Earth Day Activities

The City of Lawrence celebrated Earth Day on April 16th with a parade down Massachusetts Street and lots of information and activity booths in South Park.  Across the street at the 1109 Gallery (The Lawrence Art Guild) I set up tables and brought tons of supplies and glue guns for people to make art from recycled bits and pieces.  I had boxes of electronics, broken jewelry, puzzle pieces, pogs (some sort of trading image circles...) ribbon, beads (thanks to a great donation by Anchalee of Newelry Jewelry), super glue, mixed decorative and ephemera papers, and miscellaneous textured plastic packaging.

People of all ages made AMAZING Creations!  I provided brooch backs and barrette hardware too, so lots of people left with one-of-a-kind accessories.  Sculptures, bugs, animals, and even a few robots were constructed as well.


Thanks to Tami, Karen, Susan, Frank, Linda, Bob, and Larissa for assistance with this public event!


Here are some pictures of the Earth Day Recycled Art project...

Yes, I wore my fantastic crown I picked up from Biz Baz last year !

This was the final event for the Lawrence Art Guild's Globally Green show which ends today... Picture from the April 2nd Opening Reception below...

From the left: Karen Roberts, Jill Tichenor, Malissa Martin-Wilke, and Liza MacKinnon in front of our collaborative piece.

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Here's a sneak peek at my work space and of one of my life sized mannequin pieces IN PROGRESS....

So, this is what you end up with if you're so excited about getting to the sweet part of the art project that you forget to research adhesives... this batting material and fabric is held to the peg board material with Goop glue, white duct tape, straight pins, 3M 77 spray glue, and elmers.... if only i had gone to "this to that" first!!

This piece - (the white or wedding piece) is finished! and it looks pretty snazzy - I used garage sale batting, vintage white tablecloth (Thanks Aunt Mary), donated beaded decorative patch thingies (Thanks Nan!), and some super stiff tutu netting left over from being a stitcher for the Pacific Northwest Ballet in another lifetime....  These pieces will be shown at the First Friday in June event at Krzyz Studio in Kansas City.