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Jaguar: Biodiversity Social-Art Project
You are invited to join and be a vital part of “Sewing Spots Together”.
It’s free. It’s fun. It’s wild!
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“Sewing Spots Together” uses hands-on, public art making to bring people together to discover, discuss, and value the importance of connecting wild spaces (“spots”) and preserving biodiversity throughout the jaguar’s native range. Please see this PDF for a visual and conceptual understanding of what the project actually is, and to learn how your group can experience the empowerment that comes with being part of something of great and wide importance. |
| With the help of the Southwest Office of Defenders of Wildlife, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Saguaro National Park, friends, food and laughs, I have already created the “head” and “tail” of this potentially infinitely looooooooooooong jaguar made mostly of re-used junk and old clothes that visually showcases the diverse plants, animals, geography, and people that live within the elusive wild cat’s range from South America to Arizona. As it grows, the project will be exhibited in museums, public spaces, and at events around Arizona and beyond. To follow our jaguar as he migrates, please visit the social art blog! |
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| We want to invite your group to create one of the many 8-foot long panels that will be added to the middle. You are welcome to take the project and run with it, or, please contact me if you’d like me to personally visit your classroom to show the “head” and “tail” and to help your students create their own middle panel. Also, please contact me to find out where to mail your finished piece in order to have it added to the travelling project and to receive notices of all the places the jaguar you helped create will be travelling! |
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You may also wish to use the project for the promotion of your own conservation-focused initiatives and fundraising due to our shared environmental and social goals. Please contact me to discuss your involvement, to share your ideas, or to ask questions.
Visit Defenders of Wildlife for information on jaguars in the United States, and the bi-national Northern Jaguar Project for information on the northern most breeding population of wild jaguars.
For fun here is my jaguar/biodiversity-adapted version of the song “Stayin’ Alive” and the music to accompany it! |
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Please send Stephanie an e-mail or give her a call
(US 520.904.2364) to learn about how you or your group can be part of this
jaguar-biodiversity social- art project |
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