Erica Timmerman
Arts Editor

Rubber boots and umbrellas are the recommended apparel for spring’s rainy season, but the Citizens’ Environment Watch hopes to make a splash with a new way of using them.

By using a unique canvas material – rubber boots and umbrellas – artists and celebrities have created original paintings over the outerwear.

Artist, Raymond Schulz has created a collage of nature with bark, pine-cones and an oil painting sunset. The arty boots and others will be auctioned off at the Gladstone Hotel May 1 in an event aptly called the Rubber Boot Ball organized by the CEW.

The profits of the ball will be going towards the education and mentoring of community environment.