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Folly Tree Arboretum
The Folly Tree Arboretum is asking artists to submit completed projects that use an unexpected method to communicate environmental awareness for The Dancing Tree Award.
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Get matched →The Folly Tree Arboretum is accepting open call submissions for the Dancing Tree Award for Unorthodox Environmental Projects. This annual award offers $3000 to a completed project that uses an unexpected method to communicate environmental awareness.
At Folly Tree, compelling storytelling is vital for lasting environmental change. The Dancing Tree Award aims to support new voices and unconventional approaches—projects that lean toward optimism and challenge the prevailing currents of nihilism and stagnation. We seek work that explores the complexity of our connection with the natural world in ways that are hopeful, inspiring, humorous, daring, exciting, quirky, provocative, weird, experimental, playful, irreverent, or surprisingly effective. We celebrate projects that embody a lively, optimistic path forward, even in the face of seemingly impossible environmental challenges. The Dancing Tree Award honors work that rejects despair, embraces imagination, and paves new ways forward amid seemingly insurmountable ecological challenges.
East Hampton, NY
January 8, 2027
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