Flower power: Green Artists League to offer workshops
April 17, 2010
Supported in part by a grant from the Newburyport Cultural Council, Green Artists League collage artist Pamela Perkins will conduct five week-day art and science workshops during April school vacation to celebrate Earth Day.
Students from the Newburyport Learning Improvement Center will work in teams to create four large Art-Pots that will later be planted and installed in a shared community garden at the Griffin Home for Aged Men. This is the beginning of GAL's Movable Feast Articulture #3. GAL defines Articulture as the co-creation of eco-friendly communities through art and horticulture, for this series of ongoing projects.
Called Flower Power, the workshops make use of drawing, painting, decoupage and collage techniques. Participants will visually investigate the world of plant guilds, permaculture and edible flowers, and when completed, each pot will represent the horticultural science of the plants growing in them how they are working together to create and sustain a healthy environment.
In collaboration with Ipswich permaculture expert, Charlotte Dion, GAL developed the design and layout of the pot gardens to keep the soil nourished, attract pollinating wildlife and repel unwanted insects. What each plant is doing will be explored and craftily represented. The colors and flavors of the various flowers will also be discussed.
Labels: Griffin Home, Ipswich, Newburyport Cultural Council
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