Local students help the environment
The marine artist’s Blue Trigger Fish
The artist Rogest teaches a group of students
A turtle created by artist Rogest
Friday, July 22, 2005
Local students are to raise funds for the Department of the Environment and
the National Trust with help from an international marine artist.
The Rogest Kids Gallery Programme during Kids Sea Camp in Grand Cayman will
include a special international marine artist this year, and local students
will be participating in the activities.
The Kids Gallery Programme is designed to provide an environment that
focuses on lifelong learning, relationships and respect for oneself and others
by bringing the study and concepts of environmental education and visual art
to life, and to introduce students to the ecology of the world's oceans
through art.
Working alongside renowned marine artist Ron Steven, known as Rogest, local
children ages 12 to 16 will create their own unique piece of dot art over two
half-day sessions on 25 and 26 July.
The Kids Gallery Programme will be hosted at Divetech at Cobalt Coast
Resort in West Bay as a part of Kids Sea Camp activities for local students to
participate in. Rogest will engage the students in discussions of the habitat,
species diversity and inter-relatedness, as well as the aboriginal culture of
Australia. Students will research a marine organism of their choice and with
the assistance of Rogest, each student will create a painting of their chosen
organism in the Australian Aboriginal style of dot painting. Students will
learn about marine ecology, sustainability and population diversity;
aboriginal traditions, beliefs and customs; acrylic painting skills and
techniques as well as have the opportunity to have their work contribute to
the marine environment.
On Friday, 29 July between 3:00 and 5:00 pm, the art and the students’
descriptions of the organism and its habitat will be displayed at The
Butterfly Farm. An auction will be conducted during this time for parents and
local businesses to bid on all of the paintings. We wish to celebrate the
raising of these funds and the enjoyment of painting with the community at
large, and are calling on all businesses and parents to come and join us and
bid on the works of art created by our youth. With up to 40 students
participating, the Kids Gallery Programme will raise much needed funds.
Through education and art we wish to engage the community for the betterment
of the environment.
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