Ruby Re-Usable is working as an itinerant artist at Loyal Heights Elementary School in Seattle, creating autobiographical recycled art dolls from plastic bottles, old socks, fabric scraps, telephone wire, and whatever else is available (like all that colorful acrylic yarn waiting for a crafts project that never happened). The dolls are on display in the school library, but I was so busy I only took a few pics … next time, I will make sure to snap more, because these students are really creative and some of their ideas are wild, like the fourth graders with four arms, and some of their dolls are just so much fun, especially the wild hairdos!

More art doll links: Dolls Stories blog by Neta in Tel Aviv, Identity Art Dolls lesson plan, cute cork dolls from Japan, Seattle artist Jessica Geiger’s amazing and sometimes disturbing sculptural art dolls, What a Doll exhibit at Central Washington University.