® Sustainability Award Seventeen artists from 10 States applied for the “Honoring the Future® Sustainability Award,” which will be presented at preview night April 25, prior to the April 26 opening of the 2018 Smithsonian...
Honoring the Future Screens Virtual Reality Film For Smithsonian Women’s Committee
On March 9, 2018, the library of the iconic 19th century Smithsonian Castle reverberated with the sights and sounds of the latest virtual reality technology as seventy members of the Smithsonian Women’s Committee screened Honoring the Future’s new film, Let’s Explore....
Alexis Rockman’s Great Lakes Cycle Exhibition Tours Five States
Honoring the Future contributing artist Alexis Rockman is renowned for epic-scale paintings depicting the dystopian impacts of climate change, species extinction and eco-disasters. His most recent body of work – five years in the making – is now touring museums and...
Alaskan Journey Exhibition Opens in Historic Baltimore Church
Honoring the Future’s Alaskan Journey exhibition opened in the Reeves Gallery of historic St. Ignatius Church in Baltimore, MD on January 21, 2018 for a one month showing. The exhibition, which is free and open to the public, features photographs and watercolor prints...
Honoring the Future Partners with LaGuardia Community College
“Community colleges educate the majority of our country’s low-income, first-generation students,” wrote LaGuardia Community College President Gail O. Mellow in the New York Times. “[But] community colleges need increased funding, and students need access to more...
Sustainable Fashion Shines at Smithsonian Craft2Wear Show
Fashionistas take note: sustainable dressing is becoming increasingly easier as pioneering craft artists design ever more stunning styles from which to choose. The Smithsonian Craft2Wear Show (Oct. 5 - 7, 2017) at the National Building Museum, Washington...
Honoring the Future Salutes Contributing Climate Artist Diane Burko
Walton Arts Center Exhibition Features A Decade of Her Work “I want my art to be more than a painting/photograph to be appreciated – I want it to be used as a tool for social change and environmental policy,” says Philadelphia-based artist Diane Burko. “I want...
Newseum Selects VR Film About Climate Change Among Best New Videos
The Newseum selected Let’s Explore, Honoring the Future’s 360° virtual reality film about climate change, for inclusion in its “Top Ten Virtual Reality Videos of the Month” exhibition. The film is on view in the virtual reality kiosks of the Newseum’s Interactive...