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Clackamas Water Environment Services (WES) has obtained a grant from the PGE Renewable Development Fund to collaborate with Clackamas Community College’s Environmental Learning Center and Clackamas Community College Art Department to create a unique educational campaign that intersects the fields of art, education, clean water, and renewable energy. The PGE Renewable Development Fund is funded exclusively by 225,000 Oregonians enrolled in PGE’s Green Future renewable energy program. The project will help educate our local businesses and community members on the importance of the biogas project at the Tri-City Water Resource Recovery Facility, and its role in protecting watershed health and addressing climate challenges.
A series of community engagement activities will inform the team about what matters most to the community regarding watershed health and climate change, and will serve to influence and support the design of a series of PGE Renewable Energy and Watershed Interpretative Public Art Murals.
Join us for a free and fun online workshop!
Sat, Sept. 12, 2020, 9 a.m. to noon
Participants in this workshop will:
- Strengthen their knowledge of watershed ecosystems and their impacts on our lives.
- Provide inspiration for the creation of the 2021 Tri City Water Resource Recovery facility Public Art Murals.
- Practice drawing techniques and procedures under the guidance of an experienced artist and instructor.
- Explore the use of various drawing mediums and their use.
In class discussions on watershed health, climate change, habitat preservation and the creation of images will be used as a source of ideas for the creation and installation of the 2021 Public Art Murals at the Tri-City Water Resource Recovery Facility.
David Andersen will guide beginning through advanced drawing students through a number of basic drawing techniques, culminating with a finished graphite drawing of a natural organism from our ecosystem.
About the Artist
David Raphael Andersen began his early career working as an Entomologist for Environmental Labs where he expedited USDA grants on pesticides. After several years working in this field he changed directions and decided to become a visual artist.
Since graduating with his MFA degree (Painting) from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah in 1988, Andersen has worked as an artist, studio instructor and full time Director of Galleries at 5 universities and colleges. He is currently Professor of Art at Clackamas Community College in Oregon City, OR, where he directs the Drawing and Painting programs.
An internationally exhibited artist, Andersen has also received numerous grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, California Arts Council, Texas Commission on the Arts, Nevada Arts Council, Sierra Arts Foundation and the Clackamas CC Foundation. His work has also been reviewed and written about in Art in America, The New York Times, San Diego Union Tribune, The Oregonian and the Los Angeles Times among others.
16 years ago Andersen left the retail galleries that had represented him, moved away from social media as a promotional tool, backed away from the business associated with contemporary art world concerns and began to emphasize education as a tool for societal change…while continuing to create work in a prolific manner.
