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Puget Sound Multi-Porpoise Project
Participatory Art, Sculpture Carrie Ziegler Participatory Art, Sculpture Carrie Ziegler

Puget Sound Multi-Porpoise Project

As part of my Artist Residency at Sherman Elementary School, in Tacoma, we created this Student Collaborative Art Project. During the project, students created hundreds of shimmering Pacific herring from up-cycled Capri-sun pouches. The school of herring is suspended in the shape of two harbor porpoises. Stabilized by student created clay shells that are native to the region, this artwork looks closely at the relationship of plastics and how we impact the earth.

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