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.
Create a message of peace and support for the children of Ukraine. Embellish our dove/butterfly of peace with drawings, colors, words, and poems.
The Politics of Plastic is an art exhibit that examines plastic and its role in our lives and the environment. Politics of Plastic is running
July 9—October 29, 2016, Artists’ Reception July 9, 6-8 p.m.
info@scrapgallery.org • Phone: 760/861-6479
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
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.
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 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.
“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.
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 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.”
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?
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.
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.
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.
What’s floating around in the ocean isn’t just fish. Plastic is everywhere and we need to do something about it. We are hosting an exhibit called It’s In The Water and we are calling on you to help. What do you think we should do to help our oceans and how does that look? You can submit a drawing, a collage, or even a poem. You are the artist. Your artwork will be part of our Earth Day exhibit.
You can email your artwork to us at info@scrapgallery.org or mail it to us at 68743 Perez Road D-16, Cathedral City, CA 92234. We will premiere this exhibit on April 22, 2021 so the sooner we get the artwork, the better.
So dive in and start creating!
You can #BeetheChange around the world!
Pollinator populations are in decline. Pollution, the misuse of chemicals, disease, and climate change are all contributing to shrinking and shifting pollinator populations.
#BeetheChange by creating a poster that illustrates the importance of pollinators.
