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 →
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 →
The otherworldly art of Aurora Robson: Aurora Robson: The Great Indoors At Rice University Art Gallery, New York artist Aurora Robson recycles 15,000 plastic bottles into one spectacular, room-sized work of art called The Great Indoors. Visitors enter the gallery through … Continue reading →
Sometimes we here at Olympia Dumpster Divers are suckers for the kitschy, arts & craftsy stuff, especially around Halloween. These skeletons made from reused plastic jugs are just that kind of fun holiday decoration that we get a kick out … Continue reading →
This yiddishe mamele is Portrait of the Artist as a Jewish Mother by Ruby Re-Usable, made out of reused materials, including a plastic dishwashing detergent bottle (Planet brand), a spray paint cap, plastic forks, straws, plastic bag for a … Continue reading →
Happy Year of the (recycled art) Rabbit! Furry Rabbit fur coat recycling in Berlin, pic by neozoon PET bottle bunny in Sydney,pic by dryasadingo for some reason we posted a year’s worth of recycled art rabbits during the year of … Continue reading →
Christmas tree made from plastic bottles (photo borrowed from creativityrecycled, more info HERE) Our friend Urban Woodswalker sent us this pic of a colorful tree made from plastic bottles, which inspired Olympia Dumpster Divers to search for more examples … Continue reading →
Our friend Marita was all excited about the big bottle man at the Seattle Art Museum, and so yesterday Ruby went to SAM to see for herself what Marita was raving about: Jerry Pethick’s Le Semeur/Sunlight and Flies, 1984/2002 is … Continue reading →
Big Rabbits made from recycled plastic bottles by Cracking Art Group: six international artists that intend to change art history through both a strong social and environmental commitment and the revolutionary and innovative use of different plastic materials that evoke … Continue reading →
We stole recycled the title of this post from Regina Hackett, who blogged about plastic bags in art on Art to Go; we were so disappointed that RH did not mention Ruby Re-Usable’s plastic bag sculptures (sigh). Ruby will debut … Continue reading →
