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Ruby Re-Usable in the Volcano

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plastic bag and tape sculpture babies by Diane Kurzyna

Well, Jessica Corey-Butler came by Cast Off Art Studio the other day to chat with Ruby Re-Usable; you can read about it in this week’s Volcano here.

Just a few clarifications: I really do go around with a black garbage bag, begging downtown businesses for bubble wrap. In fact, I am going to OlyBikes today, and often hit up Room 30 and Radiance (best smelling bubble wrap in town!).

But I use shopping bags, not garbage bags, to create the baby dolls. I try to bring my own bags when grocery shopping, but not when shopping in other stores. The result, of course, is that I still manage to accumulate too many plastic bags that need to be re-purposed, re-used, or recycled. My friends also contribute to my plastic bag collection: like the kid who is happy to play with the box that the gift came in, I am thrilled when they present me with intriguingly beautiful bags from foreign countries and big city stores.

Some of my plastic bag babies will be part of High Tech/Low Tech, a NorthWest Designer Craftsman show at South Puget Sound Community College gallery this December. Am waiting to hear about other shows (will keep you posted). Leave No Plastic Behind, a reality-based art experience, will be on exhibit in Portland in November. The Seattle Re-Store Recycled Art and Fashion Show has been rescheduled to April, 2008.

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Ruby Re-Usable in the Volcano — 2 Comments

  1. Also wanted to let my dear gentle readers know that A) I do have a BFA from the University of Washington, where I was in the fiber arts program studying mainly surface design. As Hazel Koenig’s teacher assistant, I taught coiled basketry, amongst other things, but I did not get into other kinds of weaving there. The light up basket described in the Volcano article was made much later; specifically, it was created for the Weaving Washington show at the State Capitol Museum in 1998. B) I really would starve if I depended on my art work and/or my teaching artist gigs to get me through, ’cause both are very unreliable sources of income. Fortunately, Ms. Re-Usable’s husband has steady employment. Well, there is more that I could explain, but you should simply come visit my studio where I can reveal it all! love, etc Ruby

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