Northwoods Reporter

Dandelion Days - Bumblebee Day

When

Fri, July 1, 3pm – 5pm

Where

Artists on the Byway, 406 W Bayfield St, Washburn, WI 54891, USA (map)

Description

The first annual Bumblebee Day will take place at the Bumble Bee Art Garden, that you may have been watching grow next to Artists on the Byway Gallery on Bayfield Street in Washburn. This FREE event takes place on Friday, July 1st, as part of Washburn's Dandelion Days.

Tina Fung Holder will be teaching from 3-5 PM. She will be using her fiber arts skills to make cut paper dandelions with kids to highlight the plant that is so vital to endangered Bumblebees. 

The garden will also include an art and writing “station” with drawing and writing supplies and a display wall so that children and their adults can make and display art and writing  about bumblebees and the flowers that nurture them that afternoon.  After garden events, some art will be saved and hung  in the gallery, which will be open Thursday-Sundays, 11am-5pm, all summer.

A small “stage” in the garden will be available for those who wish to read their own poetry or sing their original bumblebee songs. The long sidewalk in front of the garden will be perfect for chalk drawings.

The Bumble Bee Art Garden is funded in part by a grant from the Washburn Community Education Foundation. It is free, open to all, and always open. When completed later this summer, it will contain information about endangered Bumblebees and a number of examples of public art, especially the art of young people commissioned  through the grant.

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