SERIA
Social Ecology andRespect in Interaction and Art (SERIA) is an incorporated (non-profit status is pending) educational and research organization co-founded in 1994 by Kristin Congdon, David Congdon, and Doug Blandy. SERIA's purpose is to promote environmentally sustainable social change, respectful social interaction, peaceful co-existence, social justice, and equity. SERIA recognizes that social problems social problems are interrelated and are often an outgrowth of human domination over one another, other species, and the physical environment. Art and education are viewed as vehicles for collective social action.
SERIA's current projects are directed to community arts, arts management, and arts education. SERIA is contributing to research and development associated with a community based environmentally restorative project in Dublin, Ohio; is co-sponsoring an August, 1995 conference in Maine entitled Conversations on Culture, Community, and Conflict; and facilitating research on the relationship between social ecology and art.
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