Salt Tree Charitable Trust

Salt Tree Art creates rich community spaces that unite arts and ecology in unexpected, educational, and inspiring ways.

We find inspiration in the regenerative agriculture movement, where holistic approaches to agriculture generate positive impacts to the ecosystems and communities linked to food production. We explore similar paths for creative processes to integrate with natural and social systems, revitalizing the links between them. Rather than align with the “green” movement by promoting ecofriendly habits within conventional frameworks, Salt Tree Art is working to move beyond sustainability in creative design, and to create healing within the environment and communities our projects serve.

Each year, Salt Tree Art organizes dozens of public events, exhibitions, workshops, and performances, that showcase or embody the principles of regenerative design, creating positive outcomes for the ecosystems and communities in which we work. We support artists, providing space and resources with which to explore environmental art, test new concepts, and generate communities of participation in our projects. We also support the next generation of regenerative designers and environmentally-focused creatives, providing curriculum-based STEAM education programming that introduces regenerative concepts and connects ecology and the arts.

Salt Tree Art has been privileged to advance its mission with diverse and well-established community partners, a broadly-skilled collective of advisers and participating artists, and committed leadership with a long-term vision for the organization's evolution.

At airports and waterfronts, in gardens and classrooms, on farms and in cities – through performances, exhibitions, workshops, lectures, and public events – Salt Tree Art successfully brings environmental art to new partners in diverse places each year. In 2020, Salt Tree Art delivered a full season of innovative programs despite all of the year’s challenges.

With 34 artists and creative partners, nearly 1,500 volunteer hours, and over 100 contributors and sponsors, our community of support flourished, allowing us to produce a full season of events and eco-art activations.

Salt Tree Art entered new spaces in 2020. We issued our first grants to environmental artists, we explored eco-puppetry as a new discipline for the puppetry arts, we produced our first documentary film, and we hosted an international beekeeping event online! From e-festivals, to live broadcasts, to online exhibitions, to remote learning tools, Salt Tree Art also entered the digital world in earnest in 2020 with 32 different programs throughout the year, bringing the environmental arts online.

In 2020, the audiences and creative engagement for our work broadened, with participation in our programs from artists and ecologists in Australia, Brazil, France, India, Kenya, and the UK!