Can a life focused on environmental sustainability also be a creative one?  This panel will focus on artists who turn discarded utilitarian objects into art through recycling and upcycling, as well as how art can be used to raise awareness and inspire action around environmental justice and impact.

Moderator:

• Jean Ponzi, Green Resources Manager, Missouri Botanical Garden's EarthWays Center

Panelists:

• Mitch Cope, Artist, Powerhouse Project and Design 99

• Laura Fried, Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art Museum

• Marilu Knode, Executive Director, Laumeier Sculpture Park/Aronson Endowed Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, University of Missouri - St. Louis

• Leah Nguyen, Project Manager of Prevention Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis

• Paul Villinski, Visual Artist
  

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