On April 21, 2013 the MY HERO Gallery created a mural, Be a Hero Keep Our Oceans Clean & Safe! with the help of families visiting the boardwalk on Balboa Peninsula. MY HERO partnered with the Explorocean Museum for this fun, Sunday afternoon environmental art project as part of the Imagination Celebration in Newport Beach, California.
MY HERO was invited to be a partner in Laguna Art Museum's First Art & Nature Festival on November 10, 2013. The MY HERO Gallery conducted a RECYCLED SHOREBIRDS art project in conjunction with honoring the Birdmaker of Senegal, Mamadou Tall Diedhou and his recycled birds that are documented on the MY HERO website in a film by Cheik Seck. The table was brimming over all afternoon with enthusiastic children and their parents creating imaginative artful birds from recycled paper, wood, yarn, chopsticks, shells and other donated materials.
The Gallery also presented a workshop at the Laguna Beach Boys and Girls Club in conjunction with the Laguna Hero Fest. Children from the third to sixth grades selected a personal hero and then illustrated that hero using paint, colored pencils, collage materials, and photographs. These young artists and their artworks were celebrated at the Laguna Hero Fest at [seven-degrees].
