Seattle artist Patti Shaw has been making and exhibiting her art quilts since 1999, but it was the Seattle RE Store’s 5th Annual Recycled Art Show that inspired her to create art from recycled materials, specifically the leftover votive candle … Continue reading →
More recycled tin art: Loran Scruggs at the Northwind Arts Center in Port Townsend, WA Pollinator by Loran Scruggs … Continue reading →
Well, we missed seeing our friend Jenny Fillius‘ recycled tin artwork at Zeitgeist in Seattle last month, but we did enjoy the video Elephant in the Room by Jenny Fillius We have another chance this month to see her work: … Continue reading →
chandelier by Russ Morgan in the window of the Hotel Monaco The Kimpton Hotel chain was seeking 3 Seattle artists interested in going through their replaced shower-heads, doorknobs, broken lamps, and other recyclables to incorporate into art works for Earth … Continue reading →
Okay, Steve Jensen is not usually on the list of artists in Seattle who work with recycled materials — he prefers naturally felled wood — but he was on the jury with Ruby for the Seattle RE Store’s Recycled Art … Continue reading →
cocktail dress made of fruitcake, shortbread, and tea tins: Move, Shift by Jane Grafton of Tinker’s Damn Maybe its all the RuPaul’s Drag Race and the fabulous and opinionated Tom and Lorenzo we have been indulging in lately, but we … Continue reading →
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ Please don’t refuse to be our Valentine ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ …… ♥ here is our recycled heart art Valentine for you ♥: recycled art heart by Stuart Gullstrand … 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 →
artist Ruby Re-Usable and gallery owner Jo Gallaugher at Matter Check it out: Matter Gallery owner Jo Gallaugher and artists Bil Fleming, George Kurzman, Pat Tassoni and Ruby Re-Usable talk about their recycle art with Ed Muir on Northwest Postcard … Continue reading →
We here at Olympia Dumpster Divers would like to wish everyone a Trash Free New Year while sharing some of our favorite trash blogs: That trashy Little Shiva got 86’d at the Centre Pompidou for wearing this dress and mask … Continue reading →
