About Wyland
About WylandFounded in 1993 by renowned environmental artist Wyland, the Wyland Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization, has helped children and families around the nation to rediscover the importance of healthy oceans and waterways through public art programs, classroom science education, and live events. The foundation gives children the tools they need to become more creative, positive, and solution oriented. Connect your “Green” vision with Wyland — and 3 million consumers — In 2010 - 2011, Artist Wyland and the Wyland Foundation will continue one of the most unique environmental outreach programs in the United States. Partners will include the United Nations, NOAA, U.S. Forest Service, National Wildlife Federation, Robert Bateman’s Get To Know, Disneynature, the Living Green Fair, Toyota, Rotary International, the Rockefeller Family, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Smithsonian Institution, PBS Television, to name just a few. In October, for example, the Foundation will draw 350,000 visitors a day to Rockefeller Center with an 5,000 square foot interactive monumental art installation using the Rockefeller Center Ice Rink to simulate a coral reef. Start with imagination Wyland Foundation event activities and programs combine: • Art • Creativity •Science • Self-Expression • Environmental learning •A renewed sense of community
Marine life artist Wyland has done more than any other artist to raise awareness of the beauty of life on our blue planet. His Wyland Foundation is actively engaged in teaching millions of students around the country about our oceans, river, lakes, streams, and wetlands. He is an official artist for the U.S. Olympic team, hosted his own shows on Discovery Channel, PBS, and is perhaps best known for his Whaling Wall murals, a series of monumental environmentally themed artworks that are seen by more than one billion people every year. His latest project, FOCUS (Forests, Oceans, Climate - and US_ brings together the U.S. Forest Service, NOAA, the Wyland Foundation, and numerous non-profits to teach young people about our forests and ocean - and how these two irreplaceable resources hold the key to our future. In May, the United Nations will issue a series of commemorative stamps of Wyland artwork to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC).
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