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Dressing a Salad
Chef Enrique Pérez dressing a salad during a cooking demonstration at the first Common Ground collaborative EcoCulture workshop, held at the George Street Co-op in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Dressing a Salad
Chef Enrique Pérez drizzles honey onto a fresh salad during his Common Ground workshop cooking demonstration.
Drumming
Raíces EcoCulture program participant Matt Schrager and intern Eli Goldstein drumming on the communal drum in the 2017 People's Climate March.
Drumming Class Flyer
Raíces Cultural Center flyer for Afro-Caribbean hand percussion classes offered at the Hub City Teen Center from the Fall of 2009 through the Spring of 2010.
Dual Pipes
Pepe Santana demonstrates a style of music where a single musician plays two different flutes at the same time, through the two sides of their mouth.
Duck
Duck made from plastic spoons, bottle caps and pieces of old toys created by artist Lisa Bagwell.
Ducks
Local resident Paul Sauers enjoying the opening reception at the Our Plastic Waters exhibit during the Water Is Life exhibit series artist reception. Sculptures pictured are ducks made out of wire and single use plastic utensils by artist Lisa…
Earth Day Weekend 2011 Program Flyer
Flyer for the April 2011 Arts and Family Day Program: Earth Day Celebration.
EVENT DESCRIPTION
All are invited to celebrate and honor the earth and nature with Raíces Cultural Center in a hands-on afternoon of art, crafts, music, song, dance and…
EVENT DESCRIPTION
All are invited to celebrate and honor the earth and nature with Raíces Cultural Center in a hands-on afternoon of art, crafts, music, song, dance and…
Echinacea
Echinacea flower in the Raíces EcoCulture herbal healing gardens in August 2017. Echinacea is a perrenial plant that also helps feed a variety of pollinators.
Echinacea Flowers
Echinacea flower in bloom.
Echinacea Patch
Ecinacea patch in the Raíces EcoCulture herbal garden. This flower provides food for pollinators and can be used as a healing herb.
Eco-Art - Bottles and Cans
From trash to art, this River Fish sculpture is stuffed with littered bottles and cans collected from the banks of the Raritan River.
Eco-Art - Building a Fish Sculpture
Artist Lisa Bagwell working with a Rutgers student and program participant to create a fish sculpture from garbage collected during the river clean up portion of the program.
Eco-Art - Building Forms
Artist Lisa Bagwell building a form for a River Fish sculpture as volunteer and program participant Christina Proxenos surveys the trash collected during the river clean up portion of the program.
Eco-Art - Making a "River Fish"
Our Plastic Waters program participants making a fish sculpture out of garbage collected at a pre-workshop river clean up.
Eco-Art - River Fish
Volunteer with his River Fish sculpture built from garbage he collected during the Raritan River cleanup held earlier in the day.
Eco-Art - River Fish
River Fish made from chicken wire and garbage on display in Blank Space Highland Park during the reception of the Our Plastic Waters exhibit and Water Is Life arts project held in the fall of 2017.
Eco-Art - River Fish
River Fish made from chicken wire and garbage on display in Blank Space Highland Park during the reception of the Our Plastic Waters exhibit and Water Is Life arts project held in the fall of 2017.
Eco-Art Creation
Volunteers creating eco-art sculptures at the Water Is Life "Our Plastic Waters" program.
Eco-Art Exhibit Flyer
Flyer for the Eco-Art Exhibit featuring assemblage artist Lisa Bagwell. All sculptures featured in this exhibit are made from 100% post-consumer recycled materials.
Eco-Art Workshop - Sorting Garbage
Volunteers and program participants sort through garbage collected during the Our Plastic Waters eco-art workshop to separate the materials that would be used as art supplies in the eco-art workshop from those which would be hauled away for the…
Eco-Culture Garden: The First Raíces Beans
The first Raíces beans poking up out of the ground. In the following year we would plant two kinds of red kidney beans, green beans, black beans and white beans.
Eco-Culture Garden: Tomato Harvest
End of summer tomato harvest ripening on the windowsill.
Tomatoes originated in the Andes, where they grew wild with very small fruits, most likely yellow in color. There are species of tomatoes that still grow wild there today. Tomatoes were…
Tomatoes originated in the Andes, where they grew wild with very small fruits, most likely yellow in color. There are species of tomatoes that still grow wild there today. Tomatoes were…
Eco-Warriors
On the day of the opening reception for the Water Is Life exhibit series, some of the visiting and local artists, co-sponsors, organizers and volunteers gathered at the Water Is Life electronic sign, to stand together for the earth. It kicked off the…
EcoArt Exhibit
Lisa Bagwell's EcoArt Exhibit was well attended by people from towns throughout Middlesex and Somerset counties. It remained on display in Ruthie’s Bagel Dish for over two months, giving hundreds of people the opportunity to view and be impacted by…