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Bloom with the UNO Art Club

The UNO Art Club, is a creative group focused on preparing for life after college with career development and opportunities, and organizing projects like making paper pulp seed bombs to make a difference in the local environment.

  • published: 2022/04/12
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We can find art in odd places: the smell of grass, a buttefly's wings, the pollen on a friendly bumblebee, or a lone flower growing from the cracks in a sidewalk.

The students in the UNO Art Club want to help us find more.

UNO Art Club hosted a one-day event to create paper pulp seed bombs, outside the Weber Fine Arts Building in the Castle of Perseverance.

Seed bombs (or seed balls) are small clusters of paper pulp packed with native wildflower seeds, designed to bring greenery and colorful pollinator habitats to urban landscapes. Members of the UNO community were invited to create and take their own seed balls to sow new life elsewhere.

Giving native flora like wildflowers a chance to blossom in places where there is nothing creates a chance for bees, butterflies, and lovers of nature to thrive.

When the event finished, the remaining seed paper bombs were gathered together and collected in a place for other students to freely take and spread throughout the community.

Seed paper will also play a role in the Art Ritual to Cleanse Fears, which involves several members of the UNO Art Club.

About the UNO Art Club

The UNO Art Club hosts events to help students reach out to the art community and prepare for when they leave the college setting with events like art talks, demonstrations, gallery work, and other career development opportunities.

Art Club meetings are biweekly on Mondays at 3 PM in WFAB 122 (the printmaking lab). UNO Art Club is open to students of all majors.

For more information, reach out to unoartclub@gmail.com or find them on Instagram.