Arlington Art Truck at the Columbia Pike Blues Festival

Exposing Life Cycles by Zofie King with Michele Montalbano SEE & DO: Contemplate organic waste and how it goes back to the earth. Use the sun to create cyanotypes of organic matter while thinking about life cycles. MEET: Arlington artist Zofie King, Virginia artist Michele Montalbano and a representative from the Solid Waste Bureau who can talk about our food scrap collection program. Zofie’s mixed media work combines cyanotypes and drawings of nature and architecture. (…and she is an avid composter.) Michele is a painter, printmaker, and uses the cyanotype process for camera-less photography. LEARN: About the County’s food scrap collection program using on-street collection locations or your green cart. The food scraps are composted by the county and turned into soil amending compost that is shared with the community. Keep organic waste out of the trash. Vegetables, fruits, peels and rinds, meats (including bones), bread, poultry, etc. — basically anything that we eat, plus things like greasy pizza boxes, soiled napkins, natural corks and even hair and fingernail clippings are all food scraps and can go in the specialized bin. “If it grows, it goes.” Photograph courtesy Zofie King