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during the holocaust. Schrier heard of the school project and utilized the five tons of the aluminum tabs collected by the students to create an art installation. Working under
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with an installation of millions of soda-can tabs, collected by school-children, fashioned into an enormous pair of butterfly wings. The artist often uses educational workshops and volunteers in building his large-scale assemblage works.
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Schrier's mass community works that address social and environmental issues continue to attract government and private foundation grant awards. Support for such works have come from the
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