Explore the arts as a way to connect even deeper with the outdoors or as a doorway to the outdoors.

 "Many people see with their brain.  We have preconceived ideas of what a tree or a bird looks like.  These are conventional images in our minds.  Artists train their eye to override these ingrained images and to see purely through their eyes and then record what they see, and/or what it makes them feel". By Elsie Dentes

• Learn how to create fabric collages with artist Elsie Dentes.
• Treacy Ziegler paints with incarcerated artists
  
• Birds of Brooklyn project connects urban residents with lost birds
  
• Read about photographer Rucha Chitnis' concern for habitat
• young artist Grace Elden raises $ for Gulf birds with her creations
  
• Learn how to animate your bird image, by Nancy Landrum
• a virtual collaboration between India and US  bird music video
  
• CUBs Challenges...enter or view past entries!
   
• Paint bird tiles.  It connects with a cause and kids learn more about birds.
  
• Muralist and visual artist Katie Yamasaki shows you how to create cardboard birds, take them outdoors into their natural habitat and photograph them. See activity.
  
  
• Artist Sarah Locke explores bird identification through bird mobiles.

• D.C. resident DECOY designed a project to increase of a common bird in he neighborhood.  Pigeon Neighbors
  

• Susan Kerslake made a beautiful Pigeon scrapbook
  
• See art activities for youth groups and schools.
• See art activities for home schools
• See art activities for community
  gardens
  For example: Learn how to create dyes from the plants such as asters, marigolds, and sunflowers.
  
• See art activities for libraries.

Get inspired by artists!

Professional and amateur artists across the nation are celebrating urban nature in rich and diverse ways. See their work and get inspired!