Nek Chand – Creative rebel, recycling genius, or just your typical mosaic artist with a touch of OCD? Read more about one of Olympia Dumpster Divers all-time favorite sculptor/doll maker/visionary HERE “Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century” is the … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
Are you listening? Olympia Dumpster Divers digs all things recycled, reused, repurposed and salvaged from the scrap heaps, rescued from the rubbish bin, or otherwise reclaimed and refashioned. All you dumpster divers, eco-warriors, sustainability soul-searching citizens, and the rest of … Continue reading →
The night before Hanukkah rain storm/flood here in the Pacific Northwest has left Ruby Re-Usable wishing she were a duck … of course, she IS the main mallard organizing the 5th annual Duck the Malls (along with OFS live events … Continue reading →
Dumpster Diving Diva Diane Kurzyna just finished a two week gig as an artist-in-residence at Daffodil Valley Elementary School in Sumner, WA, where she worked with five 3rd and 4th grade classes, creating biographical/autobiographical figurines out of recycled materials. This … Continue reading →
Its great to get paid to have fun, and these past two workshops I did at Whirligig really were fun. I am so impressed by all of the innovative candy wrapper creations that the participants produced, including the very orange … Continue reading →
We had so much fun making Sweet Wishes fairies out of candy wrappers and other junk that we are going to do it again: Sunday, November 11, 1 pm – 3 pm, at Whirligig (gogreen@thewhirligig.net, 314 Capitol Way N, Olympia, … Continue reading →
Make Art: Olympia Dumpster Diver Bil Landfill Fleming‘s recycled art installation at the Capitol Theater continues to get noticed; Alec Clayton reviews it in the Volcano HERE. Learn how to transform candy wrappers into Sweet Wishes fairies with ODD Diva … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
Ruby Re-Usable retrieved her four plastic wrap and tape sculptures from the Snohomish County Arts Council Gallery in Everett on Thursday, and also went to see the Simply Recycling Art Show at the Arts of Snohomish Gallery in Snohomish. Confused? … Continue reading →
