Sunday, June 8 - 10 –1pm - MoCA on the Move with MoCA Arlington at MET Park “Celebrating Spring: Family Series”, South Elm Street between South 13th and South 14th Streets, Crystal City Metro
Using the kits developed by Arlington artist Zofie King at the Arlington Art Truck and organic items found on site (think: leaves), create sun prints (aka cyanotypes) which turn organic waste into beautiful artwork, just as composting turns organic matter into beautiful soil and mulch, which in turn goes back into our community!
SEE & DO: Contemplate organic waste and how it goes back to the earth. Use the sun to create cyanotypes of organic matter while thinking about life cycles.
MEET: Arlington artist Zofie King, Virginia artist Michele Montalbano and a representative from the Solid Waste Bureau who can talk about our food scrap collection program. Zofie’s mixed media work combines cyanotypes and drawings of nature and architecture. (…and she is an avid composter.) Michele is a painter, printmaker, and uses the cyanotype process for camera-less photography.
LEARN: About the County’s food scrap collection program using on-street collection locations or your green cart. The food scraps are composted by the county and turned into soil amending compost that is shared with the community. Keep organic waste out of the trash. Vegetables, fruits, peels and rinds, meats (including bones), bread, poultry, etc. — basically anything that we eat, plus things like greasy pizza boxes, soiled napkins, natural corks and even hair and fingernail clippings are all food scraps and can go in the specialized bin. “If it grows, it goes.”
The community partner for this project is the Solid Waste Bureau, promoting food scraps collection. From curbside collections to street sweeping to E-CARE collection events, the Solid Waste Bureau keeps Arlington clean and sustainable.
You may also like the following events from Arlington Arts:
- This Friday, 6th June, 08:00 pm, The Arlington Players Present You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown in Arlington
- This Saturday, 7th June, 08:00 pm, The Arlington Players Present You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown in Arlington
- This Sunday, 8th June, 02:00 pm, The Arlington Players Present You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown in Arlington
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Arts events in Arlington,
Fine Arts events in Arlington.
