gARTbage: Educating children about garbage in the oceans by creating art made from it


	Home - gARTbage Artworks - Children's gARTbage -What Can I Do? - Links The 'Keep Track of Your Beach Toy's Project - Ride the Wave for a Cleaner Ocean Welcome to gARTbage. My name is Teresa Espaniola. I am an artist and an ocean lover who creates art using garbage I collect from the beaches near my Southern California home.The purpose of my gARTbage art is to bring awareness about the state of our oceans through fun and humor. My passion is working with children by introducing marine debris art and ocean science to the classroom. By bringing ocean pollution awareness to the children, they incorporate this awareness into action in their young lives ~ and then teach adults to do the same. Everything flows to the ocean eventually. Let's make our oceans healthy again! Each individual counts. Together we really can do it. View my film: Navigators of a New Time; charting our way towards a sustainable future About my work: You can see my gARTbage art by clicking on 'gARTbage Artworks' above. My artwork is currently hanging in Sea Life Aquarium in Carlsbad, California. Follow this Sea Life Aquarium link for directions and hours of operation. You can email me here: info@gartbage.org - To view my fine art: TeresaEspaniola.com Beach Trash, A Whale of a Problem! Follow this link for information and blog about *"Beach Trash, A Whale of a Problem", an environmental art project created by the first grade classes and their teachers at Jefferson Elementary IB School in Carlsbad, California. I am honored to be a part of the team/community that created this. The 21+ foot long whale banner, which was hanging at Sea Life Aquarium in Carlsbad and at the Chula Vista Nature Center, is now hanging at the San Diego Coastkeeper office in the Liberty Station complex. http://www.sdcoastkeeper.org/ Check out their website and see all of the things they are doing for our oceans! If you are intrested in displaying Li'l Gray, send me an email. This project has received global coverage here, here and here. Watch this 5 minute clip for the full story. Watch this clip for the local news coverage: FOX 5 NEWS I support SD Surfrider, Surfrider's RiseAbovePlastics and San Diego Coastkeeper I encourage you to support your local chapters in whatever way works for you. Volunteer at a beach clean-up or fundraising event. Get involved! Donated for the 2010 Surfrider Art Gala & the 2011 San Diego Coaskeeper Art Gala Surfrider donation: Waves of Silence* & San Diego Coastkeeper donation: Family Picnic Sea Bird Little Italy North Art d'Strada Little Italy North held their first annual Street Art Festival on 9/24/11. I was invited to create gARTbage for the show by Elizabeth Scalice, owner of Architectural Salvage, a very fun store! There were many artists showing their work created from recycled materials. Little Italy North Art d'Strada Thank you Elizabeth and Enrique! The Aqua Phoenix, SoCal Peli & Elizabeth Scalice with The Great Pacific Garbage Bath The Aqua Phoenix Window of Our Sole, The Great Pacific Garbage Bath & SoCal Peli

Home - gARTbage Artworks - Children's gARTbage -What Can I Do? - Links

The 'Keep Track of Your Beach Toy's Project - Ride the Wave for a Cleaner Ocean

Welcome to gARTbage. My name is Teresa Espaniola. I am an artist and an ocean lover who creates art using garbage I collect from the beaches near my Southern California home.The purpose of my gARTbage art is to bring awareness about the state of our oceans through fun and humor. My passion is working with children by introducing marine debris art and ocean science to the classroom. By bringing ocean pollution awareness to the children, they incorporate this awareness into action in their young lives ~ and then teach adults to do the same. Everything flows to the ocean eventually. Let's make our oceans healthy again! Each individual counts. Together we really can do it.

View my film: Navigators of a New Time; charting our way towards a sustainable future

About my work:

You can see my gARTbage art by clicking on 'gARTbage Artworks' above. My artwork is currently hanging in Sea Life Aquarium in Carlsbad, California. Follow this Sea Life Aquarium link for directions and hours of operation. You can email me here: info@gartbage.org - To view my fine art: TeresaEspaniola.com

Beach Trash, A Whale of a Problem!

Follow this link for information and blog about "Beach Trash, A Whale of a Problem", an environmental art project created by the first grade classes and their teachers at Jefferson Elementary IB School in Carlsbad, California. I am honored to be a part of the team/community that created this. The 21+ foot long whale banner, which was hanging at Sea Life Aquarium in Carlsbad and at the Chula Vista Nature Center, is now hanging at the San Diego Coastkeeper office in the Liberty Station complex. http://www.sdcoastkeeper.org/ Check out their website and see all of the things they are doing for our oceans! If you are intrested in displaying Li'l Gray, send me an email. This project has received global coverage here, here and here. Watch this 5 minute clip for the full story. Watch this clip for the local news coverage: FOX 5 NEWS

I support SD Surfrider, Surfrider's RiseAbovePlastics and San Diego Coastkeeper I encourage you to support your local chapters in whatever way works for you. Volunteer at a beach clean-up or fundraising event. Get involved!

Donated for the 2010 Surfrider Art Gala & the 2011 San Diego Coaskeeper Art Gala

Surfrider donation: Waves of Silence & San Diego Coastkeeper donation: Family Picnic Sea Bird

Little Italy North Art d'Strada

Little Italy North held their first annual Street Art Festival on 9/24/11. I was invited to create gARTbage for the show by Elizabeth Scalice, owner of Architectural Salvage, a very fun store! There were many artists showing their work created from recycled materials. Little Italy North Art d'Strada Thank you Elizabeth and Enrique!

The Aqua Phoenix, SoCal Peli & Elizabeth Scalice with The Great Pacific Garbage Bath

The Aqua Phoenix

Window of Our Sole, The Great Pacific Garbage Bath & SoCal Peli