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The North Carolina Zoo sent out a press release yesterday about the Visiting Artists working in the kidZone. I received nice placement in the release and was featured in the accompanying photo:
NC Zoo photo by Tom Gillespie
Kristine Goad (standing left), one of six visiting artists at the North Carolina Zoo in July, engages children in her “The Whole Wide Wonderful World of Water” project. The project is part of a larger Visiting Artists Program at the zoo throughout July. Goad’s project is designed to engage children in poetry, movement, visual art and storytelling.
As far as photos go, it has some attractive elements (excluding me, of course!). I like that it captures the size of the group, the tarp we used as the river and the ocean (such a lovely shade of blue!), and the Artist's Cove wall behind me. I wish, however, that it was an active shot. We are "rehearsing" sound effects here that we will use once Walter's Water Adventure actually begins. (Walter is a water drop and the kids accompany him on an adventure through the water cycle.) The kids look a little bored here, but I can assure you they weren't bored a few moments later when the real, 3-D story began!
You can read the full press release here.
I don't know that the story has been picked up anywhere yet aside from the blog of the Executive Director of the North Carolina Zoo Society, Russlings.
