{"id":11790,"date":"2016-06-02T07:54:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T11:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/?p=11790"},"modified":"2016-06-01T17:55:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T21:55:13","slug":"zoo-news-washed-ashore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/2016\/06\/zoo-news-washed-ashore\/","title":{"rendered":"The Other Zoo News &#8211; Washed Ashore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">With all the tragic news about Harambe, the silverback gorilla that was shot to save a child at the Cincinnati Zoo, it&#8217;s nice to see other positive zoo news.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Washed Ashore\" href=\"https:\/\/nationalzoo.si.edu\/ActivitiesAndEvents\/Celebrations\/washed-ashore.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Washed Ashore<\/a> is a multi-venue sculpture exhibit that is currently being hosted at the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Zoo through September 5, 2016. The large sea-life sculptures are made with plastic and other such trash items that have washed ashore.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">What a great and colorful use of everyday, tossed-and-forgotten objects that really validates the statement, &#8220;<em>One man&#8217;s trash is another man&#8217;s treasure.<\/em>&#8221; In this case, artwork that is truly everywhere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/washed-ashore-octopus-slider.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11793\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/washed-ashore-octopus-slider.jpg\" alt=\"washed-ashore-octopus-_Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/washed-ashore-octopus-slider.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/washed-ashore-octopus-slider-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/washed-ashore-shark.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11792\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/washed-ashore-shark.jpg\" alt=\"washed-ashore-shark_Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/washed-ashore-shark.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/washed-ashore-shark-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/washed-ashore-parrotfish.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11791\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/washed-ashore-parrotfish.jpg\" alt=\"washed-ashore-parrotfish_Art Is Everywhere\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/washed-ashore-parrotfish.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ashley-spencer.com\/ArtIsEverywhere\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/washed-ashore-parrotfish-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a little more info about <a title=\"WashedAshore.org\" href=\"http:\/\/washedashore.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Washed Ashore.org,<\/a> their other exhibits and educational programs and what you can do with trash that you may find washed ashore on your beach this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art Is Everywhere features other zoo news about Washed Ashore a great and colorful use of everyday, tossed-and-forgotten objects used for marine sculptures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[515,143,64,100],"tags":[2884,2885,2268,2883,2886],"class_list":["post-11790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-exhibitions","category-nature","category-sculpture","tag-sea-life-sculptures","tag-trash-art","tag-trash-to-treasure","tag-washed-ashore","tag-zoo-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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