Our friend Barbara De Pirro has been busy working on her labor-intensive recycle art installations all over the Pacific Northwest. The amount of plastic bottles, plastic caps, and plastic bags that she crochets, weaves, staples, and strings together to create … Continue reading →
There are two excellent group exhibits here in the Pacific Northwest that showcase art from recycled materials, and both are ending soon: Saving the Environment: Sustainable Art exhibit at the Schack Art Center in Everett (April 23 – May 30, 2015) … Continue reading →
Seattle has a lot of artists who work with recycled materials. One of our all-time favorites, Ross Palmer Beecher, has been making art out of recycled materials since 1980, yet she continues to inspire us with her ingenuity, craftsmanship, and … Continue reading →
Shelton Dumpster Diver Barbara De Pirro creates biomorphic spheres by crocheting repurposed plastic bags, then arranging these pods in intriguing settings that mimic nature in unsettling ways. Her most recent installation, vortex plastica, opens October 9, 2010 at 912 Broadway … Continue reading →
We here at Olympia Dumpster Divers are always happy when art made from throwaway and/or recyclable materials is mentioned in the media in a positive way; we especially like to celebrate recycled art from the Pacific Northwest. So when the … Continue reading →
Regina Hackett at Art To Go got the scoop (but why she titled her post Two Seattle Chandeliers when the artists in question are both from Tacoma makes me want to remind everyone everywhere that Seattle is NOT the only … Continue reading →
Wonderbra by Diane Kurzyna aka Ruby Re-Usable Our ODD recycled art correspondent in Shelton, Barbara De Pirro, got a shout out in the Wall Street Journal in an article about castoff materials being refashioned into trash fashion during this global … Continue reading →
The EnviroHouse in Tacoma is having a recycled art show, now through the summer. The exhibiting artists include my junkaholic friends George Kurzman, Ruby the Resourceress, Barbara De Pirro, Holly Senn and moi, Ms. Ruby Re-Usable. (well, actually, I have … Continue reading →
