b'to raise awareness of trash issues locally and globally and CRCs work on trash solutions. We look forward to future collaborations. Gina Hall, SCMAs educator for school and familyprograms, coordinated a major collaborative effort in conjunction with the exhibition by initiating a school partnership program with Enchanted Circle Theater (ECT), an educational theater company based in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Partner schools included the Campus School of Smith College and Holyoke STEM Academy (HSA), with approximately 160 students participating across both schools. Second and fourth graders from the Campus School and sixth graders from HSA visited the exhibition and engaged with other resources on campus, including the botanic garden and the Center for Design and Fabrication. Resident teaching artists from ECT worked with the students back in their classrooms to develop creative above:Maggie Newey, associate director for academic programs responses to the exhibition. At HSA, students created and public education, and family enjoying Plastic Entanglements on Free Community Day 2019 public service announcements about plastic in the form through campus. A group of 110 intergenerationalof videos, podcasts, raps and posters. The Campus participants (including Smith students, local commu- School students developed a performance that wove 17nity groups and families) came together to kick off thetogether music, movement and words in an emotional museums Free Community Day on April 6 with this trashcall to action to fight plastic pollution that was p esented collection event. This partnership led to further collab- at a full-school assembly. Excerpts of these final p ojectsoration with the CRC to present a lecture on April 25 bywere also shared at the museums Free Community Giuliana Torta, counsellor for environment, fisheries an Day on April 6. (Gina Halls related Staff Perspective ocean policies at the EU Delegation to the U.S, titledappears on page 20.)Reducing Our Footprint: Experiences from the Europe-an Union. Additionally, the CRC convened a meetingPlastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials was organized by the Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State, and curated by Joyce Robinson, between Torta and a group of local legislators, which thecurator, with guest co-curators Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Penn Statemuseum hosted. Reflecting on our work togethe, Staceyprofessor of womens, gender and sexuality studies and English, and Heather Davis, assistant professor of culture and media, The New School. Lennard, events and special projects coordinator at theSCMAs presentation was led by Emma Chubb, Charlotte Feng Ford 83 CRC, noted: Curator of Contemporary Art. This exhibition and related programs at SCMA were made possible by Any time we collaborate with another organizationthe support of the Suzannah J. Fabing Programs Fund; the Carlyn Steiner it multiplies our impact and our reach. Being67 and George Steiner Endowed Fund, in honor of Joan Smith Koch; the Judith Plesser Targan, class of 1953, and the Enid Silver Winslow, class of invited to participate in the exhibition was a1954, Art Museum Funds; and the Tryon Associates.catalyst that led us to bring Giuliana to Hartford, Connecticut, and Smith College. It afforded a hugeProgram partners for Plastic Entanglements included The Bagshare Project, Campus School of Smith College, Center for EcoTechnology, the opportunity for something much bigger than weCenter for Environment, Ecological Design & Sustainability (CEEDS) at would have had the capacity to do on our own.Smith College, Connecticut River Conservancy, Enchanted Circle Theater, Were thankful to SCMA for this opportunityHolyoke STEM Academy, and Smiths Office of Student Engagement'