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Deanna Maich-Kohler - the driver but I take passengers!

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Environmental Artist Deanna Maich-Kohler is a registered teacher and offers environmental workshops in her local region of Atherton. Her workshops are available as one on one of group over most holidays. The include: eco dyeing cloth, natural dye painting, upcycling clothes, hapa-zome (hammered plant prints). "The lack of legislation around plastics and toxins in landfill and our marine world can be overbearing. Changing our language and habits are things we can do to make this world more liveable for future generations" Deanna delivers workshops not only focussing on new skills, but investigating where we source our arts supplies, the role we play in maintaining a healthy environment, and how we can influence others with environmental choices. Deanna has an undergraduate degree in languages and theatre, a diploma in arts and a Graduate Diploma in Education. She is one of the founding members of ACAC - Atherton Childrens Art Club, which was established in 2014. She has recently (Dec 2017) illustrated three of her sister's books - Bianca Begovich.

Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Atherton Childrens Art Society ACAC October 2015 exhibition

The Herberton Road Refuse Centre was instrumental in my collection of hubcaps and some bower bird pieces including a large box of buttons for the workshops. The students washed and assembled the pieces with the help of volunteers. We studied how the environment can be improved or damaged by our actions. The workshops concerned marine debris and the repercussions of disposing of our wrappers, plastic cups into the waterways and most importantly how we can reduce waste by using other items. 









Three jellyfish displayed with the children's year of arts at the Foyer Gallery on Wednesday 7th October.

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  1. Anonymous29 October 2015 at 21:03

    So good to see kids exposed to the plight of our rubbish-creations. Plastic toys and craft shops are spitting out ready made stickers etc like there's no tomorrow. If we don't buy into buying this stuff the production will stop...plus our kids wont be in the habit of demanding stuff!

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  2. Bianca11 November 2015 at 18:07

    Love the reuse of the hub cap - it looks so great and good for kids to know about reusing our old junk that would otherwise end up goodness knows where

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