Bumblebuzz

Art in the Park Community Arts is excited to share good news. Director Jessica Levine has been chosen as a recipient of the prestigious Black Rock Arts Foundation grant award. This award is designed to help the chosen artist actualize a creative vision. This will help to make the Art in the Park's 2009 Pollinator Appreciation summer program possible.

We are pleased to invite the community to a series of fun, free of charge, open to all, hands-on art and gardening activities this summer to learn about pollination, a process essential to our food supply, and to celebrate National Pollinator Week, June 22 to 28. Environmental education activities will be happening all around the area, including Farmers Markets in Ronceverte and Lewisburg, and impromptu locations.

What will happen? A bicycle/ sculpture that illustrates pollination is the highly portable centerpiece of community art-making activities. The gardening aspect of the program is focused on creating butterfly gardens with native plants. The first event will be held on June 11, from 11 AM to 1 PM. Amy McIntire of Enchanters' Garden Nursery, Hinton will lead "Create a Butterfly Garden" at 208 Holt Lane, Lewisburg. Art activities will start on Saturday, June 20, from 10 to 11 AM at the Lewisburg Farmers' Market led by Caroline Smith. This mixed-media hands-on art activity is appropriate for participants of all ages and called "Bumblebuzz: an art project to study pollination".

2009 Art in the Park Community Arts Pollinator Appreciation Activity Schedule

Thursday, June 11 @ 11AM to 1 PM with Amy MacIntire at 208 Holt Lane, Lewisburg - Create a Butterfly Garden: site selection, plant selection, and design

Tuesday, June 16 @ 10 - 11 AM with Marcia Wilson-Cales at Ronceverte Farmers' Market - pollinator art project

Saturday, June 20 @ 10 - 11 AM with Caroline Smith at Lewisburg Farmers Market - Bumblebuzz: the art project.

Monday, June 22 @ 6 - 8 PM with Amy MacIntire at 318 North Court St, Lewisburg - Create a Butterfly Garden: pollinators and wetlands

Wednesday, June 24 @ 6 - 8 PM with Anne Canterbury at 318 North Court Street, Lewisburg / Walk + Talk: The Magic of Plants

Saturday, June 27 @ 10 - 11 AM with Caroline Smith at Lewisburg Farmers Market - Bumblebuzz: the art project

Tuesday, June 30 @ 10 - 11 AM with Mariah Miller at Ronceverte Farmers' Market - Bumblebuzz: the art project

Friday, July 03 @ downtown Lewisburg First Friday / meet Bumblebuzz, a moveable beast bike sculpture

Saturday, July 11 @ 9 - 10 AM Dr. David Essig-Beatty, Lewisburg Farmers Market, Lewisburg- Walk and Talk: Healing Plants in Your Neighborhood

Saturday, July 11 @ 2 - 5 PM Amy MacIntire at John Wesley Methodist Church, 208 Foster Street, Lewisburg- Create a Butterfly Garden: planting a butterfly garden