MARCH 29-30, 2025 COMMUNITY MAKER WORKSHOPS - ALL WELCOME
12:00-4:00 pm each day
Come to the Commons and build your own art piece using rope, plastics, water bottles, lobster trap material and styrofoam that the Center for Coastal Studies Volunteer Beach Brigades have recovered from beaches near and far. Finished assemblage materials may be added to the exhibition in progress.
Mark Adams and other CCS staff will be on hand to encourage you.
Marine Debris and Ghost Gear are a continuing hazard to all marine life, the quality of coastal habitat and the health of us all. Whales, seals and sea turtles become entangled, plastic bags suffocate and micro plastics contaminate all forms of life. The Center for Coastal Studies Marine Debris program under staffers Laura Ludwig and Fritz McGirr as well as hundreds of volunteers. They cover beaches and islands from Boston Harbor to all of Cape Cod and southeast New England. They also work with the fishing community to develop safer methods to support sustainable fisheries.
Support their work by volunteering, reducing your use of water bottles and other disposables, and recycling.
Assemblage describes the 3-dimensional art of combining scavenged and non-art materials into sculpture. It originated in part in the movements of Dada and Surrealism in the early 20th century but has also been an American tradition of vernacular and outsider art. Many people design their own spaces using found materials, gnomes and garden art. One of our goals is to repurpose plastics and lost fishing gear in a way that draws attention to their hazards and removes them permanently from the the natural environment.