ARTULA INSTITUTE FOR ART AND ENVIRONMENTAL ED
PO Box 1139, Bandon, OR 97411

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Organizations Filed Purposes: Artula Institute for Arts and Environmental Educations mission is to provide opportunities to express and teach environmental issues through the arts.

Washed Ashore is the cultural focal project of Artula Institute for Arts and Environmental Education, a non-profit corporation. Washed Ashores mission is to build and exhibit aesthetically powerful art to educate a global audience about plastic pollution in the ocean and waterways and to spark postitive changes in consumer habits. The multi-layered process to develop the charateristic Washed Ashore art starts at the beach. Many miles of Oregon Coastline are strewn with plastic marine debris coming from a variety of sources, including the North Pacific Gyre. Garbage comes from rivers to the ocean, from beaches from marine vessels,and from continent to contenent. It is the picked up from beach by hand, one piece at a time, and brought into our Washed Ashore processing facility to be rinsed, washed, cut drilled and prepared for community member workshops. The entire process is carefully directed by the Artistic Director with details of the artwork done by the Lead Artist. Thousands of people volunteer to drill stitch, string, weave and attach cleaned plastic debris onto wire mesh in what is referred to as piece-work. Simple to complex methods are developed to incorporate volunteers of all ages and abilities. Workshops are free to the public and offer a fun, interactive community gathering spot as well as presenting an educational forum for ocean stewardship. In the past 9 years, Washed Ashore has collected over 26 tons of marine debris, (disposed lighters, crushed plastic bins, lost beach shovels, water bottles and derilick fishing nets, etc.) and transformed it into over 80 nationally featured art pieces. It is estimated that over 25 million people have seen Washed Ashore exhibits in person. Secretary of State, John Kerry invited Washed Ashore to display nine art pieces at the U.S. State Department in 2016 for the Our Ocean Conference. In 2017, the United Nations hosted four sculptures at their first International Ocean Conference in New York City. This international attention has resulted in worldwide recognition and requests for creating satellite projects and commissioned art work. Media attention has included, a CNN 20 minute feature, PBS Newshour, NPR morning edition interview, Reuters International T.V., New York Times interview, and international magazines, books, blogs and newpapers. While being known world wide, Bandon is the humble home-base of this project and it depends heavily on its community for its success. Along with the volunteer workshop, Washed Ashore does outreach projects into campgrounds, schools and partners with service groups. In Old Town, Washed Ashore has hosted over 24,000 visitors in the last nine years in its Eco-Shift Marktet, Exhibit Gallery and Education Center and involved over 14,000 volunteers to assisted in making the sculptures. In 2019, Oregon Zoo commissioned a permanent piece of a California Condor, which will be installed in April 2020. In the year 2020, the 10th Anniversary of Washed ashore, exhibits will be hosted in a wide range of places: shopping malls in Vancouver B.C., and Deleware, The Florida Aquarium, Sonoma State Fair and Oregon Zoo.

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