custom designed programs for schools, centers and communities
Alberta College of Art and Design students work with upcycled plastic bags during a residency.
Modeled after Artichoke Dance Company’s practice of creative reuse of materials for productions modeling zero waste principles, our sustainable practices target materials for waste reduction, and collect and utilize them to create artistic objects including sets, costumes, sculptures, and installations. Concurrently waste reduction campaigns and strategies are implemented and tracked. Alternate use proposition of the materials reframes them as valuable, whereas we often consider them as useless, introducing closed loop systems thinking.
Our Director Lynn Neuman created the Dance and Sustainability Project with Rider University targeting plastic bags and to-go food containers from dining services, creating costumes and sets for a dance production in which students performed with Artichoke Dance Company. In addition, students created a video campaign to raise awareness and garner participation in reduction strategies.
Our collaboration with SurfriderNYC and 350Brooklyn through the Perils of Plastics Project upcycled plastics collected from the community and at beach clean ups into a traveling performance installation reaching over 500,000 viewers.
At colleges and universities, and in communities, programs can bring together the work of arts, sciences, engineering, waste management, sustainability and more.