Enviro Revolution Flags
The Environmental Revolution Flags project is an ongoing series of hand-crafted 3 x 5’ canvas flags by David Buckley Borden and collaborators. The ever-growing series recasts historic North American flags to highlight environmental issues across the United States. The intention of the work is to urge communities to take a critical stand for collective land stewardship and a shared, healthy, ecological future.
Flag designs address issues of ecological distress, extinction (local and mass), public apathy, cultural resilience, community empowerment, wetland protection, ecology-driven industry, collective action, hope for our environmental future, and more.
If interested in hosting the Environmental Revolution Flags project at your community/exhibition space, please reach out to borden@fas.harvard.edu.
Environmental Revolution Fags have been exhibited at the following:
Peavy Hall, College of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 2023
Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons University, Boston, MA, 2022
LaVerne Krause Gallery, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, 2022
Mount Pisgah Arboretum, Eugene, OR, 2021
Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, 2019
Sasaki Associates, Watertown, MA. 2019
Somerville Historic Museum, Somerville, MA, 2018
Urbano Project, Jamaica Plain, MA, 2018
Fisher Museum, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA, 2017
Aviary Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA, 2016
Daly Projects, Jackson, WY, 2015
Teton ArtLab, Jackson, WY, 2015
Innovation and Design Building, Boston, MA, 2015
Environmental Revolution Flag Collaborators:
David Buckley Borden
Michael Demaggio
Asa DeWitt
CC McGregor
Nancy Silvers
Sabine Winkler
Don’t Give Up Flag, marine-grade canvas, 3 x 5 feet, 2018. Collaborators: David Buckley Borden and Michael Demaggio.
An Appeal to All Flag, marine-grade canvas, 3 x 5 feet, 2020. Collaborators: David Buckley Borden and Michael Demaggio.
Local Extinction Flag, marine-grade canvas, 3 x 5 feet, 2019. Collaborators: David Buckley Borden and Michael Demaggio.
Royal Wetland Flag, marine-grade canvas, 3 x 5 feet, 2021. Collaborators: David Buckley Borden and Michael Demaggio.
Sixth Extinction Flag, marine-grade canvas, 3 x 5 feet, 2019. Collaborators: David Buckley Borden and Michael Demaggio.
Bunk Hill Flag, marine-grade canvas, 3 x 5 feet, 2018. Collaborators: David Buckley Borden and Michael Demaggio.
Wetland Command Flag 2.0, marine-grade canvas, 3 x 5 feet, 2020. Collaborators David Buckley Borden, Michael Demaggio, and Ian Escher Vierck