We haven't posted in a long time because we have been so busy! Keep reading to hear all of the exciting things we have done in the past two weeks...

jenna had a great meeting with the Commissioner of the Environment for Chicago, a Public Recycling Educator, the Project Manager of Chciago's Zero Waste Program, and the Alderman for Ward 49, Joe Moore. The meeting was set up by Joe Moore and was a great chance for us to make new contacts and expand our recycling project while promoting serious change within the city!

Our biggest challenge recently has been the finalization of our sculpture installation and we have been meeting like crazy to create ideas, sketches, presentations, and RIC shirts together! We are hoping for a space in the front courtyard of the Notebaert Nature Museum, they have been very supportive of the idea but have not been able to finalize anything with us yet (a big stresser!) Here are some sketches for the final idea we came up with and a picture of one of our late night meetings that went on for hours and hours and hours...



The public event will be facilitated by Canadian, American, and Korean artists, some who have been working with us all along, others who we will bring in especially for this event. We will start the event at 10am on Saturday the 21st and will end at 5pm. There will be 10 artists facilitating the event, including jenna and myself, all of us will be dressed in the same t-shirts with our recycling logo printed on them. We will be actively engaging with the community to answer any questions and promote recycling while we facilitate the actual building of the sculptures.

The ideas we ended up with were actually inspired by one of our team members Jung A. She has done amazing work in the past... look at these images...


Jung A will also be continuing our neighborhood recycling project after jenna and myself leave the country! She has a gallery show coming up that deals with environmental issues so she will collect the materials just as we have and use it for another installation!

So to wrap up, we are here going crazy with work, but making really exciting things happen! look out for the finalization of the space and times for the event and a sneak peak of our recycling team member shirts (you'll want to own one after you see them!)

Thanks,
jenna and ryan
(faut art)