What's Happening!!!
Do you love the environment and have a splash of creativity?
If so, Artist Boat is now hiring to fill 4 Eco-Art Educator/Interpreter positions to interpret habitats, ecosystems, science, and the environment through both science and art for people of all ages!
We also have 2 Eco-Art Arts Residency positions to fill in which motivated and creative arts educators can deliver an Eco-Art Residency to an elementary school in Galveston and Houston.
Artist Boat has received funding to provide a FREE 40-hour professional development for 7th and 8th grade teachers in all content areas within Galveston, Brazoria, Chambers, Houston, and Liberty County!!!!!!
Artist Boat operations were brought to a standstill for 6 months due to the devastating effects of Hurricane Ike. Please help our organization recover from the quarter of a million recovery cost we are now facing.
We have recently received the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department COOP Grant as well as an extension with the Texas Education Agency Science and Math Outreach Grant!
Artist Boat provides guided interpretive tours to places of natural significance in Galveston Bay via kayak!
Discover the estuary guided by biologists and artists, explore the wonders of Galveston Island and Bay in human powered vessels, discover the art of paddling, and express your creative side!
Houston, TX - Students at Browning Elementary began communicating bilingual ocean literacy messages to the local community via low-power AM radio broadcasts!
Contact us today to buy raffle tickets to win your very own hand-built kayak. See it on display at Mod Coffee Shop in Galveston throughout the month of February.
Artist Boat
Artist Boat is dedicated to promoting awareness and preservation of coastal margins and the marine environment through the disciplines of the sciences and the arts. To fulfill this mission, Artist Boat promotes collaborations between marine scientists and artists in order to develop the environmental literacy needed for individuals to act as vessels of knowledge, carrying within themselves the talents to:
1) Promote the preservation of fragile ecosystems through environmental education and the arts
2) Utilize the traditional tools of the sciences and the arts in coastal margins and the marine environment to bring people to places of awareness and reflection while visiting these habitats
3) Reflect the immense beauty, wonder and diversity of life contained in coastal margins and the marine environment back to their communities.
This mission is manifested through art and science residencies in communities, the use of vessels and interactions with coastal peoples, hands-on experiences for participants, public art collaborations, symposia and workshops and partnerships designed to promote creative projects.