June 10th, 2011 
Recently, my friend Michael Barton went to check out the Washed Ashore Exhibit, currently at Portland Community College, and was gracious enough to share some his images of it on flickr for us! It is all made from washed up beach debris and arranged to create stories of how plastic and trash in the ocean affects sea life. He also pointed me to this great video of the exhibit which does a great job of describing the scale of it. You can follow the exhibit on twitter @WashedAshoreArt.
For anyone in the Bay Area, I just got an email saying that this exhibit will be opening at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito on June 25.