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Great Outdoors Day, August 2000

Over 500 people joined us on Saturday, August 26th to interpret the wonders of Upper Newport Bay through a variety of hands-on activities at "Creation Stations" along Back Bay Drive and to see popular artists from Laguna Beach Plein Air Artists take part in an extraordinary "Paint Out". The works the artists created during the day will become live and silent auction items for the "Open to Interpretation" fundraiser scheduled for October 12 at the new Peter and Mary Muth Interpretive Center.


At the Clay Sculpture station children learned about life in the mud here at the Bay as they sculpted various creatures.		Full-size image
At the Mural Creation station children worked together under the guidance of a famous muralist to create a giant mural.		Full-size image
At the Mixed Media station children used tempera paints, watercolors and crayons to produce their own pictures of the Bay.		Full-size image
At the Create Your Own Bird station children combined various arts and crafts supplies to make different birds seen at the Bay.		Full-size image
At the Gyotaku station children experienced the ancient Japanese "fish print" art using rubber fish and tempera paints.		Full-size image
At various spots Plein Air artists could be seen at work creating their interpretations of the Bay.		Full-size image

Laguna Soup company offered a wide variety of unique cold specialty items for lunch. They will donate 15% of the proceeds to the Newport Bay Naturalists and Friends.
Many thanks to all those who helped make this another successful event at the Bay.
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