Last Saturday, artist Zhonghe (Elena) Li unveiled her “The Dragon that Inhabits the Charles River,” a 9-meter-long paper cut dragon at Mass Audubon’s nature center. The artwork is in the shape of the lower Charles river and includes people and and living things in and along the river. For more info and better images go here or here.
In ancient Chinese mythology dragons inhabit major rivers. According to Li’s website, they also symbolize water, weather and the power of the Tao (nature). This hand-cut artwork was mostly funded by a grant from Cambridge Arts and supported by Mass Audubon, the Mass Cultural Council and the Foundry.
Tomorrow is the last day of the season for the Nature Center. However, Mass Audubon has MANY programs planned through the spring, including: bird watching, preschool nature detectives, wildlife tracking and tree ID. And when snow falls, they’ll be adding programs: snowshoeing, wildlife tracking and snow shelter building. Check here or here for listings.
Many thanks to the this year’s Powder Magazine Nature Center Site Manager Mateo Schwartz-Torres, to Mass Audubon’s Cambridge Community Education Coordinator Paul Kelley, and to all the naturalists.
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