Tattfoo Tan in collaboration with Melanie Franklin Cohen, Director of the Staten Island Arts Culture Lounge, and Patricia Watts, founder of ecoartspace, are seeking a total of $8,000 to cover costs related to the artists’ multi-part exhibition installation and the creation of the S.O.S. ACTION Guide to be distributed to educators, community groups and individuals for free.

Tattfoo Tan is an ecological artist who lives on Staten Island in New York. For over a decade he has created numerous public art projects, both temporary and permanent. His works are community-based and inspire participants to consider what actions they can take in their daily lives to create positive environmental changes in the world, such as composting, recycling, and conserving energy to name a few. He has been immensely prolific and is an artist that walks the talk, a true eco-art pioneer.

S.O.S. stands for Sustainable-Organic-Stewardship and is the logo or brand that Tan wears as a merit badge on his coveralls while performing eco-actions such as developing a community seed sharing library and a mobile garden classroom working with school age children. It is his slogan and project title that represents an ongoing series of actions that will be presented in his forthcoming exhibition S.O.S. at the Staten Island Arts Culture Lounge, May 2014.

Tattfoo Tan has taken the role of artist to a new level with his invented boy scout personae. This "do-gooder" identity was incorporated into his art practice after taking certificate courses in composting, pruning, permaculture and neighborhood leadership in New York City. His eco-actions have been primarily local, however, his goal is to do good for the entire planet. And, since Tan is only one person, he will now be presenting in collaboration with ecoartspace the S.O.S. ACTION Guide, so that anyone around the world can recreate or replicate his vision for a sustainable future in their own backyard.

Tattfoo Tan will need $5,000 for his exhibition for the following: (installation diagram above)

Patricia Watts will need $3,000 to write the S.O.S. ACTION Guide during the month of April, to pay the designer to design the guide, and to make a limited edition set of printed guides for networking distribution opportunities.

The S.O.S. ACTION Guide is the second ecoartspace ACTION Guide following Eve Mosher’s HighWaterLine ACTION Guide completed in 2012. This is a 36-page how-to-guide for educators, community groups and individuals giving permission to co-opt Tan's creative strategies used to activate citizens in communities globally.

TAKE THE PLEDGE

Please join us in supporting Tattfoo Tan with this exhibition and guide to help him help us make the planet a healthier place to live. Check out our PERKS (handkerchiefs, guides, placemats, badges, and action figures), there is something for everyone....

S.O.S. Pledge
S.O.S. Pledge is a unique artwork that is based in a concept, a mission, a promise that carries its' message and virtue formless across all mediums and platforms. It had been reborn as a marble mural in a school, a plywood board in a community garden, a handkerchief for portability and even as a temporary tattoo.