The Earth Day Community Art Studio kicked off spring with a fashion show and fund-raiser on March 15 that drew 50 attendees to the artcenter Traverse City. Last weekend, the quest to create the parade, scheduled for April 26, welcomed the public to the first of a series of weekend workshops, also at the artcenter Traverse City facility on Elmwood Street. Here Gabi Whaley, 11, marches down the catwalk as a bee during the fashion show. / Special to the Record-Eagle/Carol South