The following page is dedicated to available information found on the following artist by students of the Environmental Art class at Ball State. The information is as accurate as can be given available resources. Any additions should be sent to the address below.

Jody Pinto

Biographical:

Female
She is of Irish decent, and of Italian decent.
Resides in New York

Artistic Influences:

gardening with grandmother
watching grandfather blow glass

Devices:

has expressed interest in Ancient culture
uses metaphor to make a physical expression upon the land.

Materials:

plants
stone
metals
wood
water

EcoLOGICal bent:

Tree of Life, her most noted project, is an Art piece/Restoration project.
Fingerspan Bridge is intended to blend with the landscape; harmonizing with the seasons as the bridge itself weathers.

NOTE: the aforementioned projects both are "low impact" in that little disruption of the earth has been made to accommodate their erection, and also, they are "high impact" projects in that they both are statements, or gestures on the land-ones which people have associated with, and to which they have attached meaning.

POLITICAL/SOCIAL:

Founded Women Organized Against Rape in Philadelphia.
Grass Roots; landfills and abandoned buildings.
Project Tree of Life has become the site of a candlelight vigil in remembrance of people who have died of AIDS.
She is listed.

This information was compiled by Matt Miles (2-14-97).