Centro León inaugurates a mural made with waste

A new mural created from recycled solid waste was opened in the external walls of the community educational Lux Mundi, where the artist Marcelo Ferder, together students of average for that school, they left embodied a message of environmental protection and care of the city, using 20 bags of garbage, different types of technological waste, 15 bags of cement and half cubic metre of sand.

The mural, located in calle Gustavo Mejía Ricart, in the walls of the school, representing the 6th Edition of the lion Centre Reciclada City program, which in the city of Santo Domingo has, moreover, under the auspices of the Foundation directed.

This is the sixth mural that inaugurates the Eduardo León Jimenes Foundation, of which four are in Santiago and two in Santo Domingo, explained María Amalia León of George, Director of the Fundación Eduardo León Jimenes and academic Director of the colegio Lux u000aMundi.

Said that with the Foundation directed engage schools and colleges where they work for approximately six weeks, in which the artist makes the design together with the students and create art of waste solids.

"When creating art this hard wall softens, because it communicates that there is a mural in the world, which is an adapted text of the poem of the national poet don Pedro Mir", added.

He said that this mural contains many symbols for a greengrocer, a pedestrian, a driver who expected the traffic lights.

The purpose of this program - said - he is educating through art basically the part eco.

Also, Marcelo Ferder said that this is an artística-pedagógica, experience made with plastic bottles, closures, parts of computers, old phones, CD, slippers, cans, batteries, printers and strainers, among other materials.

"Is not made neither for them nor for me, but by everyone", said referring to u000aparticipating students of the 3.° and 4.° of media

Of the theory to the practice
the city Reciclada in the community educational Lux Mundi began weeks ago with a series of workshops that address the environmental problem in urban areas, and education to adolescents and young people learn to locate and use materials recycled creatively and craft, resulting in the manufacture of various objectsin this case, a collective mural.

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