Wilton Go Green Green Speaker Series: Dr. Katharine Owens

Dr. Katharine Owens will share how she uses the arts to communicate about the pervasive problem of plastic pollution with her talk “Entangled and Ingested: Combating Plastic Pollution Through Art”. As researcher and artist, Dr. Owens has spent the last year and a half creating a series of forty-six life-sized portraits of animals harmed by marine debris. She creates most of the pieces herself by hand sewing film plastic onto canvas, but the largest pieces (including three life-sized whales) are being co-created with the public. Presentation is from 2:00pm – 3:00pm.

After the presentation you can choose to stay and put your sewing skills tow work and help stitch one of Dr. Owen’s pieces. 3:00pm – 4:00pm

Wilton Library will be handling registration through their events page. Check in October.