Arts education and the importance of recreating through recycling/reusing will be the focus of the AAUW Nevada County Branch’s February 18th meeting.
Guest speaker will be Donna Sangwin, founder and CEO of the non-profit ReCreate, which works with businesses and individuals to divert clean, usable, but unwanted items from landfills.
With these items, ReCreate provides a makerspace, craft thrift shop, and hands-on educational programs, striving to make creative expression accessible to all.
In 2008, Donna founded ReCreate because she saw an opportunity to be a liaison between businesses throwing away very usable “waste” and schools facing budget shortfalls for art and hands-on programs.
ReCreate programs encourage students to reuse and recycle through projects that teach science, technology, engineering, art and math…
