As the first study to examine eco-art learning in a sustained way across four school sites, this
inquiry has made a contribution to the emerging knowledge and growing discourse of ecoart
education, as well added new understandings to the roles of art-based learning in the
more established field of environmental education. It has demonstrated that eco-art
education can support learning in, about and through art education and environmental
education simultaneously in elementary classrooms. It has resulted in the creation of a
database of elementary eco-art lessons that exemplifies art-based, environmental learning
and supports the emerging theoretical body of knowledge about eco-art education built
over the past thirty years (McFee & Degge, 1977; Gablik, 1991; Blandy & Hoffman, 1993;
Lankford, 1997; Graham, 2007). The database also provides a ready set of models for those