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3 5 0 S K Y: With 5000 participants, this was biggest Art For the Sky project to date! In September, 2009, students and teachers from 21 schools in Uden, Holland formed a version of their local windmill and depicted tulips for the blades to symbolize a badly needed new global vision for our relationship with the sky. 350 is the most important number in the world! Why? 350 parts per million (ppm) is the safe upper limit of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere. See 350.org for more information.The video is set to the national song for Uden's province performed during the event with special words relating to the art written by project leader, Dorry Arts.

Just One Candle: This was the first nighttime sky art creation! In Greeneville, Tennessee Doak Elementary School and the local community become two different sky art versions of a burning candle . . . one at night, lit up with real candles and one in the day dressed in various colors. The base of the candle was made with 4500 cans of food collected for the local food bank, the largest donation they ever received. . . enough to feed 100 families for a month. This two-tiered experience was set to the beautiful song, Just One Candle, by Teresa Jennings which everyone learned and sang while in the candle shape.

Raven's Message: Raven has long been associated with the sun in Native American mythology. Here, in a sky art performance by Butte College, California sustainability students, raven appears flying over Earth as the polar ice caps are melting. Raven's message is this: achieve a ceiling of 350 parts per million of carbon in the atmosphere or global climate catastrophe will ensue.

Obama Sky: An Earth Inauguration: 800 African-American students from Alex Haley and Windell Smith schools on Chicago's southside form a 1200 square foot image of President Elect Obama on the only sunny day in a week full of blizzards and extreme cold.

A Panda Sky: 700 Oak View Elementary School students and teachers in Fairfax, Virginia, celebrate the endangered panda with a very special sky art creation.

Show Me the Way: This 5 minute video depicts two performance sky art collaborations between Art For the Sky and CCCSAA Conference leadership students and with Butte College, California sustainability students honoring the most important number in the world: 350. Butte College students depict a raven flying over the Earth as the southern ice cap is melting. Once it melts, Raven has a message . . . achieve 350 parts per million carbon emissions or invite global climate catastrophe! In Native American mythology, Raven is often associated with magic. Raven is the message bearer and it's message is often related to the sun.

Into The Sky: Chico, California flies more Earth flags than any place on Earth and Art For the Sky celebrated this with a unique tribute just before Earth Day, 2009. The Chico Earth Flag Coalition hopes to spread their success to cities across the globe in an effort to better focus our attention on what should obviously be the Numero Uno shared planetary mission: address climate change now and come into right alignment with the Earth. This musical video is the story of Chico's effort, our creation together and a little history of the Earth Flag. May it inspire you and your town!

The Birdman of Cahokia: An inner-city school in St. Louis called the Shepard Academy, depicts "The Birdman" . . . the most famous artifact found at the nearby ancient city of mounds called Cahokia.

The Whooping Crane's Blessing: 1000 students and teachers from Gilchrist Elementary School in Tallahassee, Florida timed their sky art creation of a giant whooping crane with the arrival of a small flock of the birds to their new home at nearby St. Marks Wildlife Preserve. Guided by Operation Migration's ultra lights, a flock of 7 completed their journey from Wisconsin 2 days after the Art For the Sky Whooping Crane event.

Peregrine: Three shades of Florida earth and 800 students and teachers formed an endangered peregrine falcon at Canopy Oaks Elementary School, one of four projects with Tallahassee schools in the winter of 2009 honoring the state's endangered creatures.

Crocodile Sky: 1000 students and teachers from Kate Sullivan School in Tallahassee form and endangered American crocodile. This film highlights teachings about impermanence as demonstrated by a group of 6 Tibetan monks who constructed and then destroyed a beautiful sand painting in the city during the time we were creating the crocodile.

Sea-Turtle-Sky: Using Georgia red clay, Florida white sand, top soil and blue jeans for a border, 700 students and staff from De Soto Trail Elementary School in Tallahassee, Florida form a stunning version of the endangered loggerhead sea turtle. One of the advanced teachings of Art For the Sky is introduced in this video: morphogenetic fields.

Dolphin Sky: 800 students and teachers from Tampa Bay Blvd. Grade School in Florida form a dolphin soaring over the chinese character for water. This film highlights one of the advanced teachings of Art For the Sky . . . that we can beneficially influence an animal's "morphogenetic field".

A Woodpecker's Dream: A new exercise called "falling into the sky" to help awaken our sky sight is introduced here in this program which featured the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker. Northside Elementary School of the Arts in South Carolina decpicted the bird in Sky Art form with 500 students and teachers.

The Tree of Life: By saving and cashing in cereal box tops, the students of Pioneer Elementary School in Sunnyside, Washington were able to bring Art For the Sky to their school for the creation of a beautiful Tree of Life with leaves that get blown off in a "hurricane."

Once Upon A Salamander: Classes from three schools in Medford, Oregon combine to celebrate the Giant Pacific Salamander, an important species in the area watershed, culminating their year long study of the regional ecosystem.

2008

Save Our Salmon: In the spring of 2008 Cascade Middle School in Eugen, OR formed a spawing salmon to address the salmon crisis in the northwest.

Kids Light the World: The largest creation thus far . . . 2100 students and teachers from Commack Middle School on Long Island in New York form a lighthouse and beam of light. Garbage from a beach cleanup forms the top and foreground of the lighthouse.

Mission: Blue Butterfly: Presidio Middle School in San Francisco first form a chrysallis and then the endangered Mission Blue Butterfly.

Save Our Salmon: Cascade Middle School in Eugene, Oregon forms a spawning
salmon to address the salmon crisis in the northwest. See the salmon "lay eggs" to the tune of Neil Young's Long May Your Run with salmon lyrics by Daniel Dancer.

Raising the Dove: A 2 minute inspiring peace conference event depicting the creation of a dove mandala out of sheets and people to a song by Sky in the Road.

The Sky Horse: Nearly 1000 students and teachers form a running horse at the North Park Elementary School in Valencia, California.

Falling in to the Sky: Art For the Sky teams up with the Apalachicola Riverkeeper in Florida to make the largest Art For the Sky image to date . . . an Osprey with 1300, K-12 students and teachers.

The Tree of Hope: Parkdale Elementary School in Oregon at the base of Mt. Hood creates a blooming apple tree with girls in pink and boys in white as the falling blossoms.

Balandra Nuestra: This first foreign language project was set near La Paz, BCS, Mexico on a beautiful beach called Balandra which hangs in the balance between protection and development. Several hundred people, kayaks, clothes and rocks formed a hammerhead shark, endangered due to severe over-fishing.

2007

5 Lands Dreaming: NSW Australia, 2007. This 20 minute film documents a yearly event called The 5 Lands Walk which is a 10 kilometer "walkabout" along a coastal path that knits 5 communities together via art, culture and music in a celebration of nature at the height of the annual humpback whale migration northward. This completely non-commercial event seeks to honor and reconnect with the oldest culture on Earth . . . that of the Aboriginal people of Australia which dates back 50,000 years. An Art For the Sky humpback whale was created as the finale for this event and involved music, dance and movement through the image at a spectacular location.

Winter Bee: Chenowith Elementary in The Dalles, OR addresses our honeybee crisis with the creation of a giant bee made of leaves, soil and their bodies.

Butterfly Dreamz: Central Junior High in Lawrence, Kansas teames up with the Grasslands Heritage Foundation to create a gigantic endangered Regal Fritilary Butterfly with leaves, mulch and their bodies.

The Tree of Knowledge: Schwegler Elementary in Lawrence, KS celebrates it's 50th anniversary in a choreographed performance of an Osage Orange Tree with fruit and leaves falling to the ground.

The Moon Goose: Jewell Elementary School in Bend, Oregon create a Canada Goose flying across a giant moon made of shredded bark, 750 students and staff.

Mockingbird Sky: Two schools in Redding, California team up to create a
200-foot-long, singing Mockingbird as part of the nationwide BIG READ program.

Om To Gaia: A quickie film of a collaboration with the Community of Adsideo and Art For the Sky in an aerial art message invisioning peace on Earth to the song, Om to Gaia.

Manatee Eyes: 1400 students and staff at the Manatee Elementary School in Florida formed the endangered Florida manatee.

Sturgeon Sky: 800 students and staff of H.B. Lee Middle School in Portland, Oregon collaborated with Art For the Sky and Columbia River Keeper to create a 250 foot long Columbia River Sturgeon in their field. This film features the song, Tashawashunkatah which means "flow like the water" in Lakota.

Condor Eyes: 500 students and staff at Lent Elementary School in Portland become human paintdrops in a giant living painting of a California condor. The event occurred the day after a freak snowstorm in the city.

Big Foot Sky: Is Bigfoot real? In 2007 it was to Carson School in Skamania County, WA where there is a long history of sightings in the region. There is even a law here stating that it is illegla to kill a bigfoot! 300 students and staff an a truck load of wood chips brought bigfoot to life.

Amelia's Hand: Camp Create at St. Stephen's Church in Marin County, CA teamed up with Art For the Sky in a version of Amelia Earharts actual hand print which she made in ink when she was alive. 80 youth and councelors moved in and out of the hand as a moving spiral . . . a teaching about our spiral path through The Mystery. August, 2006

Cougar Sky: 600 students at Crescent Elk Middle School in Crescent City, California create a 200 ft long cougar in their field.

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