A COMMUNITY MAKES ITS MARK AT JOPPA FLATS
Joppa Flats Tile Project Encourages Community Involvement
Joppa Flats Education Center invites all community members to add their personal touch to a tile mosaic that will be displayed outside The Lookout, their new green education room for children and families. For $25 a tile, community members can paint a nature-inspired theme on a tile, which will become part of the mosaic and a permanent part of Joppa Flats. On June 5th, the tile mosaic will be unveiled during a day of family programs at Joppa Flats Biodiversity Celebration.
“I’m excited about helping Joppa Flats with this project. It’s easy and fun to paint a tile, and this gives people a chance to paint beautiful things from nature that they love, then have them displayed permanently at Newburyport’s nature center,” said Pottery Isle owner Kathy Ryan, who is hosting the tile painting parties at her shop located in the Tannery on Water Street. Kathy and Mass Audubon volunteers will be present at each tile painting session to help painters and will provide nature pictures for inspiration, stencils, and ideas.
People of all ages and artistic abilities are invited to participate in the Joppa Flats Tile Project. For more information or to sign up to paint a tile, please call Joppa Flats at 978-462-9998.
Mass Audubon’s Joppa Flats Education Center, located at One Plum Island Turnpike in Newburyport, is a natural history education and visitor center that is open to the public Tuesday through Sunday and Monday holidays, 8:30am to 4pm. Call 978-462-9998 for information about additional programs and events, or visit the website at www.massaudubon.org.
Mass Audubon works to protect the nature of Massachusetts for people and wildlife. Together with more than 100,000 members, we care for 34,000 acres of conservation land, provide educational programs for 225,000 children and adults annually, and advocate for sound environmental policies at local, state, and federal levels. Mass Audubon’s mission and actions have expanded since our beginning in 1896 when our founders set out to stop the slaughter of birds for use on women’s fashions. Today we are the largest conservation organization in New England. Our statewide network of wildlife sanctuaries, in 90 Massachusetts communities, welcomes visitors of all ages and serves as the base for our work. To support these important efforts, call 800-AUDUBON (283-8266) or visit www.massaudubon.org.
