In this installment of This Re-Usable Life, we go to Australia, where Ruby has never been in person, to discover how the folks down under do recycled art: part one: what can you do with a can? Sir Reginald Junksworth … Continue reading →
Nek Chand – Creative rebel, recycling genius, or just your typical mosaic artist with a touch of OCD? Read more about one of Olympia Dumpster Divers all-time favorite sculptor/doll maker/visionary HERE “Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century” is the … Continue reading →
The Black Front Gallery announces its April group show, which includes Ruby Re-Usable’s most recent plastic bag and tape sculptures: There will also be stencils, wheat paste, and spray painted graffiti on the gallery walls, but those artists wish to … Continue reading →
Ruby Re-Usable presented an environmental education art workshop as part of the Nisqually and South Sound Green Student Congress at The Evergreen State College; The Olympian wrote about this event (alas, no mention of Ruby): Environmental lessons put into practice … Continue reading →
Read about the eight artists, including ODD members Bil Landfill Fleming and George the Junkileptic Kurzman, chosen to do Here Today 2008 temporary art installations in downtown Olympia HERE. Ruby Re-Usable regrets that she is not part of this great … Continue reading →
The Oregonian had a nice write up about Leave No Plastic Behind featuring artist May Johnson; read it HERE The NY Times has a great story about Margaret Wertheim’s hyperbolic crochet coral reef project that uses yarn, thread, plastic bags, … Continue reading →
When Ruby Re-Usable isn’t busy teaching the art of recycling or in the studio doing her upcycled art thing, she is wandering around with the digital camera her generous friend Jan gave her, admiring the non-commissioned public art of Oly … Continue reading →
“Altruism Generator: What Goes Around Comes Around” is a kinetic recycled art installation by Olympia Dumpster Diver Bil Fleming. He worked with a class of 4th and 5th graders from Lincoln School, along with some Evergreen State College students, to … Continue reading →
Don’t Throw This Valentine Away was the title of the pic that was in the Seattle P-I on Valentine’s Day, when our favorite recycled materials artist Marita Dingus showed Donna Amira’s art class at Dunlap Elementary School in south … Continue reading →
Olympia Dumpster Divers doesn’t love trash, we love the creative ways folks have found to reuse trash: Nolasalvage creates heart picture frames and other crafty things out of recycled wood, salvaged metal, mardi gras beads, junk jewelry, buttons, and sometimes … Continue reading →
