{"id":312575,"date":"2022-06-09T08:35:56","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T15:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/?p=312575"},"modified":"2022-06-07T13:43:54","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T20:43:54","slug":"pacific-beach-student-artist-spruces-up-garnet-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/pacific-beach-student-artist-spruces-up-garnet-avenue\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Beach student artist spruces up Garnet Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even trash cans have artwork on them in Pacific Beach thanks to a contribution by a Pacific Beach Middle School student.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery eighth-grader at PBMS has to do a community service project and I wanted to do something that incorporated art, something I\u2019m passionate about,\u201d said young artist Makena Seiler. \u201cSo I found a nonprofit, beautifulPB, and they had this idea that I could put something on trash cans on Garnet. We brainstormed and decided to use endangered birds, and I got a list from the Audubon Society for what birds to use.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur latest\u00a0art\u00a0installation is up on Garnet Avenue,\u00a0which we’re calling \u2018Explore\u00a0PB’s Wild Side,\u2019\u201d said beautifulPB president Katie Matchett. \u201cIt features pictures of local\u00a0birds created by a number of different\u00a0PB\u00a0artists including Makena Seiler. It’s a great project and we hope to build on it with more plaques and other\u00a0art\u00a0installations in the future. Community public art beautifies our public spaces, and inspires dynamic cooperation throughout a neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe first discussed this idea about putting art on the trash cans a few years ago,\u201d said Leslie Dufour of beautifulPB, who manages community art murals for the grassroots nonprofit, which works to create a more sustainable, equitable, and beautiful Pacific Beach. \u201cLike many ideas, it fell by the wayside. Then Makena Seiler approached us. We thought, \u2018bingo, this could be a great community project that fosters the values of anti-littering and getting to know and care for our PB environment.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Dufour noted everything \u201cfell into place\u201d with Seiler\u2019s school art project. \u201cMakena provided us some beautiful artwork, we located a few other talented professional artists \u2013 Hilary Dufour, and David Krimmel \u2013 and we\u00a0were able to replicate the fantastic artwork from the Kendall Frost murals, (that are being torn down)\u00a0 including the mural by Kyla-Yu Swanson,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Added Dufour, \u201cIt was really time to add more art to Garnet, especially art that supported our aspirations and wasn’t prohibitively expensive. It succeeded because of the enthusiasm of the artists, the installer, Heather Clinkenbeard, the printer, T&S Signs, Discover PB, beautifulPB, and the local folks at the Audubon Society.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pacific Beach Middle School student Makena Seiler sits next to a brown pelican, one of four local endangered bird species she painted with watercolors and colored pencils, which are now decorating trash cans in Pacific Beach. COURTESY PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seiler started using watercolors while painting her four endangered birds, a project she began in January. But she switched to using colored pencils after a while because \u201cthe birds stood out more and the background did too.\u201d She added this was just the first batch of artistically rendered birds. \u201cWe\u2019re going to come up with another one soon,\u201d she noted.<\/p>\n

Asked about the objective of her art project, Seiler replied: \u201cPeople should pick up their trash that endangers the ocean, the wetlands, the birds, and other endangered animals.<\/p>\n

Discussing what she\u2019s gotten out of her project, Seiler answered, \u201cHow to do different styles of art, learning more about the environment. I didn\u2019t know there were so many endangered birds and animals in my community. We need to preserve their habitats.\u201d<\/p>\n

The budding artist received school credit and an award for successfully completing her art project which, thus far, has drawn rave reviews.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe IB coordinator and my principal want to scan some of my favorite ones (birds) and put them around the school so I can spread awareness (there) too to get people to pick up their trash,\u201d Seiler said adding, \u201cI\u2019m just thankful to beautifulPB for helping with this project by getting the trash cans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Endangered bird trash can art joins nearly 50 public art murals scattered around the beach community, not even counting painted crosswalks or decorated utility boxes, which are dispersed throughout town. There is a descriptive map with bios of murals artists and their work at\u00a0hermosapb.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See more information about the community endangered bird trash can art project at \u00a0https:\/\/beautifulpb.com\/explore-<\/a>pb<\/a>-wild-side\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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