outreach: Science Fest!

These bright young girls are enjoying Science Festival, a free community event that pairs the arts and sciences, on the lawn in front of McColl Center for Visual Art.

Artists at the McColl Center are encouraged to do outreach, in service to the community of Charlotte. For Science Festival we presented works from the Environmental Artist-in-Residency (EAIR) program. We emphasized the ecological sciences, especially: watershed conservation, water quality, wildlife habitat, healthy soils, and healthy trees.

We are standing in front of a map of the Little Sugar Creek watershed, showing the location of four E-AIR projects, with images and information about the works.