Conscious Evolution: The World At One
Paintings in Batik and Color Xerox

“Angela Manno's Artwork captures the spirit of the view ow the Earth from Space.”
— Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14

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Largely inspired by views of the Earth from space, Conscious Evolution: The World At One has been acknowledged by many of the lunar and shuttle astronauts as expressing the feelings, hopes and concerns they have had as a result of seeing Earth from space. 

After a highly successful,  international tour, and with the support of many wonderful sponsors including actor Tom Hanks, astronaut Edgar Mitchell (Apollo 14), AXA Space and Xerox Corporation, the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum completed collecting this visionary space-art series in December of 2000. 

CURENTLY ON EXHIBITION: Planetary Citizen and two large banners, Chain Reaction and Conscious Evolution (not pictured here) are featured in “Generous Friends: Building an Art Collection for the National  Air and Space Museum.” The Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC, Curated by Tom Crouch. The exhibition will run through 2006.

In the 1980's, "Conscious Evolution: The World At One" toured as a one woman exhibition, and with major funding from the Xerox Corporation visited ten cities in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Pieces from the exhibition have also been exhibited at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and museums in the former Soviet Union. 

In 1986, the exhibition was featured at Expo 86, in the United Nations Pavillion,  Vancouver, Canada, where it was viewed and applauded by a quarter of a million people.  At the invitation of Apollo astronaut Rusty Schweickart, the artwork was exhibited in Mexico City at the 3rd Planetary Congress of the Association of Space Explorers, where it received the endorsement of many of the astronaut/cosmonaut members of this unique and exclusive international organization. Venues in the United States included the Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, Alabama; Washington State University, Pullman, Washington; Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas; the Center for Aerospace Sciences, University of North Dakota and Daytona Beach Community College, Daytona Beach, Florida. 

In 2000, "Conscious Evolution" and "Chain Reaction," two eight-foot batik and silkscreen banners from the  series,  won the 2000 Thematic Award from Iowa State University,  in a juried exhibition, "Banners 2000" at the College of Art and Design.

During the international tour, the exhibit sponsored an adjunct educational program in which the artist delivered lectures and organized speaking panels on topics such as World Hunger, the State of the Planet, and the Role of Human Creativity in Planetary Survival. Several of the opening receptions, lectures and events were co-sponsored by local chapters of the United Nations Associations of the USA. The exhibition traveled under the auspices of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, a research and funding institute founded by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell. 

Eleven of the thirteen artworks are framed. Two are eight foot banners. The entire exhibition takes up approximately 52 linear feet of wall space.  The artwork may be available on loan with permission.