Nearly 450 attendees of Salmonfest Music Fesitval attendees celebrated with an aerial group photo in the rodeo arena at the Kenai peninsula fairgrounds in Ninilchick. They laid a 50 foot wide fabric formation around a central design of salmon leaping through a giant drop of water which was created using long stretches of cut recycled fabric. “Our message is that we love wild Alaska salmon, the water they thrive in, and the fisheries we depend on,” says Mavis Muller, lead artist for the human mosaic installation,” the result is a picture of salmon solidarity as we set out to protect what we love.”
Carly Wier, Executive Director of Cook Inletkeeper and major partner in Salmonfest, cheered on the art installations from her outreach in the education vendors booths inside the festival. ” When it comes to our fight for salmon habitat protection, we are up against the wealthiest corporations on the planet. We will never have their money, but our currency is creative, and it reaches people in deeper ways than money and advertising ever will.”
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