A fitting water world.Byline: Jack Moran The Register-Guard GLENWOOD - Nobody's saying that this community lacks local color local color n. 1. The interest or flavor of a locality imparted by the customs and sights peculiar to it. 2. The use of regional detail in a literary or an artistic work. . But as BRING Recycling's Executive Director Julie Daniel points out, a tile mosaic display installed Friday at her organization's new Planet Improvement Center complex on Franklin Boulevard is, in a literal sense, "probably the most colorful thing in Glenwood." Pieced together by a local group of nine women known as the ArtChics, the water-themed piece of public art took all summer to create. It features several handmade hand·made adj. Made or prepared by hand rather than by machine. handmade Adjective made by hand, not by machine Adj. 1. , ceramic fish that appear to be swimming through a swirling sea of green, blue and white tiles. Recycled glass bottle bottoms pepper the design. "We went with this idea because water is a basic recycler in our Earth system," said Mari Livie, an ArtChic from Eugene. Group members are longtime BRING supporters who during the past three years have raised several thousand dollars for the nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. recycling organization through the sale of homemade home·made adj. 1. Made or prepared in the home: homemade pie. 2. Made by oneself. 3. Crudely or simply made. Adj. 1. greeting cards See e-card. . BRING secured a $2,000 grant from the Lane County Cultural Coalition to fund the mosaic project, Daniel said. The ArtChic-created piece - which winds around the base of a building on the BRING property and is visible from Franklin Boulevard - is the first of many art installations planned for the Planet Improvement Center. "It won't be long before we can host our own art tour here," Daniel said. "We have big plans." Earlier this summer, BRING's new headquarters hosted a traveling art exhibit with crafts created from discarded dis·card v. dis·card·ed, dis·card·ing, dis·cards v.tr. 1. To throw away; reject. 2. a. To throw out (a playing card) from one's hand. b. items. BRING moved earlier this year into its expansive digs at 4446 Franklin Boulevard. The organization previously operated out of a cramped space off Seavey Loop Road. Established in 1971, BRING is one of the nation's oldest nonprofit recyclers. |
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