On the morning of March 24th, Hollie Berry, local environmental artist, met with us for the second of three meetings to discuss and choose an environmental art project of our own to do. She brought many books filled with environmental art that we spent a good deal of time passing around, making sure we got to look through every one. We shared the personal art we had made with her, and discussed some of the art and artists that we had researched to build them into ideas for our own group project. We came up with lots of ideas such as:
- floating alka-seltzer (molded into fish shapes) in the river and taking a picture to make a comment on the pH levels in some of the TN river tributaries.
- creating the shape of the river with large matches stuck in the ground. One end would be lit and the result photographed. This is a commentary on recent news of burning rivers in West Virginia.
- Ask GPS students to craft a small twig fish that would be assembled together to make a twig archway or that we would float in the river and photograph
- install a bird bath on the Terrace with suspended twig fish “swimming” toward the TN River. This was to represent the fellows experience raising baby sturgeon in fall that will be released into the river this May.
- Growing, living mural painted using moss.
- Chattanooga map art (described below)
- bike trellis with native plants (see the next blog to see this group art piece along with the fellows statement.)
We decided on mounting old abandoned bikes to the wall of the GPS patio and growing vines up the bikes. We also decided that as a group we would like to do a Chattanooga map project, where we go create letters of the word Chattanooga as they would appear at their location on a map. During our next and final meeting with Hollie Berry we will be mounting the bikes on the wall of the terrace, and we are all very excited.
By Anna O. (with some additions by Mrs. Couch)
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