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Coastal Corridor Alliance turns river trash into traveling 10x20-foot mosaic
Summary
A nonprofit detailed a months-long effort to collect and clean trash from the Santa Ana River mouth and convert reusable material into community-made art that will be displayed around Orange County.
The Coastal Corridor Alliance presented a community art project on June 5 to the Costa Mesa Arts Commission that repurposes trash collected at the Santa Ana River mouth into large-format mosaics.
The group’s deputy director, Brett Vavos, said the organization—best known for the preservation campaign around Banning Ranch, now called the Randall Preserve—led the initiative to both engage residents and promote conservation. “From the beginning, our goal has always been to make stunning art,” said project staffer Astras (Astris) Perez, who described the group’s five-month trash-collection effort.
The project team collected primarily beach and river-mouth debris, sorted it, cleaned items deemed suitable for handling and built temporary mosaics at public events in Fairview Park. Perez said the…
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