custom designed programs for schools, centers and communities
Students at the Alberta College of Art and Design work with upcycled plastic bags.
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.
Most recently our Director Lynn Neuman created the Dance and Sustainability Project with Rider University targeting plastic bags and to-go food containers, 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.
At colleges and universities, and in communities, programs can bring together the work of arts, sciences, engineering, waste management, sustainability and more.