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- Collection: Raíces Program History - Eco-Art Exhibit Series: Water Is Life (2017)
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Hand Painted Boxes
Hand painted boxes by artist Kati Pope.
Handcrafted Art on Display for the Watere Is Life Exhibit
My Mother's Children beaded moccasins by Jobena Petonoquot and Thunderbird Woman Flat Bag by Julia Marden on display for the Water Is Life exhibit series group art show opening reception.
Handmade Jacket
Handmade jacket created and worn by Isaac Murdoch during the Water is Life Exhibit Series opening reception.
Hanging Art
Veronica Winford, owner of Tiger Art Supply, and volunteer Kira Herzog hanging artwork for the Water Is Life exhibit series group art show.
Hanging Art Work
Raíces Director Francisco G. Gómez and his son, artist Gabriel Gómez, setting up the group display for the opening reception.
Interviews
Featured visiting artist Christie Belcourt interviews Nicole Wines, one of the organizers of the Water Is Life exhibit series initiative.
Introductions
Raíces Director Francisco G. Gómez introducing the program coordinator for Water Is Life, Nicole Wines, along with volunteer and student Kira Herzog, who was instrumental in helping to set up and organize the Water Is Life initiative.
Isaac Murdoch - A Storytelling
Featured guest artist Isaac Murdoch shares an Ojibwe story with attendees of the Water Is Life exhibit series opening reception.
Joyce Mo at the Water Is Life Reception
Participating group show artist Joyce Mo at the Water Is Life Exhibit Series opening reception. Joyce also volunteered at the opening reception and later became a Raíces visual arts intern in the summers of 2022 and 2023.
Julia Marden
Julia Marden is an artist who creates traditional handcrafts, like the flat bag featuring Thunderbird Woman that she crafted for this group show. Julia traveled from Vermont to be a part of the opening reception.
Kira Herzog
Raíces EcoCulture Intern Kira Herzog works on the form for a sculpture made from river litter at the Our Plastic Waters eco-art project.
Lady Liberty Litter
Statue of Liberty image printed on some of the litter collected during the Our Plastic Waters eco-art workshop and riverfront clean up.
Lisa Bagwell - "Garbage Artist"
Artist and workshop leader Lisa Bagwell, who designs sculptures out of garbage, carries bags of litter collected during the Our Plastic Waters clean up out of the wooded areas along the Raritan River.
Lisa Bagwell - Making Art From Garbage
Artist Lisa Bagwell works on a fish sculpture made out of garbage collected from the banks of the Raritan River.
Litter
Litter in Johnson Park, along the Raritan River waterfront, collected by volunteers during the Our Plastic Waters clean up and eco-art workshop.
Litter from the Raritan River
Dozens of bags of litter were collected along a quarter mile stretch of riverfront during the Our Plastic Waters river cleanup. After sorting, some of the garbage found and collected was used to create eco-art sculptures to display during the Water…
Livestreaming Water Is Life
Local resident Karlos Subverses recording interviews and reflections from some of the organizers of the Water Is Life initiative on a livestream of the opening reception event.
Living Art - Interviewing the Interviewer
Featured visiting artist Isaac Murdoch, whose doodles inspired the theme of the project, being interviewed by local resident Karlos Subverses, while in turn focusing his own camera on the interviewer and livestreaming the interview.
Local and Visiting Guests
This exhibit series brought together local community members and visiting artists from around the US and Canada. Here a local Highland Park, NJ resident who stopped into the reception when passing by sits with visiting artist, Patsea Griffin and her…
Making Art From Garbage
Our Plastic Waters eco-art program where volunteers and program participants cleaned a section of the Raritan River waterfront and then created sculptures from the litter collected during the clean up.
Mingling at the Water Is Life Reception
Attendees mingling at the 2017 Water Is Life Exhibit Series opening reception.
Model Vaka
Model sea vaka on display as part of the Water Is Life exhibit series. Okeanos Foundation for the Sea shared their model sea vaka as well as a video about Okeanos and its work on sustainable sea transportation and climaate change awareness at the…
Mother Earth Revolution
Prints on display in Chamber 43. These prints feature the artwork of Christie Belcourt and Isaac Murdoch, whose art was the inspiration for the Water Is Life exhibit series. These prints stayed on display October-November 2017.
Noah's Flood
Noah's Flood, by Joseph Ursulo, a found object sculpture on display at the reception for the Water Is Life group exhibit.
Okeanos Sea Vaka
Interns from The Okeanos Foundation constructing a sea vaka model, which was the first major piece of art to be put on display in the 431 Greenhouse Galleries during the Water Is Life exhibit series..