"David Jakupca and his International Center for Environmental Arts (ICEA) is a team of art experts who have successfully fused not-for-profit idealism with for-profit pragmatism. The result is the country's only comprehensive professional artist run cultural program exclusively devoted to environmental and humanitarian concerns facing mankind in the 21st century. Spending his time devising strategies that have allowed art and culture to influence people worldwide in promoting the iceality of a better way of living, the ‘better way’ is by successfully demonstrating that a socially aware artists with a vision can make a real difference at the global level. Ed Burns, President Cleveland Jaycees