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#CHANGE is on winter break in York, PA

2/12/2016

Photo credit : Randy Flaum

Featured in Annual Report from Keep America Beautiful!

11/9/2015

Great website showcasing Litter Letters in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

11/4/2015

Click on image for direct link. http://www.rethinklitter.org

Phoenix Litter Letters featured on cover of Natural Awakenings

4/2/2015

The Tennessee Litter Letters have a new location...

3/18/2015

The Litter Letters made last year by Pigeon Forge High School students and Keep Sevier Beautiful have moved to their new location. The 6ft tall WHY letters are on display now at Ripleys Aquarium of the Smokies in Gatlinburg and will stay there through Earth Day.

Mardi Gras Litter Letters in Lafayette Louisiana

3/18/2015

Project Frontyard partnered again with ULL student and blacksmith Sam Riehl to create a letter Y to sit in between the new concrete letters on display at Parc Sans Souci in downtown Lafayette. The Litter Letter 'Y' was used as a container to collect unwanted Mardi Gras beads during the recent carnival season. 2,940 lbs of beads were then collected, donated and recycled through LARC.

The numbers speak for themselves...

11/10/2014

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First ever Litter Letter #Hashtag

10/26/2014

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Sam Riehl, Ben Magellon and Nick Arcuri who are all students at University of Louisiana, Lafayette created this 8 foot tall Litter Letter hashtag for Project Frontyard's Big Event yesterday. New Lafayette web page with more details coming soon...

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The Litter Letter Project is now on Instagram

9/23/2014

The project is now on Instagram. Please follow and use the hashtag #thelitterletterproject when sharing any images of the project. Thanks and see you online ;)

June 2014, York Pennsylvania

7/14/2014

Thank you to the Cultural Alliance of York County for inviting me to speak at the first Impact Arts and Cultural Conference at York College. I was so honored to visit your city, meet you all and to see the brilliant CHANGE litter letters up close.

Question Mark made for Keynote Address, Impact Arts & Culture Conference. Built by Working Class York, wrapped by the public and filled by Troy Patterson.

Meeting Mayor C.Kim Bracy, City of York, PA

Kelley Gibson, Cultural Alliance of York County dedicating the letters to the city of York. June 26, 2014

Meeting Patrick Sells, one of the talented artists of Working Class who built the litter letters in York, PA

For more information visit http://culturalalliance-york.org/impactartsconference-litterletterprojectpa

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I initially created the Litter Letter Project for my MFA thesis at Vermont College of Fine Arts as my main focus and research centered around using graphic design as a tool for behavioral change. What began as a local collaboration with a small group of people developed into reality thanks to the funding and support from Keep Louisiana Beautiful. This website serves to document the project and its growth as it developed across multiple states in the USA and now all over the world. It has been a wonderful journey so far working with many great people as they create their own versions of this idea to address the issue in their communities.

Reach out to me anytime if you would like to know more about the project and for permission to make your own version in your community. There is no fee to adopt the idea or ever will be...but please share any and all use of this idea with me. All authorized versions of the project will be featured on this website, facebook instagram and twitter.

Thanks,
Rachael Hatley, MFA
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