Ruby Re-Usable has reused Wonder Bread bags in her mixed recycled media dolls and sculptures since 2000, when her then ten year old son, who was raised on whole wheat and tofu, demanded red meat and white bread. While her … Continue reading →
We here at Olympia Dumpster Divers have always loved Halloween for the creativity that it brings out in everyone: A steampunk raven for Halloween or any other occasion (via design float blog) Ruby has been learning how to play the … Continue reading →
We here at Olympia Dumpster Divers are excited to introduce another ODD: Amanda Weiss/Three Bad Seeds, who is now sharing Cast Off Art Lab with Ruby Re-Usable. Amanda upcycles old wool sweaters and wool blanket scraps into sweet little stuffies … Continue reading →
Olympia Dumpster Divers Ruby Re-Usable, Second-hand Sid, and Pat Trashoni went on a junk-finding excursion to Bremerton, WA on Wednesday, looking for potential art supplies and stuff at various thrift stores (we particularly love the St Vinnie’s on Callow). We … Continue reading →
The 6th birthday of Olympia Dumpster Divers is this Friday, July 13. We started the blog as a way to tell the story of “Ephemeral Folks,” Ruby Re-Usable’s HERE TODAY temporary art installation project for the City of Olympia in … Continue reading →
Ruby Re-Usable and Lana Landfill (aka Stuart Gullstrand) were part of an outrageous trash fashion event in Seattle: Trash Fashion Futures was a two evening showcase of the very best of the west coast trash fashion movement, where trashionistas were … Continue reading →
Decorative Dumpster Day has been officially celebrated here at Olympia Dumpster Divers since 2009 Since then, we have continued to join with everydaytrash and The Visible Trash Society to salute the artists who turn dumpsters into works of art! Ruby … Continue reading →
Hope you had a happy Earth Day/month! We here at Olympia Dumpster Divers celebrated in a variety of ways: Laura Sharp Wilson presented The Plastic Propaganda Poster Project at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. Bellingham, Washington, hosted the … Continue reading →
Wondering what we here at Olympia Dumpster Divers have been up to? Well, one of the wonderful things we did lately was venture up north to Hutch Studio in La Conner, WA, where we participated in Chris Theiss’ whirligig workshop, … Continue reading →
Last month we told you all about the art heist at Matter Gallery; unfortunately, we have no updates to report as of yet. This month we are posting about Matter Gallery again: forty of Matter’s artists have work in the … Continue reading →
