Dubos Point Wildlife Sanctuary is an important natural area on Jamaica Bay. Its salt marshes provide habitat for local wildlife and migratory birds and help clean our waterways. Help us keep it clean!
Please enter on Bayfield Ave and Beach 65th street (see map image).
Volunteers will hand pick the objects from the waste stream that they feel have some "art potential." We’ll use these objects to create two large cyanotypes in a collaborative workshop led by Camila Morales.
Artist sTo Len — whose film Discard Records will screen at the Arverne Cinema before the cleanup at 1pm — will then use the collected objects in a future Gomitaku scroll dedicated to the Rockaways.
sTo Len’s collaborative printmaking practice engages us to investigate our impact on the environment through his own invented process that he calls, Gomitaku, or trash impression. This is an adaptation of the Japanese printmaking technique Gyotaku, which uses the inked body of an actual fish to make an impression on paper. In Len's iteration, styrofoam and other detritus pulled from coastal clean ups replaces the fish as the inked material, resulting in monoprints on long scrolls that conjure a visual language from the shapes of some of our most invisible trash.
After the cleanup and collaborative printmaking, join us for a free screening of Maintenance Artist followed by a conversation with filmmaker Toby Perl Freilich at 6pm.
