The Green Artists League is involved in various green educational outreach efforts with children and adults. One of our members, Jeannie Dunnigan, has done considerable work with the Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Merrimack Valley in Massachusetts. Children make sketch books from recycled paper and utilizing cereal box sections as covers. These are often sold to raise money for the Boys & Girls Club. Jeannie also shows students a variety of other methods to make art from recycled materials.
Erin Stack, who holds a K-12 Art Education certificate, has worked with all ages on green art education and began an internship program for GAL by enlisting a BFA candidate, Andrea Panaro, from Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA, to work with GAL members on various projects. Andrea has now finished her studies at Montserrat and is a member in full standing of GAL.
Deb Cinamon Whelan works with all age groups to create “healing blankets” consisting of natural materials, such as wool, and incorporating seeds, to send to people in parts of West Virginia whose lands have been devastated by mountain-top coal removal. These blankets are both symbolic and practical, as they can help to connect children and adults from far away with those suffering the loss of their land as well as helping to reseed the after the deforestation in West Virginia.