Teenage Eco Warriors: 06/01/2010

Friday, June 11, 2010

Austin Responds!

Posted By: Circe!

SO recently, the Teenage Eco Warriors were invited to share their story and ask for the response of visitors on the Austin Responds wall at Austin Museum of Art. What's that, you say? Well, it's a wall at Austin Museum of Art that a group or individual selected by the museum puts prompts and questions on in any creative way they choose. Then, people who visit the museum can place their responses on a clothesline-like apparatus attached to the wall.

We chose to communicate our message with pictures, string, gems, and a few googly eyes and fake mustaches. We posed a few questions to the public, and mentioned a few light warnings about caring for our environment (If we don't take care of our oceans, the pirates will come back and attack the land people).

The wall was corresponding to the show going on at the museum dealing with themes of consumerism and how much humans consume (the title of the show is Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers).

Here are some pictures of the wall:

This was our main question

And this is someone's awesome response to that question
(Click here for the link)

The whole wall (well, most of it), Circe in her
plastic bag dress, and a responder

Our message to the children

Roz by her dinosaur, and well dressed in her bag tutu

check out our flickr album to see more photos

Coming up next: Children's workshop with plastic bag tutus!

Their Mission

Displaying their typical cheekiness, sense of fun and zeal, these high school students friends since childhood, christened themselves The Teenage Eco Warriors and committed themselves to using their superpowers for good. They also committed to coerce their friends, by any means possible, to join them.

The concerns of The Teenage Eco Warriors are concerned about humanitarian and environmental issues worldwide. Their twofold mission is to identify critical environmental and humanitarian situations and to take action with engaging, effective volunteerism. Secondly, they seek to invoke power of the internet by blogging about their Teen activism. The TEW blog is a teen-written chronicle of their ideas, actions and outcomes that will serve as an interactive template to guide and inspire other small groups of like-minded teens to take action. They believe that their combined efforts will make a difference in the world.
This blog will chronicle all TEW projects as well as the efforts of other teens that have been inspired by their example, creating a forum for the exchange and innovation of teen activism ideas. Additionally the blog contains informative how-to’s and comedic craft tutorial videos.

It is their ambition to be continually inspired by their world to make a difference, and to inspire the world through their own teen brand of humanitarian and ecological activism while encouraging others to do the same.

The Teenage Eco Warrior founders are high school students in Austin, TX at LASA, The Liberal Arts and Science Academy, an urban public magnet school that educates socially responsible leaders, problem solvers, and thinkers through a nationally recognized, rigorous, innovative, interdisciplinary curriculum.