The Environmental Art Movement encompasses a wide variety of
very similar phrases and art terms such as; eco-art, natural art,
green art, earth art, recycled art, sustainable art etc.
David Jakupca is responsible for enlightening everyone to the
Environmental Art Movement when the International Center for
Environmental Arts (ICEA) was founded at the ARK in Berea in 1987.
The mission of ICEA is: Assisting in the understanding of the
relationship between Humans and their Environment through the Arts
to promote a sustainable Culture of Peace.
David asserts that respect for human and environmental rights
and greater understanding between people from different racial and
religious backgrounds must be the first step of society in today's
fast-changing, globalized world.
This goal is accomplished by focusing on the creative process
and affirming that Environmental Art is a catalyst for social
change by empowering participants, transforming environments and
contributing to collective healing and economic development.
Although it is widely acknowledged that David Jakupca is the
'Spiritual Father of the Environmental Art Movement' and the
creator of the Theory of Iceality in its modern understanding, not
all of Jakupca's contemporaries accepted the new theory at
once.
However, the Theory of Iceality is now considered as the
cornerstone of the modern sustainable global Environmental Art
Movement and replicated throughout the World.
'ICEALITY" is the measure of the connection between arts, civic
engagement and the environment, which can be defined as promoting a
sustainable positive and peaceful quality of life for all the
worlds children.
