Olympia Fall Arts Walk 2008
Well, it was the fall Arts Walk here in Olympia on Friday, and while the rain did not keep everyone away, it sure did put a damper on the fun! Luckily, most of Ruby Re-Usable’s art work was inside: at Cast Off Art Lab, there was the Word Wall, which is an on-going project, as well as a display of the graffiti art ephemera collected by Ruby, Jenny Macc and Jason, AND well-attended spoken word performances by Jason Taellious and Richard Thietje
In the empty store front a few doors down Washington Street, Ruby did a last minute installation of two plastic bag and tape sculptures. Five stories above the store front, in DJ Sixx’s office, Ruby installed a plastic bag and tape sculpture entitled “Rescue Me,” a Rapunzel-like figure with very long hair crocheted out of many yellow plastic bags. Check out Ruby’s set of Fall Arts Walk pics HERE
Up the street, David Scherer was doing his recycled art thing as the official City of Olympia public participation event, inviting the community to glue plastic doo-dads onto big plywood letters spelling out “Arts Walk.” Molly Gilmore wrote about it for The Olympian
The Weekly Volcano’s Alec Clayton gave a shout out to the Olympia Dumpster Divers that were showing their stuff at Olympia Salvage, but Ruby did not make it down there to see it in person (yet). More pics of Arts Walk in the rain HERE and HERE and HERE
David Scherer says “Oy vey, Make Art Not Waste!”
Ruby. Thank you again for having us at the Castoff Art Lab. The time was fun had by all.
my pleasure, hope we can do it again sometime! until then, love, etc Ruby
Hi Ruby, love the pix! Very nice Rapunzel. I think you should try for the artwalk map cover. Already looking forward to the Walk in Spring. I saw your pix on the artyard in Centralia. Definitely have to go there sometime! I just saw a movie I think you’d like called The Gleaners and I. Google it. Anyway, gotta go.
—Matt
Oh yeah, almost forgot. Whoever did the art work with the stick (or comb,etc..)with the tag saying how cool it was and that you really must own it. Those were genius and I wish I bought one. I wish I took a picture of them.
—Matt
hey Matt, thanks for checking out ODD! David Scherer (pictured above) is the genius behind the combs and sticks, I believe you can purchase some of his stuff at Archibald Sisters or by phoning the FLAT-WIN company.
ALSO, thank you for suggesting that my art work should grace the Arts Walk map cover; in fact, it already has! Check it out HERE, it was on the City of Olympia Spring Arts Walk 2004 cover, and the original art work is now part of the City of 0’s portable art collection, on view at the north entrance to the Olympia Community Center, right by the Dale Chihuly (for realz).