Who We Are
Artists4Action is a grassroots non-profit that wants to help solve crucial environmental problems through Collaborative Action between Artists and Activists. Based in the Northwest we work on progressive environmental issues and aim to Speak Out for the Earth on critical challenges like Endangered Species, Clean Air & Water, Global Warming & Toxic Pollution.
Cat Koehn - Executive Director
Cat Koehn is a professional Educator & Environmental Activist. She is a retired Teacher, published author and has a Master Degree in Education. Cat was also the past Director of the Non-profit, the "Northwest Cougar Action Trust"; which was successful at banning the arcane practice of allowing Trophy-hunters to use packs of radio-collared dogs to kill Cougars and Bears. It is now illegal to use hounds to pursue to harass wildlife in Oregon.
Cat has been working on wildlife and environmental issues in the NW for the past two decades, and is now focusing her own creative talents on building this new organization into a world-class Artists Collaborative that will make a difference. We decided to create a new independent organization to plug in 'the growing conservation sentiment that many national artists feel about protecting our environment.
Cat says: "We envision Artist4Action becoming a powerful force that allows creative talents of all types to join our effort and engender public support of many critical problems."
Vicki Estrada - Public Relations
A talented musician and artist herself, Vickie is doing educational outreach and Public Relations for our Projects. She has been active for many years in protecting wildlife in the Northwest, and originally hails from "Down Under". She would like to encourage artists and audiences to get involved, and contact us with your best ideas on how we can collaborate to help the earth.
THEORY OF CASE - Why our goals of Entertainment-Education & Inspiration are going to work!
There is a new phenomena sweeping Hollywood and the Entertainment Industry, it's called "ECO-entertainment". It combines both Environmental Education and Entertainment - and it is a powerful burgeoning force for good!
A prime example of this new concept would be James Cameron's Blockbuster, Avatar. It combines ecological lessons with top rate entertainment, and it is now the Number One Top Grossing Film of All Time!
Our group is perfectly situated to take advantage of the fact that many top entertainers have environmental leanings, and the public is really inspired when they see folks like Emmy Rossum and U2 advocating environmental causes!
EXTINCTION is FOREVER - so please sign up to volunteer today
Our 'Save the Salmon' campaign is just the first of what we hope will be many pro-active projects that bring on board major artists to highlight urgent environmental problems and speak out in defense of the earth! We eventually intend to invite artists of all kinds to join us in solving environmental challenges by 'being creative' and sharing their passion and talents in a collaborative effort to protect the Environment, that we all need to sustain us. Our initial campaign has two components designed to bring prompt focus to this critical subject: a Screenplay, intended to be a full-length Motion Picture, with the working title, "Sagallala Speaks"; & a commercial CD collaboration composed of songs by individual 'green' musicians and groups, that will form the Soundtrack and score for the Movie. We appreciate the energy & enthusiasm that the individual artists who have joined our new campaign. We are speaking for the earth, and these talented musicians have shown their environmental support by joining our creative effort; - we hope to make this 'A Movement'! We believe that artists can 'make a difference' by using their creative talents to make a case for "saving all the pieces". The earth will be grateful for their support, as are we.Our group is unique, in that we depend on the efforts of artists, musicians and other entertainers to bring Public Support for change and tangible solutions that are Sustainable and science-based. We network with cutting-edge musicians, artists and actors who sincerely want to 'make a difference' and help solve critical environmental problems, that have not yet be solved by conventional means. A good example of this is our efforts to protect 'Endangered Species'. We want to promote 'Sound Science' and encourage the general public to educate themselves about why it is important to save every part of our beautiful Mother Earth!
Patsy Perkins - Production Manager
Production manager, research director, rights negotiator, budget honcho. In addition to making sure everything occurs on time, Patsy handles the details of day-to-day production making sure all team members are working on proper priorities and completing assigned tasks. She arranges locations and personnel for location video and still productions
Matthew Wildman - Web Designer
Graphic and Web Designer Matthew Wildman loves helping grass roots organizations get their message onto the web. He believes that Environmental Justice and Social Justice are the keys to a better future. View his portfolio website here.
