At this year’s annual Everglades Conference, Senator Bob Graham recognized artist Deborah Mitchell and the impact of using art to elevate the fight to save the Everglades with poetic admiration: “The salvation of the American Everglades is dependent on the awareness of Americans and citizens of the world to the global importance of the Glades and their willingness to support its restoration. Exposure through art has been and continues to be an important means of providing this awareness.”

Art has become an indispensable method for increasing knowledge, raising appreciation, and inspiring action within the environmental movement. This conversation will explore the power of art to build and establish an environmentally sensitive populace and the applications of that collective consciousness to elections that impact the future of Florida’s water.

This conversation will be streamed live to our Bullsugar.org Facebook page. We hope you'll join us in welcoming our featured speakers at 1pm on October 21: