Each Art For the Sky residency is documented with still and video footage, artfully arranged to music with many surprises and excitement. Click on the links below to watch these films on "Google Video." They're free .

E N J O Y !

Courting the Sky: This is the narrated, 13 minute, mini-documentary overview of Art For the Sky. We can send you a DVD of this if you wish to share it with co-workers in order to create a project at your community or school.

2008

Save Our Salmon: Cascade Middle School in Eugene, Oregon forms a spawning
salmon to address the salmon crisis in the northwest. See the salmon "lay eggs" to the tune of Neil Young's Long May Your Run with salmon lyrics by Daniel Dancer.

Raising the Dove: A 2 minute inspiring peace conference event depicting the creation of a dove mandala out of sheets and people to a song by Sky in the Road.

The Sky Horse: Nearly 1000 students and teachers form a running horse at the North Park Elementary School in Valencia, California.

Falling in to the Sky: Art For the Sky teams up with the Apalachicola Riverkeeper in Florida to make the largest Art For the Sky image to date . . . an Osprey with 1300, K-12 students and teachers.

Bigfoot Sky: Is Bigfoot real? It was to Carson School in Skamania County, Washington where there is a long history of sightings in this region. There is even law here stating that it is illegal to kill a bigfoot! 300 students and staff and a truck load of wood chips brought bigfoot to life .

The Tree of Hope: Parkdale Elementary School in Oregon at the base of Mt. Hood creates a blooming apple tree with girls in pink and boys in white as the falling blossoms.

Balandra Nuestra: This first foreign language project was set near La Paz, BCS, Mexico on a beautiful beach called Balandra which hangs in the balance between protection and development. Several hundred people, kayaks, clothes and rocks formed a hammerhead shark, endangered due to severe over-fishing.

2007

Mockingbird Sky: Two schools in Redding, California team up to create a
200-foot-long, singing Mockingbird as part of the nationwide BIG READ program.

Winter Bee: Chenowith Elementary in The Dalles, OR addresses our honeybee crisis with the creation of a giant bee made of leaves, soil and their bodies.

Butterfly Dreamz: Central Junior High in Lawrence, Kansas teames up with the Grasslands Heritage Foundation to create a gigantic endangered Regal Fritilary Butterfly with leaves, mulch and their bodies.

The Tree of Knowledge: Schwegler Elementary School in Lawrence, Kansas celebrates it's 50th anniversary in a choreographed performance of an Osage Orange Tree with fruit and leaves falling to the ground.

5 Lands Dreaming: NSW Australia, 2007. This 20 minute film documents a yearly event called The 5 Lands Walk which is a 10 kilometer "walkabout" along a coastal path that knits 5 communities together via art, culture and music in a celebration of nature at the height of the annual humpback whale migration northward. This completely non-commercial event seeks to honor and reconnect with the oldest culture on Earth . . . that of the Aboriginal people of Australia which dates back 50,000 years. An Art For the Sky humpback whale was created as the finale for this event and involved music, dance and movement through the image at a spectacular location.

Om To Gaia: A quickie film of a collaboration with the Community of Adsideo and Art For the Sky in an aerial art message invisioning peace on Earth to the song, Om to Gaia.

Manatee Eyes: 1400 students and staff at the Manatee Elementary School in Florida formed the endangered Florida manatee.

The Moon Goose: Jewell Elementary School in Bend, Oregon create a Canada Goose flying across a giant moon made of shredded bark, 750 students and staff.

Dreaming Back the Ivory Billed Woodpecker: The Community Independent School in Pittsboro, NC paid a beautiful tribute in their nearby field to the bird which hovers on the edge of science and magic flirting with extinction.

Sturgeon Sky: 800 students and staff of H.B. Lee Middle School in Portland, Oregon collaborated with Art For the Sky and Columbia River Keeper to create a 250 foot long Columbia River Sturgeon in their field. This film features the song, Tashawashunkatah which means "flow like the water" in Lakota.

Condor Eyes: 500 students and staff at Lent Elementary School in Portland become human paintdrops in a giant living painting of a California condor. The event occurred the day after a freak snowstorm in the city.

2006

Tree of Life: A ancient, twisted apple tree was formed out of fall leaves. 125 children and teachers in groups of 4 became the apples and some became the leaves. They "fell" to the "ground" and were all "blown" away by the wind. St. Mary's Academy, The Dalles, OR.

Amelia's Hand: Camp Create at St. Stephen's Church in Marin County, CA teamed up with Art For the Sky in a version of Amelia Earharts actual hand print which she made in ink when she was alive. 80 youth and councelors moved in and out of the hand as a moving spiral . . . a teaching about our spiral path through The Mystery. August, 2006

Cougar Sky: 600 students at Crescent Elk Middle School in Crescent City, California create a 200 ft long cougar in their field.

NATIVE SKY PROJECTS

Bison Dreams: A giant living painting of a White Buffalo was the result of an Art For the Sky collaboration with five Salish-Kootenai Tribal schools in Montana in the fall of 2006. This film features the song, Bison Dreams and the photographs of Edward Curtis.

The Taos Eagle: Near the oldest continually occupied dwelling on North America, the Taos Pueblo, a sky art eagle was formed by the Taos Day School. The bird was built of composted soil, sheets, cottonwood leaves and the smiling bodies of students and staff. Fall, 2007

The Apache Star: All the schools of the Jicarilla Apache Tribe collaborated with Art For the Sky in the creation of a giant version of their beaded morning star design. Approximately 700 students and staff became living "beads" and together, with 8 tipi skins, created a wonderful symbol of the power of unity . . . comm-unity. Spring, 2007

The Art of Dam Removal: An exciting depiction of an entire school becoming "a river" as they enact the removal of an antiquated dam called "Condit" on the White Salmon River. The dam is scheduled to be removed in 2008. This was a project sponsored by the Umatilla Nation and Columbia River Keeper at Sunridge Middle School in Pendleton, Oregon. This film features Neil Young's song, Long May You Run, with new words by Daniel Dancer. Winter, 2007

A-MAZ-ing: The Gila River Indian Community celebrates the recovery of their water rights after having them stolen for almost 100 years. The ancient symbol of "the man in the maze" is the centerpiece of their moving, sky art celebration of water. This film features the song, Tashawashunkatah which means "flow like the water" in Lakota. Winter, 2006