This article aims to identify educative functions of contemporary art to target environmental subjects, methods and practices of territorial education. We studied two participative projects of contemporary included in an informal educational device destinated to french population living in rural environment. This study aims to prove the existence of these functions of contemporary art. This methodology includes, on one hand, the analysis of literature based on these projects and, on the other hand, an anlysis of inquiries from sample of local population. Results are two fold because, first these artistic events participate in the social link and change opinions on the local environment and the territories. Anyway, they also have a great impact on economic and touristic development.