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This lesson is designed to inform students about the scarcity of water in the world and to encourage them to think about ways that they can conserve water in their own homes. Students will: Discuss the distribution of water on earth and how much water is available to sustain life.
Jun 26, 2018 · Cathie Pearson, this week’s Educator of the Week, designed a project called H2O Heroes, in which her students made art out of recycled plastic products to raise awareness about ocean pollution.
- “Vida Toxica” by Alvaro Soler Arpa. “Vida Tóxica” (Toxic Life) is fourteen sculptures created by Catalan artist Alvaro Soler Arpa with animal bones and plastic waste.
- “Plastic Planet” by Calder Kamin. Calder Kamin, a visual artist from Austin, Texas, creates intricate animal sculptures from plastic bags that are stripped and twisted by hand.
- “Washed Ashore” by various artists. The Washed Ashore project collected trash that has been removed from beaches through volunteer community cleanups.
- “Bounty, Pilfered” by Pam Longobardi. Pam Longobardi is an artist, activist, and Distinguished University Professor at Georgia State University as well as Oceanic Society’s Artist-In-Nature.
• Activate thinking around two water-related artefacts from the Aga Khan Museum (AKM) • Identify connections between the artefacts and water and sanitation • Activate thinking around Canada’s commitment, contributions, and work towards clean water and sanitation for all
- Alejandro Durán: Washed Up
- Mandy Barker: Hong Kong Soup 1826
- Max Liboion: Sea Globes
- Judith and Richard Lang: Cavallo Point
- John Dahlsen: Environmental Wallworks
- Tuula Närhinen: Baltic Sea Plastique
- Steve McPherson: Marine Plastic
- Angela Haseltine Pozzi—Washed Ashore
- Gilles Cenazandotti: Plastic Beach
- Evelyn Rydz: Floating Artifacts
Alejandro Durán is a multimedia artist from Mexico City, now based in Brooklyn. The meticulously arranged photographs in his Washed Up series aim to “reveal the pervasive impact of consumer culture on the natural world” and “the fraught intersections of man and nature.” On his website, he encourages fans of his work to keep informed on the issue of...
Mandy Barker is a photographer who creates visually stunning works on the impact of oceanic waste. Hong Kong Soup:1826 depicts plastics gathered from over 30 different beaches in Hong Kong, where over 1,826 tons of plastic waste are added to landfills every day. The panda on the lighter in the foreground of this image, she writes, “represents endan...
Max Liboion is a scholar, activist, and artist based in Newfoundland. In this work, created for an exhibition at the Anchorage Museum entitled Gyre: The Plastic Ocean, she connects kitsch with a harsh reality. The “souvenir” globes are filled with plastics collected from the Hudson River and the rocks are made of bituminous coal from a closed landf...
Judith Selby Lang and Richard Langcollected all the plastic they use for their assemblages from 1000 yards of Kehoe Beach in California. Their goal with their artwork is to use beauty as a call to action. They write, “Each little piece of trash has a story to tell in its connection to human life. One can tell the story of a culture obsessed by conv...
John Dahlsenis a prolific Australian artist who treats the beach litter he collects as a painters palette. He writes, “it literally amazes me to think how many times I have bent over to pick up the many thousands of pieces of plastic debris that made up that aspect of my art, each piece jostled around for who knows how long by sand, sun and ocean, ...
Tuula Närhinen is a visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. For Baltic Sea Plastique she created nine sculptures made of materials washed up by the sea on Harakka Island. She then filmed the “creatures” she created in the water surrounding the island and built an exhibition presenting these creatures as if they were scientific specimens. The proj...
Steve McPherson has been collecting plastic debris from the North Kent Coast of the UK for 15 years. In Correlation, he uses the journey of Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days as the framework to arrange the piece. The colors, here, correspond to the mean average yearly low and high temperatures of each city he visits on h...
Angela Haseltine Pozziis the artistic and executive director behind Washed Ashore, “a non-profit, community-based organization with a mission of educating and creating awareness about marine debris and plastic pollution through art.” Angela was inspired by the marine debris she saw accumulating on the beaches of her native Oregon. Through Washed As...
Gilles Cenazandottiis a French sculptor who uses marine plastic to create life size animals sculptures, including crocodiles, polar bears, wolves, and other endangered animals. His work imagines a dystopian future where animals have evolved and mutated to become one with their trash-strewn environment.
Evelyn Rydzis a Boston-based artist who takes photographs and creates illustrations of man-made objects that have washed ashore, presenting these artifacts like an archeologist of contemporary history. Through her photos, we can see how the journey through the ocean has changed these objects.
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Jul 31, 2018 · The lines of inquiry were designed to foster a transdisciplinary approach: how recycled materials make art (function); ocean pollution (causation); choices artists make to encourage responsible consumption, and how to preserve life on land and below water (responsibility).
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May 30, 2018 · From tons of plastic pollution, monumental sculptures have arisen to awaken the hearts and minds of viewers to the marine debris crisis. Plastic art is making a difference 90% of marine debris...
