12th and Peeples
Digital flier designed by Haison Hopkins
This eco-art conservation project was led by Art & Nature 2023 students in collaboration with WaterWays of Chattanooga and ArtsBuild. On April 27th, 2:00pm, there will be an exhibition hosted showcasing found objects from the camp site and a documentary at the Apothecary Gallery. The documentary showcases students cleaning up the trash that is spilling into the Chattanooga Creek, which runs along the fence line of Peeples St. Camp. The class also made trash cans out of recycled bamboo sticks in hopes to reduce the littering in the creek by the residents and visitors.
“We’ve spent this semester reading about and discussing the connections between art and nature from many vantage points. We’ve read about the relationship between art and nature in the history of philosophy, environmental aesthetics, eco art, and ecological restoration. Our study cumulated with a community engagement project in which we cleaned up an area adjacent to a transitional housing encampment and put an exhibition together that documented and gave meaning to what we did.”
-Dr. Lucy Shultz