Welcome to the ARTist Response Team!
Folk Pop to Rock Your World!
Entertainment that
educates about ecology
Artists and ecological literacy.
Environmental music, ECO ROCK.
Learning Resources.
Voices of Nature Concerts, School Music Programs, Workshops.
Community Outreach Projects.
The Artist Response Team (ART, est. 1991) is a production house based in Maple Ridge, BC, specializing in music and entertainment that educates about ecology.
ART has produced a library of eco-rock Songs and CDs, supported by award-winning, music-based Educators’ Handbooks that provide cross-curricular activities linked to the song lyrics.
ART’s flagship Voices of Nature School Music Programs and Concerts put children and youth in a leadership role to inspire their families, schools and communities to take positive action for the Earth.
These programs result in tours called Up Your Watershed! and Rock The Salish Sea! to communities throughout BC and Canada.
Holly Arntzen
Kevin Wright
ART partners with Ey Stélmexw St’elt’ílém/Good Medicine Songs to produce songwriting retreats, concerts, school programs and videos that share Indigenous world view, reconciliation, and revitalization of the Halq’eméyelem language—the upriver dialect of the Stó:lō First Nations.
Holly Arntzen and Kevin Wright are the core members of the Artist Response Team (ART). These singer/songwriter/producers create songs, projects and musical events that educate about ecology.
Their band, The Wilds, can be found tromping up and down some watershed or the other, singing out for climate action, bears, wild salmon and Orcas.
"Honestly, the program is so incredible and the concert was the BEST - I think the most memorable school event I have experienced with my kids so far. I was so overcome with emotion the whole time. I had the tingles and everything. My hope would be for my youngest to get to experience it as well. I can't imagine any better use for our school funds."
Heather Kamitakahara, PAC member, Connaught Heights Elementary - New Westminster, BC - 2025
"All year I have been working very hard with my students to improve their speaking and presentation skills. Many of them were very timid when presenting, even when just presenting to small groups of other students. I don't know where and how the magic took place, but there was something about the practices and the concert that raised the proficiency in their oral language and presentation skills and bolstered their confidence."
Michelle Hornof, Grade 5 teacher, Alderwood Elementary - Bellingham, WA - 2017
"I am still hearing from parents and community members about how much they enjoyed and valued their experiences at the Rock the Salish Sea concert created and presented by you and The Wilds at Southlands.
Comments include: “Absolutely spectacular! That was the best concert, and I’m not just talking about school concerts, I’ve ever attended!” ... “My kids are still singing the songs and I can’t believe how much they learned about sustainability and the environment"... "I could not believe the confidence of my shy child as she sang her heart out, complete with actions, on stage!” Annie O'Donoghue, Principal, Southlands Elementary - Vancouver, BC - 2016