EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — La Nube STEAM Discovery Center is inviting the community to its unveiling ceremony of a new recycled art installation.
“Ram-arkable Resilience: Art Meets Conservation” is a new collaborative art installation that will be unveiled to the public at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 28 and will be on display until Nov. 2.
Ram-arkable Resilience “depicts El Paso’s iconic mountain range and imagines what it may be like to spot a desert bighorn sheep roaming the slopes,” according to La Nube.
The art installation is “entirely out of recycled trash” as the materials include cardboard boxes, water bottles, newspaper, plastic forks and some damaged fabric from one of La Nube’s exhibits.
“We are excited to partner with the Green Hope Project. This initiative aligns with La Nube’s mission to ignite imagination and inspire guests to discover, create, and innovate by engaging the community in creative environmental stewardship through art and education,” said Norma Escandon, early childhood coordinator for La Nube. “By highlighting the importance of preserving native wildlife, La Nube empowers visitors to become visionary thinkers and responsible changemakers for the natural world.”
Ram-arkable was created by the Green Hope Project in partnership with La Nube, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Socorro ISD and Ysleta ISD, according to the news release by La Nube.
According to La Nube, completed pieces were created by students from Parkland High School, Del Valle High School, Vista Del Sol Environmental Science Academy and by attendees in a child workshop from La Nube.
The art installation aims to bring awareness of trash/recycling, people’s impact on the local environment and how you can support wildlife conservation.
In addition, the art installation also serves ” as a celebration of the TPWD project to relocate some of the desert bighorn sheep from the Elephant Mountain Wildlife Management Area to Franklin Mountains State Park later this year,” according to La Nube.
For more information on Ram-arkable Resilience: Art Meets Conservation, you can contact the Green Hope Project through email at info@greenhopproject.org.
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