8th Grade Zero Waste Initiative.

RAM’s Zero Waste Initiative explores the connection between creativity, sustainability, and environmental responsibility through the lens of art. Through exhibitions, education programs, and hands-on making, RAM invites students and communities to reconsider their relationship with materials, consumption, and the natural world while highlighting how artists transform discarded materials into meaningful expressions of innovation, storytelling, and care.

A key component of the initiative engages Racine Unified School District eighth-grade art students in exploring sustainability, waste, and material consumption. Students examine works from RAM’s collection and global artists before creating collaborative and individual upcycled artworks. Through this process, they discover how artists use materials, aesthetics, and storytelling to address environmental, social, and economic issues while reimagining waste as a source of creativity and possibility.

To schedule a program, please contact RAM School and Family Programs Coordinator Veronica Averkamp at 262.636.9344 or vaverkamp@ramart.org.