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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.
Spring Fest at Century Park
Celebrating Earth Day & Global Youth Service Day!
April 30th, 2022, 8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Free Family Fun Activities
Cathedral City Parks & Community Events Commission
Cathedral City Library
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Celebrating Earth Day & Global Youth Service Day
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at Century Park
Celebrating Earth Day & Global Youth Service Day
April 30th, 2022
8:30 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Free Family Fun Activities
Pop-Up Exhibits from S.C.R.A.P. Gallery, including:
She Works Hard For The Honey – So Don’t Waste It!
Dig It! The Secrets of Soil from the National Museum of Natural History
Vanishing Acts: Trees Under Threat from the Morton Arboretum
Walking For Water 6K
Where kids and adults walk 6 kilometers, carrying 6 liters of water in a backpack, literally on their backs, demonstrating the challenging reality many people in developing countries face every single day in having access to clean water for survival.
The Lorax library
Visit The Lorax library booth to sign up for a library card and decorate a Truffula Tree! Get a signup gift for first-time members, access to Earth Day-themed books, and more!
Bicycle Education Booth
Explore all the activities and enter for a chance to win a bicycle!
For more information: info@scrapgallery.org
G.L.O.B.E. - My Place in Climate Change!
G.L.O.B.E. My Place in Climate Change! calling on all students between the ages of 7-19 to create sustainable artwork with the theme of My Place in Climate Change.
GLOBE - My Place in Climate Change!
S.C.R.A.P. Gallery is hosting the GLOBE (Girls Leading One Better Environment) – Earth Day exhibition, calling on all students between the ages of 7-19 to create sustainable artwork with the theme of My Place in Climate Change. Artwork should focus on and address the student’s impact in working toward global climate justice.
Students can participate individually or in classes, clubs, or groups of any size.
Submissions may be interactive and multimedia, visual art, poetry, and spoken word.
Deadline: April 20, 2022
Email or mail this form with your artwork to: info@scrapgallery.org or
68743 Perez Road, D-16, Cathedral City, CA 92234
Open to students around the world. Artwork will be shared online and at S.C.R.A.P. Gallery Earth Day and Global Youth Service Day exhibits.
Peace For All - A message of peace and support for the children of Ukraine.
Create a message of peace and support for the children of Ukraine. Embellish our dove/butterfly of peace with drawings, colors, words, and poems.
Create a message of peace and support for the children of Ukraine.
Create a message of peace and support for the children of Ukraine. Embellish our dove/butterfly of peace with drawings, colors, words, and poems. We will share the creations on our website, social media, and community events.
Download the template, send your version to us by email: info@scrapgallery.org or post:
S.C.R.A.P. Gallery, 31855 Date Palm Drive, Ste. 3-110, Cathedral City, CA 92234.
Here Come The Bees
“She Works Hard For The Honey– So Don’t Waste It!” is our newest exhibit about the global effect of food waste and its impact on pollinator populations – bees, birds, butterflies, and bats. Created by S.C.R.A.P. Gallery, the exhibit also features “Pollination Investigation,” a poster exhibit from Smithsonian Gardens and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. The exhibit will debut at Thrillville at the Riverside County Fairgrounds, February 18-27, 2022.
“She Works Hard For The Honey” brings together educators, scientists, artists, and students to explore how pollinators nourish our planet by helping plants to reproduce and create the foods we need to survive.
Many pollinator populations are in decline. The decline is attributed to a loss in feeding and nesting habitats. Pollution, the misuse of chemicals, disease, and climate change contribute to shrinking and shifting pollinator populations.
Globally, a third of all food is wasted, never eaten. In the United States, food waste is estimated at between 30-40 percent of the food supply. According to the U.S Environmental Protection Agency, food is the single largest category of material placed in municipal landfills. It emits methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Municipal solid waste landfills are the third-largest source of human-related methane emissions in the United States. Methane has accounted for approximately 30 percent of global warming since pre-industrial times. It is increasing faster than at any other time since record-keeping began in the 1980s.
She Works Hard For The Honey
The morning buzz. “She Works Hard For The Honey– So Don’t Waste It!,” a new exhibit about the global effect of food waste and its impact on pollinator populations – bees, birds, butterflies, and bats - is coming to the Coachella Valley, February 18-27, 2022.
The Quest For Peace And Justice Continues
"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits."
Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 1964
The Quest For Peace And Justice Virtual Exhibition 2022
The Quest For Peace and Justice Virtual Exhibit seeks artwork from middle and high school students honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. All selected artworks will be featured in an online exhibition, and 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and Best of Show plaques will be awarded in both the middle and high school divisions.
“Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones.”
That's Bat-Tastic!
It’s that time of year when the pumpkins are carved, the witches are brewing, and the bats fly around at night. Actually, the bats are flying all the time around the world - helping our environment by eating up insects that attack food crops and forests, saving farmers and forest managers billions of dollars each year. But bats do more than that too. There are more than 1,400 species of bats—that’s almost 20 percent of all mammal species. About 70% of bats eat insects, and other bats eat pollen, nectar, or fruit—these bats are vital for pollinating flowers and spreading seeds that grow new plants and trees. So we are celebrating the bat and all they have to offer the planet with an art contest. The contest is open to students all over, and you could win your very own bat house. Who wouldn’t want to be neighbors with these high-flying mammals?
Lunch Time Crunch Time For The Planet
What you eat for lunch or don’t eat affects the planet.
According to the latest report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), scientists are observing changes in the Earth’s climate in every region and across the whole climate system. Many of the changes observed in the climate are unprecedented in thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years. Some of the changes already set in motion—such as continued sea level rise—are irreversible over hundreds to thousands of years.
However, solid and sustained reductions in carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and other greenhouse gases would limit climate change.
“Climate change is already affecting every region on Earth, in multiple ways. The changes we experience will increase with additional warming,” said IPCC Working Group I Co-Chair Panmao Zhai.
The report forecasts that in the coming decades, climate changes will increase in all regions. For 1.5°C of global warming, there will be increasing heat waves, longer warm seasons, and shorter cold seasons. At 2°C of global warming, heat extremes would more often reach critical tolerance thresholds for agriculture and health.
The report also shows that human actions still have the potential to determine the future course of climate. Now, what are your plans for lunch? Lunch?
In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that food reached landfills more than any other single material. When food goes to the landfill, it rots and produces methane – a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide. We could reduce roughly 6%-8% of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions if we just stopped wasting food. Take our Lunch Food Waste Audit – it’s a two-week project that asks you to track your lunch waste and change some habits. Measure as best you can and take photos. Share your findings and share what you will do differently.
See how what you have for lunch does matter.
Plastic Free July Art Kits
There’s no plastic in this art kit! Swing by S.C.R.A.P. on Monday, July 26 for a free kit filled with scraps, strips and stuff (but again, no plastic). Kits are available curbside from 8 a.m. to noon.
¿Cuál es tu causa? What's your cause?
Make an impact. What do you care about? Air pollution, climate change, ocean plastics, saving the bees and/or all of the above and more? We invite you to share your artistic abilities and your cause.
Create an illustration, photo, drawing, painting, collage or graphic that shows how you will help and lead us to a better environment.
ENTERING IS EASY
Email a photo of your artwork and entry form/permission slip or mail your submission to S.C.R.A.P. Gallery, 31855 Date Palm Drive Ste. 3-110, Cathedral City, CA 92234.
Seed The Bees - Pollinator Week 2021
Practicing The Four R’s - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Responsibility, lessens the need to extract more resources from our planet. When we do that, we decrease our impact on the natural world – the world we all live in. We all need a clean and healthy environment to thrive – you, me, and the bees!
We are kicking off our Seed The Bees program and mobile seed library just in time to celebrate Pollinator Week, June 21-27, 2021. Drop by the S.C.R.A.P. Gallery on Monday, June 21 and pick up a Bee Happy Bag! Inside each bag is a pollinator wildflower seed packet and a DIY bee hotel project using upcycled materials.
