established in 2004, Bohemia, Czech Republic
ArtMill,
center for sustainable creativity
FOUNDING DIRECTOR: BARBARA L. BENISH
Our vision is to expand the definition of art into the larger cultural context. Our center fosters creativity and its innate connection to the natural world; a place where nature and culture meet that is holistic, experiential, sustainable, and regenerative. We foster a praxis-based, educational environment that grows from grassroots organizing, philosophy and civil society, natural sciences, the arts, and alternative systems of organization. Based on our history with the monumental social and political changes in Central Europe in 1989, from whence our organization began, we are committed to the idea that culture is a fundamental enabler of regeneration, a source of meaning and energy, a wellspring of creativity and a catalyst to change.
Our Mission.
Formerly The Center for Creative Sustainability, we have renamed ArtMill to the Center for Regenerative Art, following the recent paradigm shift from sustainability to regeneration in the field of environmental justice and studies. We work on bringing the pressing environmental and social issues of our time into tangible art forms that regenerate our environment and the discourse surrounding environmental art and social practice. We practice hope-based communication and solutions-oriented art forms to inspire, ignite, and engage the public at large. We host creatives in every sense of the word to join us in the process of invigorating the artistic community around the world through instilling artists with a model for sustainable and regenerative social practice.