Art Inspector

SAVING THE EARTH BY CHANGING ART The Art Inspector is a third party certification agent that examines the environmental impact of art process and practice. Art Inspector works with interested agents such as curators, artists, collectors, and others in order to pre-qualify artists who pass a standard of environmental stewardship. In addition to the certification process and the Healthy Art program, the Art Inspector is lobbying art media such as Art Forum and other sanctioned institutions to publish work that passes inspection and further to refuse publication of toxic art. This strategy is modeled after campaigns such as “No-Sweat,” where university bookstores opt out of purchasing from sweatshops. There is also the “Eco-Buy” program where government agencies purchase sustainable and green products whenever possible. The media’s influence on art culture can drive the art market to become environmentally resilient. Art can have commodity component and is therefore subject to basic economic principles. This campaign will shift the demand for environmentally resilient made art to create a greater ratio of the Healthy Art supply.