Coachella Calls on Artists to Redesign Bins
If you’re an aspiring artist who is passionate about sustainability, now is your chance to inspire the hundreds of thousands of music lovers who will be attending this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival to recycle their trash at the annual event.
Nonprofit Global Inheritance will select 50 artists to redesign, decorate and embellish the 65-gallon recycling bins that will line the interactive art walk at April’s Coachella festival in Indio, Calif.
The “TRASHed: Art of Recycling” exhibit will be on display during both weekends of the festival to highlight the availability of recycling at the event and encourage festival goers to recycle. Once the concert is over, the bins will be donated to a local school in the Coachella Valley.
SEE: PHOTOS: Green at Coachella
The selected artists will receive a festival pass for the weekend of their choice, as well as the opportunity to have their artwork displayed and promoted on event websites and at a Los Angeles art show before the festival.
Artists can apply be sending in samples of their work to TRASHed@globalinheritance.org by Jan. 31.
Global Inheritance also organizes similar “TRASHed” art exhibits at other concerts and events including the ESPN Summer and Winter X Games, the Hollywood Bowl’s Outside Lands Festival and San Francisco’s Treasure Island Festival.
Earth911, which covered Coachella’s sustainability efforts last year, will return to the popular music festival again this year to bring you stories of the event’s environmental initiatives.
Homepage image by Alex Vietti, Earth911
