Volunteers from the Narrow River Preservation came together on Saturday, August 10th to entertain many families looking to get creative in nature. The weather from the previous evening left many doubtful if the event would go ahead on Saturday morning, but it quickly turned into a beautiful day to have fun with art.
The Narrow River Preservation Association hosted their annual Art on the River event at the Middlebridge Marina, featuring beautiful scenic views of the Narrow River. The event attracts both local and not so local visitors, some walking down their driveway and others traveling as far as Brooklyn, New York to join in the fun.
Since the Town of Narragansett purchased this land along the Narrow River in 2012, President Veronica Berounsky and her team at NRPA have used the Narrow River Preserve for educational outreach and community engagement.
Locals and visitors alike could print seaweed and fish on paper and T-shirts, decorate the inside of quahog shells, and paint glamorous plein air portraits of the river.
The kelp station involved dipping the kelp in water and letting it dry in the sun on a sheet of paper. This caused the kelp to stick to the page and created an interesting but natural work of art. Volunteers Vanda Brazda and Martin Brazda from the Czech Republic were in charge of the kelp pressing station and traveled from New York City to help that morning.
