Don't know if it's up your alley, but here's my help-wanted post Need 3d Artists and Animators for 3d Action game, already have functioning codebase — polycount
this thread is 4 years old now - there's tons of info and decent number of environment artists. check out the polycount wiki, Eat 3D & 3D motive, to name a few resources.
I feel your pain. It's also a priority for me as well. - Get a lot better at 3D and get noticed on Polycount :) - Meet more interesting people. - Learn to draw - Get a 3DS :)
Maybe I'm late to this, but what about a "Polycount Fortress" for some form of a 3D chatroom? I know there's Minecraft, but I'm sure it would be fun to do something all our own. We could build our own little 3D community in 3D space!