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The Carbon Footprint of Art

Posted on June 07, 2008

I spent the last few days in Washington, DC, a guest of the National Endowment for the Arts. Not many people know this, but design -- particularly architectural and built-environment design -- falls within the purview of the NEA. This last week, the NEA design group held its selection panel for the Access to Artistic Excellence - Innovation funding, and I served as the official layperson on the panel.(It turns out that NEA funding panels include one person from outside the discipline -- the layperson -- to ensure that the awards go to projects with appeal beyond the specialists.)I can't ...

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