After the beach clean-up this past fall, MVironment Club members were inspired to raise awareness of the need to keep our beaches clean. As a club, they decided to challenge students to use the equivalent of the trash they found at the beach to make sea-themed art as part of an “Under the Sea” Recycled Beach Trash Art Competition. The hope was that in working with the trash items, such as plastic containers, bags, straws, styrofoam, etc, students would think about the impact of having those items in our oceans. The club appreciates all of the entrants in this valuable awareness-raising exhibition. The entries were judged by Emma Green-Beach from the Great Pond Foundation and Martha’s Vineyard Shellfish Group and Liz Baldwin from BiodiversityWorks, and the winners are listed below.
The student organizers within MVironment who worked on this were Maddy Moore, Zach Bresnick, and Ellie Reagan,
The club would like to thank the art department, especially Brendan Coogan and Chris Baer, for helping us with ideas and installation. Over 90 students worked to create 43 beach-trash awareness projects.
We hope you have enjoyed the display, and the plan is that some of the pieces will be pulled to be included in a larger public display in Oak Bluffs that is being worked on by Brendan.
Thanks,
Natalie Munn and Anna Cotton, club advisors
Honorable Mention – “Sea Star”: Annie Bettencourt
Honorable Mention – “Pontoon”: Kaitlyn Marchand, Emily Turney, Eli Laikin
Honorable Mention – “Shrimp”: Julia Peters
Honorable Mention – “Portuguese Man of War”: Cheyenne Cormier
Honorable Mention – “Majestic Trash”: Justine Cassel
Honorable Mention – “Keagan the Krab”: Oliver Silberstein, Peter Engley, Austin Chandler
