Adjunct Art Professor Danielle Eubank Nominated for Creative Climate Award

A University of La Verne adjunct faculty member has been nominated for an award for her environmentally-conscience art.

Danielle Eubank is one of more than 30 artists nominated for the 2018 Creative Climate Awards.

Eubank, a multimedia educator in the university’s Communications Department, travels the world to paint images of the world’s oceans. Her works are a mix of realism and the abstract.

“I have made it my life’s work to show audiences the preciousness of water,” she said. “I have dedicated the last 17 years to showing the diversity of water and encouraging audiences to really look at it.”

The New York-based Human Impacts Institute organizes the annual Creative Climate Awards, which showcase the works of artists inspired by the Earth and its climate. The awards aim to encourage critical thinking about human actions and their impacts.

The Creative Climate Awards include a series of events that feature paintings, drawings, spoken word, and performance art. The series begins with an opening event on September 17 in New York and concludes October 12, when one of the nominees receives a $2,000 grand prize.

Eubank’s oil on linen painting titled “Phoenicia Reflection III” will be on exhibit along with a series of 24 cards. The cards, about the size of a business card, have the image of one of the artist’s works on one side. The other side suggests a step people can take to make a positive impact on the environment.

Eubank began painting oceans in 2001. She has traveled over 30,000 miles on sea, painted more than 200 bodies of water, and visited 21 countries. She strives to facilitate public conversation about water issues through her work and experiences. Using mostly oil paints to document these bodies of water, she works to bring awareness to issues like climate change and water conservation.

She plans to visit Antarctica in February to paint her last ocean–the Southern Ocean.