Earth Day Mural Call for Entries
The theme of CEC’s 2021 Virtual Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival is Climate Leadership. The event celebrates key areas where climate leaders are stepping up to do the critical work needed to combat the climate crisis. We are proud of this new partnership, designed to showcase Climate Leadership through art, inspired by Amanda Gorman, the National Youth Poet Laureate, and her poem Earthrise.
After a turbulent and socially distant year, CEC aims to connect deeper with the vibrant community of artists in our region. This event offers an important opportunity to bring the climate crisis to an even wider audience – through the medium of art. In that spirit, CEC has partnered up with the Wildling Museum for an Earth Day themed poetry contest and Santa Barbara Channelkeeper’s annual "What the Channel Means to Me” student art contest – open to high school students in the county.
Submit your concept by
March 31 at 5:00 p.m.
If you’re a Santa Barbara County artist, we invite you to submit a proposal for a mural that expresses what Earth Day and Climate Leadership mean to you.
One concept will be selected to appear on the Paseo Nuevo Arts Terrace Parking Deck, which is on the exterior wall of the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara.
The selected artist, or artist group, will receive a stipend and a materials budget to paint their mural between April 19-23, 2021. The completed mural will be revealed on the final day of the Santa Barbara Earth Day Festival, April 24!
The Earth Day Mural Call For Entries is hosted in partnership by Community Environmental Council (CEC), The Arts Fund, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Paseo Nuevo, and Santa Barbara BCycle.
MURAL PROJECT SPONSORS
Community Environmental Council (CEC)
Recognized as a 2020 California Nonprofit of the Year and 2020 City of Santa Barbara Climate Hero, CEC has worked since 1970 to incubate and innovate real life environmental solutions that directly affect the California Central Coast. Our current work advances rapid and equitable solutions to the climate crisis – including ambitious zero carbon goals, drawdown of excess carbon, and protection against the impacts of climate change. Our programs lead to clean vehicles, solar energy, resilient food systems and reduction of single-use plastic.
The Arts Fund
The mission of The Arts Fund is to create, fund and administer programs and projects that foster the arts for the people of Santa Barbara County; to act as a catalyst which maximizes the effectiveness of arts resources and to nurture collaborative relationships with other arts organizations.
Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB)
MCASB seeks to enrich lives and inspire critical thinking through meaningful engagement with the art and ideas of our time. MCASB provides Santa Barbara and the Central Coast with exhibitions and programming that encourage discovery, cultivate new perspectives, and challenge the way we see and experience the world, ourselves, and each other.
Paseo Nuevo
Owned by Pacific Retail Capital Partners (PRCP), Paseo Nuevo is your outdoor shopping destination in the heart of downtown Santa Barbara. PRCP arts is dedicated to engaging the public through implementing one-of-a-kind, community responsive exhibitions, artist commissions, and educational programs tailored to the personality of each property, elevating each center’s unique design and honoring community through accessible touchpoints and cultural vibrancy.
Santa Barbara BCycle
Located in the heart of Downtown Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara BCycle LLC delivers a best-in-class bike share system for the City of Santa Barbara and is committed to providing an environmentally sustainable transportation alternative for cities.