(image courtesy of Shark-Pictures.com)
Received this via the Tacoma Art Listserve. The contact information is at the bottom.
Volunteers needed to help create shark sculpture at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium as part of the EARTH DAY-Party for the Planet celebration SATURDAY APRIL 18, 2009. 10AM-4PM.
We will be creating a 12 foot+ tiger shark (life size) out of plastic grocery bags. I am making a metal frame and need volunteers to help cut plastic bags into strips and then help weave the bags onto the structure during the event.
This project is devised to help create awareness about all of the garbage ending up in our oceans as well as be a very neat sculpture that will be on display at the zoo through out the summer.
Volunteers will only need to commit to a 2 hour shift (but if you want to work more, great!) and you will get free entry into the zoo for the day's event. Lots of other groups and activities will be going on as part of the earth day celebration. Snacks also provided.
The event is 10AM-4PM.
We will need to meet at least once before the event so that everybody understands what will need to be done. We probably won't meet until the first week or so of April, but I want people to get this in their calendars now.
If you are interested in participating, start saving your plastic grocery bags and email me!
jps@jennevieve.com
Thank you!
Jennevieve Schlemmer
-Caroline N. O'Leary, Assoc. AIA
