Heidi Quante
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 Heidi Quante, Paris 2015. |
Heidi Quante is an interdisciplinary artist who has been designing environmental and human rights public engagement initiatives since 2003. Her passion is to devise new art forms that engage the public in the pressing social and environmental issues of our time.[1][2][3]
Early life and education[]
Heidi Quante attended the University of California, Berkeley and received both a bachelor of art in cultural anthropology and a bachelor of science in ecology.[4]
Career[]
Her artwork is divided into two practices. One is personal, exploring her emotional and physical interactions with the changing environment. The other consciously engages the public in participatory artworks ranging in size from one on one personal interactions to large scale global participatory artworks.[5][6] Her artworks often address social and environmental issues like climate change.. Examples of Quante's public participatory artworks include HighWaterLine 2.0 and The Bureau of Linguistical Reality.
Organizations[]
Creative Catalysts[]
Quante founded Creative Catalysts in 2013. Creative Catalysts collaborates with experts from diverse disciplines: art, science, community organizing and multimedia to design new initiatives for social challenges including climate change. Their initiatives seek to raise awareness, inspire dialogue and spark action on pressing social and environmental issues.
High Water Line[]
Quante is the co director of High Water Line which supports individuals and communities at various levels to help them realize this innovative way of visualizing climate change.[7]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ^ "Keynote: The American Association for the Advancement of Science and Bay Area Art and Science Interdisciplinary Collaborative Sessions June 14, 2015".
- ^ "On Becoming Earthlings: Dialogues & Exercises in Shrinking and Expanding the Human, Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France, November 21, 2015".
- ^ "Future Conditional: Artists at COP21 by Arts Research Ctr". December 11, 2015.
- ^ "Heidi Quante". Linked In.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) sponsored Science in the Arts Symposium November 6, 2015".
- ^ "Heidi Quante, The Summit of Creatives, ArtCOP21, Paris, France, December 10 2015".
- ^ "About – HighWaterLine". Retrieved September 25, 2020.
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