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Recycled art will take center stage for Earth Day event

Artist Heather Fortin Rubald calls it kismet.

An exhibit she created with artist Kathryn Vinson depicting sea life out of recycled goods — and its message about the amount of waste we create — will wrap up five days before Earth Day.

So, the duo will hold an Earth Day celebration on Saturday (April 17), complete with a contest for residents who want to tr y their hands at making recycled art and a trash fashion show.

“It aligns so much with what I’ve been doing,” said For tin Rubald, who has spent a decade creating art and goods out of postconsumer waste, spreading a message of reducing packaging and reusing what we can, alongside of her creations.

Four th Street Aquarium has been on display through storefront windows at 126 W. Four th St. for the past month. The exhibit will culminate with the Earth Day celebration on its last day on display.

Loveland resident Gigi Deal, also an

PHOTOS BY JENNY SPARKS / Loveland Reporter-herald Loveland artist Gigi Deal, right, uses her daughter, Krysta Ford as a model while creating a headpiece Friday for the “Mermaid Queen of Trash Island” she is creating out of trash in the gallery at Artspace in downtown Loveland. Deal, an artist who makes goods out of recyclables, is one of the contestants who signed up for a trash fashion show that will be held on Saturday as part of an Earth Day celebration at the Fourth Street Aquarium, closing the exhibit.

Loveland artist Gigi Deal, right, checks to see how an old piece of a clock works as a chest-piece on her daughter, Krysta Ford, while working on the “Mermaid Queen of Trash Island” for the Fourth Street Aquarium’s Earth Day event.