GREEN ARTIST

We applied for this project to stimulate creativity and cultural awareness in a post-covid context, which raises questions about our relationship with nature and art. We felt it was necessary to explore creativity for a public far removed from culture through innovative and resilient practices. That's why the Green Art project is part of the 'eco-art' movement, enabling us to explore and model cultural proposals in unusual places, using resilient practices for up-and-coming artists. The Green Artist project has thus served as a 'living laboratory' for testing, theorising and modelling reproducible ecological art practices for so-called vulnerable audiences. Our project is also part of a social inclusion approach. Indeed, the project's artistic experience has enabled us to develop proposals to professionalise artists in terms of eco-art: artists with disabilities, up-and-coming artists and audiences far removed from culture. More broadly, the project aims to change the way people look at disability, by advocating for artists with disabilities.

The aim of the project was to encourage artistic creation for and by vulnerable people through an ecological art approach. We wanted to give impetus to the development of creation and the professionalisation of ecological art practices by vulnerable groups, with a view to gaining recognition for these new talents. To do this, we set ourselves the goal of encouraging creative work based on a naturalist approach, for and by vulnerable people in unusual locations, supporting new talent and professionalising these approaches. So the general aim was to take over the public space (real and virtual) to boost the inclusive cultural offer and respond to the societal expectations raised by eco-art. This general objective was broken down into several operational objectives: - To encourage the inclusive creation of eco-art in unusual locations - Produce tools to pass on and disseminate to the target audience, support workers and the general public. - Support new talent and professionalise eco-art practices

To achieve this result, we felt it was important to bring together the expertise of three organisations from 3 Member States (France, Belgium and Greece) whose activities and analyses are similar. The transnational dimension ensured that the intellectual output and results were enriched.

The Green Artist project enabled us to test and experiment with a number of eco-art activities and to formalise 6 intellectual outputs to capitalise on all the expertise accumulated throughout the project. As a result, we were able to produce 6 outputs: a vade mecum on eco-art, a plea for ecological and inclusive art, an adventure story about Green Artist, a digital booklet with 12 challenges in the form of video capsules, a trainer's manual to support the professionalisation of artists with intellectual disabilities and a viral eco-art campaign to raise awareness of eco-art among the general public. All these intellectual productions have been designed to complement each other, enrich each other and respond to each other. All the creations have been tested and validated by our experts in each field with a panel of vulnerable groups (people with disabilities and the socially disadvantaged) and artists in the 3 European countries at meetings and workshops held in France (April 2022), Belgium (February 2023) and Greece (October 2023). This has ensured the quality and practical usefulness of our productions, as well as overall coherence. These results can be downloaded from our website in the 3 languages of the project.