Have A Nice Day
Betty B stopped by on Tuesday and decided to take home a plastic bag and tape baby that has a smiley face with “Have a Nice Day” printed in red across the chest. Isn’t that nice? Ruby Re-Usable will have … Continue reading →
Category Archives: tape sculpture
Tape People
Jason “enpen” Taellious has created a slide show for Ruby Re-Usable’s HERE TODAY project, which you can view here. Meet the models for the tape sculptures, and see downtown Olympia through an artist’s eyes; more about HERE TODAY here. Ms … Continue reading →
Summer Reading
Ruby Re-Usable is going to take a little blogging break, but not before she posts about Art on the Ave this past Sunday, and also some of the sites that you should check out at least once this summer. Claudia … Continue reading →
4th of July
This is one of Ruby Re-Usable’s plastic bag and tape sculptures that will debut at Art on the Ave in Tacoma this Sunday; he will be in a wheelchair and the public will be invited to stroll around the event … Continue reading →
Renascence on YouTube
HERE is my first YouTube vid: an installation for Olympia Spring Arts Walk 2007 that was in the window of Archibald Sisters. And no, I did not spell renaissance wrong; the title is Renascence, which means a new birth or … Continue reading →
Art Should Be Shiny
Olympia Dumpster Divers are everywhere! While Ruby Re-Usable is getting ready to debut 3 plastic bag and tape sculptures at Art on the Ave in Tacoma, other ODD-types have been spotted with their recycled wares in Olympia: Pat Tassoni is … Continue reading →
Art of the Written Word
There is lots of recycled art in the Arts Council of Snohomish County Gallery’s latest exhibit: Art of the Written Word, including Ms. Ruby Re-Usable’s plastic bag babies and life-sized plastic wrap and tape sculptures. Read more here. … Continue reading →
Happy Mother’s Day 2007
Have you thanked your mother lately? These babies are all made from used plastic bags that say “thank you,” they are stuffed with bubble wrap that I collect from downtown Olympia businesses, and are held together with tape. Aren’t babies … Continue reading →
Renascence
Renascence means new life and also a cultural revival. Reusing and recycling mundane materials like plastic bags and bubble wrap to create figurative sculptures is an artistic act of rebirth. … Continue reading →
What’s your bag, man?
I incorporate used plastic bags into my art work; I started using Wonderbread bags in 2000, when my then ten year old son demanded the stuff. The Wonderbread bags are quite colorful, very pop art, and Max loved the bread; … Continue reading →