Thank you to our Olympia Dumpster Divers friend Urban Woodswalker for turning us on to Junk Culture and also to Donna McCullough’s Sculptural Dresses Crafted from Vintage Oil Cans which are now at Morpeth Contemporary Gallery Donna McCullough is a recipient … Continue reading →
Ruby Re-Usable made a pilgrimage back to her home state this summer, and while she did not get to check out all of the weird, wonderful, artsy and trashy sites of New Jersey, she did get to briefly visit the … Continue reading →
Last month, our dumpster diving friend in New Jersey, Wanda Wastenot, took us on a tour of thrifts stores, rummage sales, art galleries and public art installations in the Asbury Park area. We bought a full-sized New Jersey state flag … Continue reading →
Artists use all sorts of junk to make art; today Olympia Dumpster Divers salutes those who reuse tires to create sculptures: American artist Chakaia Booker creates wearable sculptures from discarded materials Her current material of choice is rubber tires, which … Continue reading →
It was 1977 and I was in original Fluxus member Geoffrey Hendrick’s Art in the Environment class at Rutgers with Ellen (Hey Viv) Vassar and Anne Paashaus when we created this 8′ x 8′ weaving out of anything but wool. … Continue reading →
