Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

A Bugs Hotel for the community children to create. This project will go on living at one of the school grounds to offer shelter to insects in need of a nest and home. For this project we used gleaned plastic materials that we incorporated in each hotel room with found organic material.  The Mount Rainier children had a ball and so did I as they showed an extreme amount of thoughtfulness in their constructions. to view more follow artsmart_eco_workshops on instagram

INSECT HABITATS  WORKSHOP The first creative collaboration is making Insect Habitat table decorations as part of the National Sustainable Living Festival 2017. The Great Local Lunch is a community collaboration held on Sunday 12th February 2017 at 12.30pm. Carolyn and Deb will conduct a free workshop on February 6th to engage the public in creating functional and interesting table decorations for The Great Local Lunch guests. Come meet like-minded people and create Insect Habitats to be used as table decorations for The Great Local Lunch on Feb 12. http://www.slf.org.au/event/great-local-lunch/ Suitability: Max 30 people. 16 y/o – Adults (minimum supervision) Register: Facebook invite  https://www.facebook.com/events/346612949065222/?ti=icl or email Carolyn: carolyncardinet@gmail.com Deb: dpgreensong@gmail.com WHY WE CHOSE TO CREATE INSECT HABITATS We are inspired to create habitats and increase public knowledge due to the worldwide news that bee...