Artworks by Students to Promote Oil Spill Awareness

We were all horrified with the news last year about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Recently, the International Game Fish Association Hall of Fame in Dania Beach exhibited hundreds of students’ art projects created to raise awareness about the disastrous event last year. Lead by the Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation with support from the Sun Sentinel News in Education program, the “Save our Gulf” art and essay contest netted more than 1,000 student entries. Students who entered in the essay writing contest were asked to write a brief story regarding their feeling about the damages that this occurrence has caused Mother Earth.  Scanning the students’ artworks on display, Harvey, a noted marine artist and conservationist, said the initiative came in response to growing public concern over the spill’s environmental impact. “Our goal was to reach as many students as possible, and this was a tremendous effort by the students and a wonderful way to engage them. They displayed a wonderful range of subject matter,” Harvey said.