http://washedashore.org/about/

About Washed Ashore

The Washed Ashore Project is a non-profit, community-based organization
with a mission of educating and creating awareness about marine debris
and plastic pollution through art. Washed Ashore is a project of The
Artula Institute for Arts & Environmental Education, whose mission is to
provide opportunities to express and teach environmental issues through
the arts.

Under the leadership of Angela Haseltine Pozzi, community members of all
ages work together to clean up our beaches and process the debris into
art supplies to construct giant sculptures of the sea life most affected
by plastic pollution. This has resulted in thousands of pounds of debris
removed from local beaches and turned into works of art. These unique
art pieces are part of a traveling exhibition that includes educational
signage and programs that encourage reducing, refusing, reusing,
repurposing and recycling.

As lead artist, Angela Haseltine Pozzi orchestrates the construction of
these towering, aesthetically striking sculptures of marine life with
the assistance of many volunteers and a dedicated staff. Angela has been
an exhibiting artist and educator for more than 30 years and now chooses
to use art as a powerful tool to encourage community and environmental
action about her true passion?cleaning up the world?s oceans.

90% of the debris we collect is petroleum-based: plastic items, nylon
ropes and net. We are able to use 98% of this trash to create
sculptures, including a walk-through replica of an ocean gyre, a
Styrofoam coral reef, Henry the fish, a plastic bottle sea jelly, an
oil-spill replica, and a musical sea star (tuned to an e-flat scale!).
An interdisciplinary environmental arts curriculum and a feature-length
documentary are in progress to accompany this work.

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