Earth Week 2009

Collaboration with Willowbrook Shopping Centre

To celebrate Earth Day 2009, and to help raise awareness about a variety of environmental issues the grade 10,11 and 12 visual art students of the Langley Fine Arts School working with their teachers Nancy Crawford and Peter Sarganis created a week long event in collaboration with the Willowbrook Shopping Centre in Langley, British Columbia. Some of the projects that the students created included:

• An evening “Trashion Show” featuring over 30 outfits, where the students modelled clothes they had created from garbage.
• A Silent Auction of paintings created by the grade 12 art majors. Each painting contained the image of a small garbage can painted in the style of a major 20th Century artist, and contained the phrase “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: It’s a Hierarchy”. All the proceeds from the auction were donated to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
• Interactive displays that reviewed the problems and solutions of some of most problematic materials that we try to dispose of, including plastic bags and bottles, metal, glass, drinking boxes, etc.
• Assorted projects including 2D and 3D sculptures made out of garbage materials.
• All of the students were also in the shopping centre to talk with the public about their works for 2 - 4 hour shifts throughout the week long event.

2D and 3D Displays

Trashion on Location

Trash Fashion 2009