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Shades Of Green: Don’t Throw It Out—Make Art!
Earth Day celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, and a city partnership is organizing an awareness campaign and art contest in city rec centers, leading up to Earth Day festivities in April.
“The Art of Recycling” is being organized by a group of participants in the 2009-2010 Leadership Chattanooga class in partnership with the City of Chattanooga Department of Education, Arts & Culture and Parks and Recreation Department. The idea is to encourage kids to participate in Earth Day activities in afterschool programs in rec centers across the city. This coincides with the Department of Arts & Culture’s recent launch of its citywide campaign for volunteers to reach out to young people during the “Most Dangerous Time of the Day—3 to 6 p.m.”
“The Art of Recycling educates kids and teens about what to recycle and how to recycle it,” says Samantha Jones, project spokesperson and owner and general manager of Mellow Mushroom and Salon Haven. “We want to get young people excited about recycling so they will make it part of their everyday lives—so to jumpstart the movement, we’re launching a city-wide ‘recycled art’ contest.”
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