The Japanese American Student Association (JASA) came together to create a community-led 3D art installation that represents the changing growing season of the Sakura, or “cherry blossom. The art installation includes canvases with small clay flowers attached to them that portray the impact of the climate crisis on cherry blossoms and represent growing season data of cherry blossoms. The flowers will be sculpted and baked with polymer clay charms and then glued on to the canvases. JASA, along with other cultural student organizations and community members, will come together to sculpt the flowers. They will use two different colored clay, light and dark pink. The lighter pink flowers will provide a background for the darker pink flowers which will be placed in the shape of Sakura peak growing season graphs. During JASA weekly meetings, students will come together to build Sakura flowers while incorporating discussions surrounding global environmental challenges and processing associated emotions through art. From April 7-20, student project staff will bake and seal all the clay charms and prepare them on the canvases. During Earth Day on April 22nd, the project will be revealed through a celebratory event hosted at the APASA lounge where the canvases will be hung.
