Instructions: Each of your responses will be graded not only for its mastery of content, but also upon its efficacy as an academic essay.  As such, it is expected that each response include an introduction with a thesis statement, body paragraphs which build upon each other, and a conclusion.  Additionally, it is imperative that you use precise information when supporting your claims – remember to always cite your sources. Finally, proofread and edit your responses to ensure that your writing is clear, concise, and fully answers the prompt. Please do not plagiarize from the web. We check and if we do discover plagiarism we will immediately report it.  For writing assistance, you may want to contact Learning Support Services (located in the Academic Resource Center). Formatting Papers: 400 words minimum (2 page maximum) response  per prompt (1200 word minimum in total for all three responses) Number your essays so that we understand which prompt (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) you are answering List all citations on a separate page, keeping the works cited page specific to and directly after each prompt question response (3 separate works cited pages) Helvetica or Times New Roman, 12 point Double spaced 1 inch margin on all sides (No header with name, title etc) Saved as .pdf Please choose three of these six questions to answer. EACH answer must be at least four paragraphs (400 words) but no longer than two pages. Each page should be double spaced, Times, 12pt. What does “What you do to the land you do to your body” mean and where did it come from? (Some independent research might be necessary here.) Discuss three artists whose artwork directly addresses the concepts in this statement. In your answer be sure to describe at least one artwork by each artist and clearly state how the artworks relate to the statement.  Pick one environmental artist (eco-artist) that has been part of the modules so far. Do some outside research on them and explore their website and artworks. Choose one of their artworks to discuss, paying careful attention to choose one that has not mentioned so far in the readings/interviews/modules. Clearly state what materials and methods they use to make their artwork. Describe what influenced the artwork. Explain how this work can be or is considered environmental art? Use Linda Weintraub's readings to help you to define environmental art (eco-art) and defend your arguments as to how the work can be considered environmental art. Also look at other writings and articles to help understand and explain the context in which the artist makes their work.  How have different artists used walking to activate connections to land/landscape and how can artists represent an environmental issue through walking? Please name at least 2 specific artists we have discussed in class and cite examples of their walking pieces. Describe how these artists use embodiment in their work and are they effective in terms of heightening awareness.

1. Instructions:
Each of your responses will be graded not only for its mastery
of content, but also upon its efficacy as an academic essay. As
such, it is expected that each response include an introduction
with a thesis statement, body paragraphs which build upon each
other, and a conclusion. Additionally, it is imperative that you
use precise information when supporting your claims –
remember to always cite your sources. Finally, proofread and
edit your responses to ensure that your writing is clear, concise,
and fully answers the prompt. Please do not plagiarize from the
web. We check and if we do discover plagiarism we will
immediately report it.
For writing assistance, you may want to contact Learning
Support Services (located in the Academic Resource Center).
Formatting Papers:
400 words minimum (2 page maximum) response
per prompt
(1200 word minimum in total for all three responses)
Number your essays so that we understand which prompt (1, 2,
3, 4, 5, 6) you are answering
List all citations on a separate page, keeping the works cited
page specific to and directly after each prompt question
response (3 separate works cited pages)
Helvetica or Times New Roman, 12 point

2. Double spaced
1 inch margin on all sides (No header with name, title etc)
Saved as .pdf
Please
choose three
of these six questions to answer. EACH answer must be at least
four paragraphs (400 words) but no longer than two pages. Each
page should be double spaced, Times, 12pt.
What does “What you do to the land you do to your body” mean
and where did it come from? (Some independent research might
be necessary here.) Discuss three artists whose artwork directly
addresses the concepts in this statement. In your answer be sure
to describe at least one artwork by each artist and clearly state
how the artworks relate to the statement.
Pick one environmental artist (eco-artist) that has been part of
the modules so far. Do some outside research on them and
explore their website and artworks. Choose one of their
artworks to discuss, paying careful attention to choose one that
has not mentioned so far in the readings/interviews/modules.
Clearly state what materials and methods they use to make their
artwork. Describe what influenced the artwork. Explain how
this work can be or is considered environmental art? Use Linda
Weintraub's readings to help you to define environmental art
(eco-art) and defend your arguments as to how the work can be
considered environmental art. Also look at other writings and
articles to help understand and explain the context in which the
artist makes their work.

3. How have different artists used walking to activate connections
to land/landscape and how can artists represent an
environmental issue through walking? Please name at least 2
specific artists we have discussed in class and cite examples of
their walking pieces. Describe how these artists use embodiment
in their work and are they effective in terms of heightening
awareness of the environment? Refer to Rebecca Solnit’s “The
Mind at Three Miles and Hour” to inform your thinking. How is
walking relevant (or irrelevant) to environmental art? Be
specific and discuss artists’ work that you have seen or read
about in class. For example, you might discuss how Yolande
Harris’s walking piece or Richard Long’s work heightens
awareness and relates to Solnit’s text.
What is Earth Art (as described in our readings, interviews and
in the film the Troublemakers) in comparison to Environmental
or Ecological Art? Compare and contrast these two art
categories. How are they both similar and different? What goals
do they attempt to achieve? Are they successful or not? Then,
compare and contrast Smithson’s “Monuments of Passaic” to
Newton Harrison’s Future Garden project. Use the Harrisons’
writing from the Force Majeure and compare/contrast it with
Robert Smithson's essay. Also feel free to discuss the
Serpentine Lattice or the Santa Fe Drain Basin videos (both can
be found on the Harrisons’ website), with the Troublemakers
(which is available on the library’s Kanopy media collection).
To avoid writing the same paper as the first response paper, feel
free to focus only on the Harrison's "Serpentine Lattice" vs
Smithson's “Monuments of Passaic." You can compare and
contrast the two different strategies and how the artist's works
reflect those strategies.
How do affect and empathy function in environmental art?
Compare and contrast the work of Kathy High with Natasha
Meyers’ Sensing Botanical Sensoria. Feel free to mention some

4. of the work made by artists who are working with plants and/or
animals who create empathy with the animal or plant worlds.
Why is this important? How have environmental artists used
empathy and feeling in their work and why? Is this an effective
strategy? Be specific in your answers.
What role to galleries, curators and spaces such as the UC
Reserves play in terms of presenting both Earth Artists,
Ecological and Environmental Artists to audiences. Why are
they important or not? Name three different art exhibition
strategies that exhibition spaces use to show work and discuss
how they are or are not effective in terms of presenting artists
to the public at large. Which of these galleries/spaces would
you like to show your work in and why? Be very specific in
naming the places and the artists that they show. Feel free to
also talk about the role of archives as well but if you do, name
the archives you are talking about.
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