S.O.S. Pledge

 

Model after the The Pledge of Allegiance, this more eco conscious pledge will ensure that we work as a team and every small efforts counts, in an effort to save our only home, earth. Please sign the pledge below.


 

List updated September 26, 2011:

Adam Lough, Philadelphia
Alda Leung, Brooklyn
Amelia Harder, Brooklyn
Amy Lipton, New York
Brooke Pulver, East Moriches
Carol Flaitz, Newburgh
Fely Muliadi, Beijing
Friend Wells, Los Angeles, California
Hatto Fischer, Athens, Greece
Joan Baron, Scottsdale, Arizona
Kelly Kuwabara, Brooklyn
Krista Saunders, New York City
Ashley Abess, New York
Suzanne Pinckney, New York
Tyler Haugen, Berkeley
Kas Shield, Vancouver
Andrew Meyer, San Antonio
Jane Ragavan, Kuala Lumpur
Marilyn Fenn, Austin
Tarsha Gary, Houston

Laura Lynch, Santa Barbara
Lennon Jno-Baptiste, Brooklyn
Mark Gohmann Bigelow
Marna Chester, Brooklyn
Matthias Stief, Berlin
Megan Myers, Brooklyn
Patricia Watts, Los Angeles
Penny Yuen, Kuala Lumpur
Ray Felix, Bronx, NYC
Stacy Levy, Spring Mills, PA
Sant Khalsa, San Bernardino
Sue Francis, Los Angeles
Blanka Amezkua, Athens
Raviva Hanser, Brooklyn
Jennifer Melder, Queens
Lisa Schubert, New York
Elizabeth Leader, Buffalo
Lisa Lee, Chicago
Nikee Huntington, Santa Rosa

Suzan Shutan, New Haven
Zea Morvitz, Inverness
Alyce Santoro, Marfa, TX
Bridgette Francis, Staten Island
Munkao, Kuala Lumpur
Nicki Wong, Shanghai
Stacey Benoit, Romainville, France
Stan Cooper, Cambria
Steve Williams, Venice
Susan Osberg, Beacon
Wheni Bunny, Surabaya
Susan Suntree, Santa Monica
Deb Haugen, Malibu
Prema Weichun, Staten Island
Geoffrey Salvatore, Ann Arbor
Helen Gifford, Sag Harbor
Elizabeth Thacker Jones, Brooklyn
Malcolm Sumisu, Houston
Scott Woolsey, Norwich

 

S.O.S. Pledge at PS971, Brooklyn, New York

S.O.S. Pledge is an appropriation of The Pledge of Allegiance with a more green mission. This white Carrara Venatino Marble mural is 10 ft. high and 27 ft 9 in. wide. It is etched in with text that is painted gold. This artwork will engage and encourage young student to be a green steward when they attend school and walk by the lobby everyday. Understanding what we can do and change in our own live, even our action might be small, but our collective efforts and impact will be big. The school is a new 379-seat early childhood center which serves children in pre-K through second grade is also part of The Green Schools Alliance.

 

Title: S.O.S. Pledge, 2010
Artist: Tattfoo Tan
Location: PS971, 6214 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11220
Material: White Carrara Venatino Marble, gold paints
Dimension: 10 ft. high and 27 ft 9 in. wide

Commissioned by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program
and the NYC School Construction Authority Public Art for Public Schools Program.
Collection of the NYC Department of Education. #10055

Project manage by Myung Hyun Lim of NY Stone Manhattan
Etching by Nick Carolla of Stone-Craft
Installation by Dennis Lynch of Great Point Stone
Fabricated by Jonathan Mitnick of CCS Stone, Inc.
Etching stencil by Andrew Cleffi of Creative Stone Design













Ecotone Community Garden adopted S.O.S. Pledge to engage it audience. 

 

Project Row Houses Dupree Sculpture Park is engaging park goers with S.O.S. Pledge.

 

 

Contain, Maintain, Sustain

A group exhibition that takes stock of the ways in which concerns around
sustainability are being articulated and visualized by contemporary artists today.

curated by

Sara Reisman, Director, Percent for Art Program, New York City, Department of Cultural Affairs
Welmoed Laanstra, Public Art Projects, Curator, Arlington Cultural Affair
Ernesto Santalla, AIA, LEED AP, Studio Santalla Inc.

May 19 - July 17, 2011
Reception: Thurs, May 19/7–10pm

Terrace Gallery at Artisphere
1101 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington VA 22209
Gallery Hours: Mon–Sat, 11am–9pm; Sun, 11am–6pm
www.artisphere.com

Participating artists:

Jane Benson, Michael Booker, Greg Braun, Carlos Bunga, Michael Cataldi, Ronit Eisenbach, Gregory Euclide,
Tom Greaves, Rachel Higgins, Christopher K. Ho, Mariah Anne Johnson, Morgana King, Barbara Liotta, LoVid,
Mary Mattingly, Jens Praet, Cordy Ryman, Katrín Sigurdardóttir, Dan Steinhilber, Tattfoo Tan, Katja Toporsk,
Lina Vargas De La Hoz, Julia von Eichel and Ishmael Randall Weeks

 

 

S.O.S. Pledge as temporary tattoo