We met Jane Kim years ago when she painting the migration of California Long Horn Sheep us the coast using sides of barns and motels as her canvases. Her compassion and extraordinary talent has promoted so many of us to become activists on behalf of the natural world and its creatures that are disappearing. Her and her company InkDwell are calling us to raise awareness about the Monarch Butterfly’s plight Next week they are starting their third Monarch Migrating Mural, this one in Orlando, Florida. The installation is part of Ink Dwell’s multi-year Migrating Mural campaign, a network of public art installations celebrating the monarch along its migration route from Canada to Mexico. Historically, more than one billion monarchs could be found at their wintering grounds in central Mexico, but over the last two decades their population has dropped by more than 80 percent.
Her second installation, Milkweed Galaxy, was painted in January 2018, in Winter Park, Florida at Full Sail University, in partnership with The Nature Conservancy, Florida. Monarchs only lay their eggs on milkweed and this mural serves as a reminder that these microhabitats—so easy for us humans to overlook—are magical worlds in themselves.
Read what the National Geographic has to say about this heroine! https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2017/11/28/large-scale-art-makes-tiny-creatures-impossible-to-ignore/?utm_source=INK-DWELL&utm_campaign=19f8d5f60e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_20&