Creation of Mississippi River Pearl. Read Bottom up for Chronology
Mississippi River Pearl at the Mill City Museum for Stone Arch Festival. Fun interacting with over 700 people!! June 17th and 18th!
girl on Pearl
Annie, Grace and face painting
Annie and Kelly
Kelly and painted face
People exploring Pearl
Pictures with Pearl
Making healing bracelets with Barbara
Barbara and Kelly
learning and exploring Pearl
Making art with Paul
more exploring Pearl
Annie face painting
making fun stuff with found trash objects
girls participating
bracelet cuff creationi
attending healing cuff workshop
fun stuff to do
found object creation
Kelly explaining Pearl
Earth Day at Solar Arts April 22nd
Earth Day poster
Craig Harris playing at the kickoff
Kelly giving speech
Bear, Kelly and Barbara
experiencing Pearl
Discovering
Photo op
Margo speaking
Barbara, Ellie, and Katie
Neil and Barbara moving Pearl
Philip and Barbara
Rainville in seat
Laura
3 generations
Mississippi River Pearl
Last Studio Pictures of Pearl November 2022
Barbie drawer!
Barbie drowning in toxic plastic pieces
Close up of mosaic
Light up the fossil fuels
inside peak
Inside pieak
one of the mini sculptures
drawer fronts
more drawer fronts
pull them open and find surprises!
What’s inside each drawer?
21 drawers in total
Artist-designed handles
drawers close up
All the drawers of the cabinet
wrapping it up to protect it while being tranasported
protected for moving!
All wrapped and ready to move to the gallery!
Installed and ready for viewing at Homewood Studios!
pants we found by the river we spiced up
All the drawers finished! All 21!
One side of the piece
Natalie on the throne
Neil and family
Neil
Frances
Annie
Katherine and partner
Amada and Frost
Amada
Amada
Friends
The artists!
Friends
printing demo
George showing Kelly and company how the printing press works
George’s demo of the printing press
Neil, his wife, and Amada
Gallery coordinator
Frances and friend
Kelly, Annie, and Greg
Back of the artsy coats with Barbara and Kelly
Artsy coat fashion front of coats, Barbara and Kelly
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Sneak peek inside the cabinet boxes on “Pearl,” our Mississippi River sculpture.
Inside a drawer
Outside of one of the cabinet boxes
Inside limerick and illustration of cabinet box
Another peek inside one of the cabinet boxes
Time to Stop Flushing cabinet box
Inside of cabinet box about saving paper and water
Cabinet box about fishing in the river
Inside story and art of fishing cabinet box
All the drawers of the cabinet! So many treasures inside! Come look!
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Members in the community. Margo at the Capri Theatre concert. Frances and Barbara find treasure at Woodcarver George Effran’s closing.
Margo at the Capri Theatre
Frances and the wood
The wood treasures
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Another studio day and progress on the MWMO project! We can’t wait to share the final with you next week!
Frances and Kelly hard at work
Frances and Kelly
The drawers
One side
Can you see the water bottles?
Lucy and her beautiful quilt work on the seat
Katherine
Amada
Katherine and Alexis
Amada
Signature plaques for the sculpture
3D signatures
more signatures
more signatures
lunch at Barbara’s
little sculptures with found objects
The front
George
Alexis
Alexis and Katherine
Katherine and Alexis discovering
treasure piles
river bank trash (art supplies)
Barbara, Kelly, and Frances in the studio
Alexis
Fun finds
Barbara and the big stuff
The treasures and the plan
So many creative options
Katherine sharing ideas
Frances sharing ideas
Learning the science behind the toxic trash
More science learning
Learning and research part
Katherine and Barbara
Lucy and her beautiful addition to the sculpture
Lucy and her creation for the chair
Kelly and her illustrated box
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Surprise visitor to our studio, Captain Cory! And the progress of “The Mississippi Pearl!”
Barbara and Captain Cory
Every navigator needs an ACW pin!
Even the surface of creating art upon is art
Annie and Frances
Kelly adding finishing touches
Margo’s name plaque
Barbara making things pretty
Captain Cory and Barbara
Captain Cory
Chilly outside!
Annie’s beautiful drawer
Margo’s trash treasure sculpture
Title plaque
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More photos of progress on the MWMO Project! Working hard to finish turning the trash into treasure for the viewing eyes! Debut coming November 11th to Homewood Studios in North Minneapolis!
all the butts…
a find
Margo, Katherine, and Alexis
Margo’s find growing on a rock
The gang
the trash treasures
working hard
Throne becoming gold
Close up of the chair
Barbara and Katherine
Plastic bottles becoming beautiful feathers
Getting ideas
Another angle
Alexis and Annie putting on the driftwood
Margo hard at work
Neil and Barbara armed with art supplies!
Neil and Kelly arting
One piece at a time!
Frances and Kelly
Piecing the pieces together
step by step progress
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Hard at work on the MWMO River Project! We learned all about the science behind what plastic and other toxic trash that is floating in the river and the effects going into our water systems and precious Mississippi River.
Katherine hard at work
supplies
Neil and Margo hard at work
The start of something magnificent!
Margo
The start of the layout in Dr. B’s studio
Annie and the view
The drawers so far…
Margo hard at work
The gang
Group tour
Group tour
Neil, Frances, and Katherine learning
different plastic types from the river trash
Found wheels with Katherine, Frances, and Margo
Neil and Margo
Margo
Neil
Margo
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Barbara Bridges, Kevin Reich, Amada Marquez Simula, Annie Merrell Margo Ashmore, Alexis Schramel, Katherine Boyce, Frances Bates
MWMO Water Project Day 1. Collecting trash along the banks of the Mississippi River to learn about what trash is floating in the river and to create an art project with the stuff we found.
Frances and Neil
Frances and Neil
Frances and the group with our treasures
Kelly and the group
Table of trash treasures
big cool finds
Barbara, Kelly, and Annie on the Northeast River Keepers boat
fishbones
top of a honeywell safe
Frances
fallen retaining wall
more of the table of trash treasures
Kelly and Annie
Jon and Barbara
Kelly putting in serious strength
Barbara and Kelly
The Northeast River Keepers boat rides
Frances and Neil and a wheel
Beaver on the river
Annie
man made structure
Kelly and the sculpture
collected river bank trash
Alexis and Margo cleaning trash treasures
Frances, Annie, and the group discussing project options with the chair
Frances
Katherine
Found shopping list
Neil, Margo, Frances, Barbara, Annie, and Alexis
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Herman Milligan’s exhibit op
