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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">February 12, 2020 Teresa Izzo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"> 508-896-3867 ext. 137<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><a href="mailto:tizzo@ccmnh.org"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">tizzo@ccmnh.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"></span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History and
Sustainable Practices<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Host an Opening Reception for
<i><span style="color:black">Beach Trash</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">By artist Suzanna Nickerson</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#262626">BREWSTER, MA</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#262626"> —</span>
<span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History and Sustainable Practices will host an opening reception with artist Suzanna Nickerson for her exhibit</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">“Beach Trash” in the Museum’s Naturescape Gallery Friday, March 13, 2020 from<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">We invite the Cape community to a wine and cheese<span style="color:black"> reception with the artist sponsored by Sustainable Practices.
The event will offer the opportunity for community members to meet and engage on our common responsibility of environmental protection. A silent auction and informal discussion with local environmental experts will be featured. A list of experts in attendance
will be announced by March 1 on Sustainable Practices’ website.</span></span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">Suzanna grew up in Chatham in an artistic family with little formal training and describes her artwork as “primitive”. As an
environmental advocate, she is passionate about protecting the natural beauty of the Cape and has devoted her artistic expression to beach trash art as a means to increase the understanding of the adverse human impact of plastic use on the Cape.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">Sustainable Practices is a Cape-wide environmental advocacy nonprofit organization. For more information on Sustainable Practices
see </span><a href="https://sustainablepracticesltd.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">https://sustainablepracticesltd.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">.
</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#262626">For more information please contact
</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Madhavi Venkatesan, PhD at 917-496-0440 or by email<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Teresa Izzo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Program Coordinator/Publicist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Cape Cod Museum of Natural History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">869 Main Street/Route 6A<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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