About Beauty of Water
Mission & Objectives
Beauty of Water is a multi-year project dedicated to expanding human appreciation for water through multi-level collaboration and publicly accessible artistic expression, so as to stimulate positive shifts in existing paradigms that harm water, and inspire creative solutions that support health of water all around the planet. To carry out it’s mission, Beauty of Water:
1. Facilitates new artistic expression of appreciation for water by identifying and supporting a multi-talented artist in communities around the world who collaborates with his or her community to produce an art piece on this theme.
2. Develops partnerships to share ideas and resources with other organizations whose missions are congruent with ours from the fields of academia and education, the environment, community arts, activism, global community development, and consciousness and spirituality.
3. Engages, inspires and educates the general public by offering service activities and by bringing together the art contributions for a touring installation that is open to the public.
4. Cultivates collaboration models that embrace environmental
sustainability and creative, holistically healthy work environments.
Foundations
We believe... The planet and life upon it are worth saving. All life is interconnected. Healthy water is inseparable from healthy life. We are more likely to take care of our water sources the more we recognize our vital relationship with them. Human beings are innately highly creative and capable of positive and innovative thinking. Restoring and enhancing harmony between the human species and living systems on the planet requires innovative, paradigm-shifting, holistically aware measures. Diversity is foundational to paradigm-shifting transformation. Appreciation inspires, motivates, builds morale, and cultivates openness to possibility. Artistic expression combines celebration of existence with opportunity to affect transformation. Partnership and collaboration are pathways to win-win solutions that may not otherwise evolve. Fiscal and operational responsibility ensure the success of Beauty of Water.
Methodological Influences
Inspirations
- Burners Without Borders
- Dr. Masaru Emoto
- Green Museum
- Anna Halprin
- Shelley Sacks; Social Sculpture
- WiserEarth
- Women's Earth Alliance
- Exchange Values
- University of the Trees
- The Co-Intelligence Institute
- Institute of Noetic Sciences
- Art in the Public Interest
- Community Arts Network
- South Florida Environmental Art Project, Inc.
- World Festival of Sacred Music Los Angeles
Beauty of Water was founded by Liza Behrendt in February, 2006. Liza is an artist and social change agent.