Wildling Museum exhibits animal art at Santa Barbara Zoo

The Wildling Museum of Art and Nature and the Santa Barbara Zoo have collaborated for a special exhibit showing at the zoo, featuring art by students from Solvang School and the Montessori Center School. The show features art inspired by animals, showing at the zoo’s Volentine Family Gallery through Oct. 9.

click to enlarge Wildling Museum exhibits animal art at Santa Barbara Zoo
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Students from Solvang School created a variety of animal art projects throughout the school year, inspired by giraffes, elephants, and others, in preparation for the zoo exhibit. Montessori students focused exclusively on creating origami animals.

“I was really glad to be able to do something to show our love for the animals at the zoo,” a Montessori student said, according to a release from the Wildling Museum.

The student show hangs in conjunction with the Wildling Museum’s current exhibit, Animals A to Z, which currently shows at the museum in Solvang. That exhibit includes a few pieces created by some of the animals from the zoo during art therapy sessions. There’s also video of those sessions playing in the Wildling’s gallery.

“We are so proud of the work of all the students and especially the creativity and initiative of both teachers working with the kids and us in preparing the zoo exhibit,” Wildling Executive Director Stacey Otte-Demangate said in the release. “It’s exciting to think of the amazing exposure their artwork is getting to the thousands of zoo visitors that will go through the gallery this summer.”

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