A collaboration of artists and illustrators from Minnesota and Wisconsin creating and sharing art to educate and inspire communities to preserve, restore and reconnect natural ecosystems.

Project Art for Nature (PAN) is a self-governing collaboration of 16 - 26 artists and illustrators from Minnesota and Wisconsin. Each PAN artist chooses one or two natural areas to visit throughout the seasons of that cycle of PAN, creating artworks focused on, inspired by, or illustrating aspects of their chosen site. By returning to their sites regularly, the artists become intimate with the native plant and animal communities within their sites, and the changes that echo through their prairie, savannah, forest, wetland, or riparian habitats. PAN artists work to promote awareness, understanding and stewardship of threatened regional natural areas, through their creative processes, and through demonstrations and workshops associated with shows, as well as through exhibitions of their artworks.

PAN artists employ a diverse range of media and styles, including drawings in graphite and pen-&-ink; acrylic, oil and watercolor paintings, monotype and wood-block prints, collages in paper, textiles or found natural materials; metal and wood sculpture. Though juried on the basis of samples of past work, PAN artists are encouraged to explore new avenues of art. In small sub-groups within PAN called "pods", artists share both site discoveries and art techniques or other aspects of their unique creative processes.

View the artists and a few of their works by clicking on the artists' name.