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Whole Culture: Eco-Art + Art Museums Bunny Larson-Fraley 11 December 2015        What are the dynamics between contemporary eco-art and art museums? Art museums can be ideal locations for considering our cultural mindset, which includes our relationship with the environment. Are human ideas about the earth truly integrated into our culture? Museums in all fields are adopting excellent greening procedures, but have topics of ecological sustainability and ecological diversity entered into the dialogue in the heart of art museums— in their exhibits, through eco-art? Do artists feel an affinity to these venues? Do average art museums mesh culturally with the political ideas behind environmental art? What are strategies for successfully placing eco-art in art museum settings? Imagining art museums as places for expansive human exchange, environmental topics should be included in exhibits as one of many increasingly important issues in the 21st century consciousness. If accomplishe
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