Eco-Art: FLAP for the Birds
Purposeful Printmaking Project
A team of ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ B.Ed students led the FLAP (Fatal Light Awareness Project) eco-art project to help raise awareness of the challenges of bird deaths around high buildings in the city. Over 300 handmade bird prints were created by ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ B.Ed students, and distributed to all of the ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ offices with windows, reminding faculty and staff of the challenges for birds caused by light pollution in high rise buildings. The prints acted as an artistic advocacy tool for people in the ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ building to close their office blinds each night, turn off overhead office lights, and use task-focused lighting at night to minimize the likelihood of birds crashing into their office windows. What is good for the birds is good for us and for the planet - these practices reduce our energy use in the building as well.
Collaborating Artists: ²ÝÝ®ÎÛÊÓƵµ¼º½ B.Ed students Raysha Carmichael, Michelle Attard, Sindy Lui, and faculty member Hilary Inwood
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