Images from a 2016 exhibit at the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts in Boone, North Carolina. My Community Based Arts class at Appalachian State University worked with the New River Conservancy, community groups, and curator Mary Anne Redding to install a river of trash collected from the river in the art gallery.

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The entrance to the exhibit
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overview of river trash installation
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Collecting trash from the river with the Mountain Alliance, a local youth group.
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Student Kelsey Wagner puts finishing touches on the river of trash
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Microscopic and Macroscopic photography by Tom Hansell
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Detail of river trash installation.