Join us on Saturday, April 20, as we participate and create activities that help our environment.
Step Up To The Plate
Art 22 Project
Art 22 is a collaborative endeavor featuring 22 artists from around the country.
Why 22? Suicide is a significant problem affecting military service members and veterans. Although it may vary per year, Department of Veterans Affairs estimates suggest that 22 veterans may die by suicide each day.
Coordinated by S.C.R.A.P. Gallery, each artist will start their artwork with one repurposed cardboard square. All 22 final contributions will create one cohesive work. Artists will incorporate the themes of healing, hope, and resiliency.
The finished Art 22 will be unveiled at the Invisible Wounds 22K on April 13, 2024, at Dennis Keat Soccer Park in Cathedral City.
The Return Of The Butterflies In Cathedral City
It's time for our annual celebration of all things butterflies and pollinators. The Butterfly Festival will be held on Saturday, March 16, at Panorama Park in Cathedral City from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. We have lots of activities planned for kids and families, including wildflower planting, mini-pot decorating, recycled crafts, and much more. Every child receives a copy of the fun and fact-filled book, "The Truth About Butterflies" by Maxwell Eaton III, courtesy of Cathedral City Evening Rotary & Mayor Mark Carnevale.
In anticipation of the festival, kids of all ages can participate in our Butterfly Art Contest. All the details are below and if you need materials, kits are available at S.C.R.A.P. Gallery and the Cathedral City Library.
Eye See Peace
Each year the International Day of Peace (IDP) is observed worldwide on September 21. The United Nations General Assembly has declared this a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace.
According to the UN, this year’s theme is Actions for Peace: Our Ambition for the #GlobalGoals. It is a call to action recognizing our individual and collective responsibility to foster peace. Fostering peace contributes to realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals will create a culture of peace for all.
S.C.R.A.P. Gallery is partnering with the Cathedral City Peace Initiative to host Pieces For Peace, observing the day on September 21, 2023. There will be a special exhibit at the Cathedral City Senior Center. Create your own Eye See Peace with our template using scraps, strips, and stuff. Need materials? We have free kits too! Due date for eye art is September 15, 2023. Please fill free to drop it off at the Gallery, 68743 Perez Rd. D-16, Cathedral City, CA 92234.
Actions For Peace Through Creativity
Each year the International Day of Peace is observed worldwide on September 21. The UN General Assembly has declared this a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace.
This year’s theme is Actions for Peace: Our Ambition for the #GlobalGoals. It is a call to action recognizing our individual and collective responsibility to foster peace. We invite you to act with us through creativity and Pinwheels For Peace.
With all the collected pinwheels, we will create an installation in the City of Cathedral City.
Beat Plastic Pollution And Give Us Your Best Fish!
According to the United Nations Environmental Programme, we have become addicted to single-use plastic products. We are soaking in it and choking on it. All this plastic directly affects how we live - environmental, social, economic, and health consequences.
Globally, one million plastic bottles are purchased every minute. Half of all plastic produced is designed for single-use purposes – used once and then thrown away. What can you do to #BeatPlasticPollution? Start by reusing and repurposing the plastic that you have, and might we suggest that you enter our Plastic Fish Zero Waste Art Contest?
Summer Shines Brightly For Sustainability
We are excited to share our summer plans which include a lot of creative reuse, repurposing, and lots of fun! Join us throughout June, July, and August for cool projects while you beat the heat.
Celebrate Earth Day & Global Youth Service Day With Us!
Plant Trees And Save Bees
S.C.R.A.P. Gallery is honored to be a California Arbor Week Grantee from California ReLeaf. With Arbor Week Grant funding, SCRAP Gallery and their community partners are working to plant trees in Cathedral City Parks and provide educational programs for schools in the Coachella Valley - educating the next generation about the importance of our urban forests! Thank you to Edison International and the ongoing support of Cal Fire and USDA Forest Service in supporting this program. We are kicking off our program with our Earth Day #BeetheChange Student Poster Program. The theme is Save The Bees, Plant More Trees.
You ART What You Don't Eat!
We would like another helping of art from you, please. In our Step Up To The Plate project, we would like to see what’s on your plate!
Calling All Zero Waste Heroes
Let's All Join Hands
We are working with the Global Art Project, whose mission is to create a culture of peace through art. Let's All Join Hands project asks that you trace your hand or use the template below and draw, collage, or paint words and images that build friendship, hope, peace, and understanding. At S.C.R.A.P. we encourage you to add the environmental component by creating your hand with recycled or reused paper.
Your artwork, joined with thousands of others, will be a tangible representation of the people worldwide who join their energy together to create a peaceful future. We will first feature the artwork in our M.L.K. Day Peace & Art Walk in Cathedral City, California, on January 14, 2023. Following that, the work will be shared with the Global Art Project Bank for exhibitions, books, slide presentations, and social media.
Send your completed work to S.C.R.A.P. Gallery, 68743 Perez Rd. D-16, Cathedral City, CA 92234.
Bite Back Against Food Waste - Enter Our Doggie Bag Design Contest
How Do You Feel About Leftovers?
LEFTOVERS is open to artists who create sustainably-driven art from repurposed, recycled, and found objects and materials. Artists are encouraged to submit works that cleverly reuse, repurpose, or upcycled materials considered leftovers, creating thought-provoking work. Artwork should focus on one (or more) of five exploratory themes: food waste, climate change, recycling, plastic pollution, and pollinator protection.
All mediums welcome: photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, mixed media, etc.
GUIDELINES:
· Artwork must be original.
· There is NO Submission Fee.
· Work must be ready to hang.
· Size restrictions – not larger than 60” x 60”.
· Artists are responsible for the drop-off and pick-up of their artwork (in person or by mail.)
The deadline for entry is January 15, 2023. Submissions may be sent to 68743 Perez Rd. D-16, Cathedral City, CA 92234. If you have questions or want to discuss your ideas, feel free to contact us at info@scrapgallery.org.
Pieces For Peace
S.C.R.A.P. Gallery is partnering with the Cathedral City Peace Initiative to host Pieces For Peace, observing the United Nations International Day of Peace on September 21, 2022. There will be a special exhibit at the Cathedral City Senior Center.
Create your own peace dove with our template using scraps, strips, and stuff. Need materials? No problem, we have free kits too! Due date for doves is September 11.
S.C.R.A.P. Gallery, 68743 Perez Rd. D-16, Cathedral City, CA 92234
You Say You Want A Revolution - Plastic Free
Plastic Free July is a month of global action that anyone can participate in by just starting to think about and do more things to lessen their dependence on plastic and stop single-use plastic use. More than a million people are switching to durable, reusable items, avoiding packaging, and reducing waste in their own lives. This community action sends a clear message to businesses and governments that it is time to end plastic pollution. Want to join the plastic-free revolution? We have some ideas.
Bee The Change Art Challenge For Plastic Free July
We are kicking off our 2022 Bee The Change Art Challenge sponsored by S.C.R.A.P. Gallery and the Cathedral City Environmental Conservation Division in honor of World Bee Day and Plastic Free July. Work will become part of the Bee The Change environmental art traveling exhibit for the new year. How will you be the change? What will you do to remove plastic from your daily life? Show us!
If The Shoe Fits
If the shoe no longer fits, don’t throw it in the landfill.
With all the things, stuff, and material we are throwing into the trash, there is one thing we haven’t done - the appropriate sole searching. Yes, we said sole searching. According to the U.S. Department of the Interior, Americans throw away at least 300 million pairs of shoes each year. These shoes end up in landfills, where they can take 30 to 40 years to decompose. As part of their S.C.R.A.P. Gallery recycling education program at Nellie N. Coffman Middle School, sixth-grade students have created a shoe art recycling project to bring awareness about the number of shoes in landfills. Using old sneakers, students recreated the footwear into dimensional art. The exhibit also provides alternative solutions to reduce the number of shoes entering the waste stream. The number one solution for old sneakers and athletic shoes is to donate them to thrift shops and nonprofit organizations. If your shoes are past the point of reuse, some recycling programs will take them, including Nike stores around the United States as part of the Nike Grind program. Nike Grind materials are a mixture of post-industrial manufacturing scrap and used and defective shoes. Those materials are reprocessed into new Nike Grind footwear and apparel.
“My shoe is to encourage people to be more aware of others and the planet. My shoe has plants, grass, and the earth. It says, “There is no planet B” to tell my audience about my shoe.” - Camila R., Sixth Grade.
