Celebrating Earth Day with Awbury Arboretum and Art-Reach

Today a group of artists from the Cultural Arts Center visited the Awbury Arboretum to participate in an Earth Day event sponsored by Art-Reach, a great organization dedicated to increasing arts accessibility to people of all ages and abilities. We learned about invasive plant species and helped to weed the arboretum grounds of one particular offender, the garlic mustard plant, which is not native to the western hemisphere.

We also created journals, bugs, and clay leaves with help from representatives from the Main Line Art Center, enjoyed a picnic lunch, and went for a walk through the arboretum's beautiful grounds.


Starting out on our nature walk


Tom, Leroy, Diane and Linda bag up some garlic mustard plants


Matt Bryan from Art-Reach and Marcos


Mary and Myron


Tom, plus Madeline, David and Hector


Ramona and Myron


George and Tom work on decorating their journals


Myron and Madeline make bugs with a teacher from the Main Line Art Center


Myron with his completed journal


After doing some crafting, we walked through the Arboretum grounds. In this picture is Hector, Madeline, David and Ramona.


Marcos, George, Linda, Tom and Myron




Mary makes a wish for more beautiful spring days like today!