Painting for Pines
Event Details
March 16, 2025 @ 2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
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Indiana Bobcats Need Your Voice!
Join us for an evening of Art and Advocacy to raise awareness about issues surrounding Indiana’s bobcats!
Enjoy a fun afternoon of painting and socializing with a guided, step-by-step, painting experience. Instructor, local artist, Alexandria Leitch, has been involved with Black Pine for as long as she can remember. Raising awareness about the animals who call Black Pine home is dear to her heart, and we are beyond grateful to have her leading this experience.
This event will be held at local coffee shop, The Fox Den, on Sunday, March 16 from 2:30 – 4:30pm. Coffee, tea and snacks will be available for purchase.
Cost is $50 and includes:
- 12″ round canvas to paint and take home.
- paints and brushes
- other painting materials (water, towels, pencils)
- step-by-step painting instructions
- Akila cookie!
- water and drip coffee will be available at no cost.
- your advocacy statement to send and SPEAK UP!
- Additional drinks and snacks will be available for purchase.
This is a fun event, and all skills are encouraged to attend.
Why is this event important?
In March of 2024, SB 241 passed directing the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to establish a hunting/trapping season for bobcats.
It is the sad paradox of wildlife conservation that as soon as a species seems to make progress toward recovery from near extirpation, some people rally to be permitted to hunt and trap them again. This is exactly what’s happening in Indiana right now with the state’s only remaining native wildcat, the bobcat.
In 2024, a small but powerful group of recreational fur trappers helped push a bill through the state legislature that forced the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to establish a bobcat-trapping season by July 2025. The DNR proposed that trappers be allowed to kill 250 of them using horrific methods including strangling neck snares and steel-jawed leghold traps, even though these small wildcats are only starting to return to their native habitats in Indiana’s woods.
Let’s send the message that the horrible suffering caused by these trapping methods are cruel and unnecessary! Spending the afternoon with like-minded animal advocates always sounds like a WIN!
