Heya all you remarkable recyclers and fans of trash art!  IF you are in the Olympia area on Thursday, June 3, please come to the Olympia Timberland Library, where Clarissa Callesen and Ruby Re-Usable will discuss their artistic process in conjunction with the book Who’s Your Dada?  Redefining the Doll through Mixed Media (7:30 – 9 pm, FREE, more info HERE)

3 Repurposed Plastic Bag Babies by Ruby Re-Usable, currently part of the Art From Detritus show at Pure Light Gallery, Turners Falls, MA

But if you are in Seattle on Thursday, June 3, then you should go see our friend Marita Dingus at the Northwest African American Museum (6:30 – 8 pm, FREE, more info HERE).  Also, check out Art Zone with Nancy Guppy: Marita was feature on the  5/21/10 episode HERE

The old adage “˜waste not want not“™ is a mantra for Seattle born artist Marita Dingus. An artist of magnanimous spirit and vision, Ms. Dingus will give a presentation that reflects on her experience as a working artist in the Northwest, and offer insight into her creative process. This Guggenheim Fellow creates imaginative depictions of “˜discarded peoples“™ in glass and fabric mediums. Through her work she explores the travails within the African Diaspora pre and post- enslavement. Her analysis is artistic and offers the hope that a society who sees through its victims will in effect see through itself.  (NWAAM)