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FishNet: the Great Lakes Craft and Release Project

Claire Ironside

Sheridan Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning, Oakville, ON, Canada, info{at}projectfishnet.org

Angela Iarocci

Sheridan Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning, Oakville, ON, Canada, info{at}projectfishnet.org

This visual essay provides an overview of FishNet: The Great Lakes Craft and Release Project, an ecological collaborative art initiative based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, which started in 2007 and is currently still active. The project engaged approximately 1,500 elementary school students, teachers, artists, art and government organizations and volunteers in developing an arts-based educational experience and exhibition focusing on the fish of the Great Lakes bio-region.

Key Words: advocacy • art education • collaboration • ecological literacy • information design

Visual Communication, Vol. 8, No. 3, 349-360 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1470357209106629
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