This week, CoT Project Teams will develop their Sustainable Art Projects based on a food sustainability topics discussed in Weeks 1-9. 

 

Project materials were shipped to each project team. Now, each project team will develop a sustainable art project that aligns with one or more of the food sustainability topics covered during the 10 weeks of programming (sustainability, food systems, food waste, food justice, AI in the food industry, careers in the food industry, advocacy and action, etc.).

 

Sustainable Art Project Types:

1. Magazine Collage Mural: Create a collage mural from old magazines and newspapers clippings to depict healthy & sustainable foods or another climate change topic covered. Project team members can begin collecting recycled materials.

2. Vision Board: Create a vision board to address one of the  food sustainability topics that visually represents a challenge, solution, and hope for future change or improvement through action (i.e. food insecurity, food desserts, food injustice, recycling, overflowing landfills, hunger, etc.).

3. Photography Collage: Illustrate a topic related to climate change and food from visuals seen in your neighborhood or community. Project team can take and print pictures on a poster board. Must be original pictures taken by the project team (not others or on the Internet).

4. Trash-to-Treasure Sculpture: Create a sculpture using recycled and/or discarded materials (i.e. food wrappers, plastic bottles, cardboard, scrap metal, plant seeds, and food containers, etc.) to highlight how food and food waste contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. Project team members can begin collecting recycled materials.

5. Painting: Create a collaborative painting that illustrates an aspect of the climate change & food theme (i.e. sustainable foods, plants, leaves, or flowers, food images, food desserts, recycling, waste disposal, food injustice, etc.). Consider using natural dyes from plants, fruits, and vegetables to create texture art.

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Submit the Sustainable Art Project (by the end of Week 10 but no later than April 18th).

Facilitators will ship Sustainable Art Projects to:

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Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington

Attention: Dr. Christie Murray

4103 Benning Road, NE

Washington, DC 20019

(771) 202-3832

 

(Provide tracking information to ensure package is delivered to the correct address).

 

Facilitators:

• Ensure Program Evaluations are submitted:​

• (CoT Teens) 2025 CoT Program Evaluation: https://forms.office.com/r/P1N7aBLcbg

• (CoT Facilitator) 2025 CoT Program Evaluation: https://forms.office.com/r/uWFGZ1qtMX