Mural Artist Volunteers
Mural artists needed to
help the Andean Bear Project educate local communities about the bears,
the importance of conserving them, and their role in the ecosystem.
Painting murals is an effective way to get the message across
in rural areas with limited access to education. As a
volunteer artist, you can use your talent to make a lasting impact in
the area and encourage local people to help save the bears from
extinction.
Your murals will
reinforce the messages given by our environmental education
work. Wall paintings on
community buildings also help raise the profile of the Andean Bear
Project
and help local farmers to understand how our research relates to them
and their conflict with the bears (which sometimes eat maize or attack
cattle).
Volunteer artists don't
need any formal qualifications, just genuine artistic talent.
Andean or spectacled bears are the last of the short-faced
bears and seem to be especially difficult to draw or paint.
We ask mural
artist
volunteers for a minimum one-week commitment, as the area is remote and
travel takes some time. If you wish to stay and paint murals
for longer, there is no shortage of small rural communities in bear
country. You will probably be based with a local family and
supervised by our rural
environmental education coordinator, Andres
Laguna.
For more information
about
volunteering as a mural artist with the Andean Bear
Conservation Project, download the Mural
Artist Volunteer Information Pack
PDF.
