Message in a Bottle

Creativity for Change

Message in a Bottle is an artist-led project working with K through 8th grade students in a California school to raise awareness about the global efforts needed to preserve the world's oceans. Each class has released a silk-screened, recycled glass bottle loaded with inspiring student artwork and a message which outlines the current state of ocean degredation and invites each discoverer to participate in a global project by sending a found object for assemblage into a series of sculptures.

The message in a bottle specifically focuses on the threat of plastics to ocean life in specific context to the North Pacific Gyre and David de Rothschild will launch the school's apex bottle, 'Big Splash' - a 9 litre glass bottle which will be the world's first satellite tracked message bottle - whilst undertaking his 'Plastiki' mission to cross the Pacific in 2010.

See www.thescuttlefish.com/2011/01/the-message-bottle-project/ for further information.

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