Green Box Installation: Trouble in the Water | Dyan Ferren

May – June | OPEN HOURS: Saturday, June 12th | 10:00am – 12:00pm Saturday, June 19th | 10:00am – 12:00pm Saturday, June 26th | 10:00am – 12:00pm at: the Green Box – now located on 34th Street next to the Urban Gallery ARTIST STATEMENT In April, I participated in the Idaho Rivers United cleanup on the section of the Boise River that flows through the Live-Work-Create District here in Garden City. I create art out of trash collected on beaches and in the water to help educate the public about this monumental ‘trouble’ in our oceans, rivers, and lakes, worldwide. Each year, 8 million metric tons of plastics enter our oceans (Ocean Conservancy) and it is estimated that 150 million metric tons are currently circulating in the ocean gyres. In the Green Box, I display some of the trash taken from the river along with more of my marine art set in a ‘gyre’ of real beach trash (including fishing floats and nets.) ABOUT THE ARTIST Dyan Ferren is a self-taught artist who creates hangable assemblage sculpture from natural and manmade discarded materials and found objects. Originally from New Jersey, she moved to coastal Alaska in 1985 and credits the wild and beautiful surroundings in that state for generating her passion to create 3D work for the following three decades until moving to Idaho in 2015. It is important to Ms. Ferren to create art that serves as a handsome visual messenger to encourage people to reduce, reuse, and recycle materials to minimize the impact on the environment and improve the health of our planet. In addition, she also conducts workshops and exhibits teaching about recycling and the problem of pollution in our waterways and oceans around the world.