September Recycled Art Rabbit
This month’s Recycled Art Rabbit will be built using recycled materials, as well as solar panels and a rain collection system: Macau Pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo … Continue reading →
Recycled Art Chronicles: Rich Art
Dan Schreiber of Centralia’s The Chronicle visited with our favorite visionary artist Richard Tracy, aka Rich Art, recently. Ruby read about it in The Olympian, but Dan also produced a great video of Rich Art that not only follows him … Continue reading →
September Calls for Recycled Art
Ruby has been working on a white trash/repurposed plastic bag dress, trying to get it done for J2F Thankfully, there is still time to enter Portland’s Junk to Funk Recycled Fashion Show Contest; Trashion Edutainment for the Masses deadline is … Continue reading →
Recycled Art Around Puget Sound
Kuros Zahedi by Lele Barnett Ruby Re-Usable will NOT make it up north to see Kerfuffle: The Uneasy Relationship Between Humanity and the Environment at Bumbershoot in Seattle; Michael Upchurch writes “This isn’t agitprop “” this is fun, with a … Continue reading →
Dumpsters As Art
While Olympia Dumpster Divers joined other bloggers to celebrate Decorative Dumpster Day on May 1, we believe that dumpsters should be decorated and celebrated every day. So imagine our joy when Regina at Another Bouncing Ball recently posted about dumpsters … Continue reading →
August Recycled Art Rabbit
Jumping Jack Rabbits, Batman! This month, Ruby’s repurposed bunnies will be in the good company of over 40 other Leporidae-inspired artists at Two Vaults Gallery in Tacoma for Rabbitual, a group show with rabbitude. Opening this Thursday through September 12, … Continue reading →
Recycled Art is Rubbish: Tony Cragg
Some recycled art history: Ruby Re-Usable’s first and only experience with a Tony Cragg piece was at the Portland Art Museum in 2002; made from grey and white bits of plastic stuff (including the lid from a film canister and … Continue reading →
Recycled Art Installation: Fabled Grove
Olympia artist Larissa Podzaline has created a small grove of trees out of recycled books and other repurposed materials for the City of Olympia’s HERE TODAY 2009 temporary art installations. We just love the way she created dogwood flowers out … Continue reading →
Recycled Art Mandalas
Check out the recycled art mandalas by Brad Skubinna now on exhibit at Francine Seders Gallery in Seattle. Plastic junk can be so repulsive and yet so compelling; Skubinna’s careful arrangements remind me yet again how obsessive/compulsive artists that work … Continue reading →
Artistic Reuse Call for Artists
This just popped into our in-box, we have no more info yet, but sounds interesting: Creative Turbine is seeking artists in the Pacific Northwest that are involved with recycling for a documentary about reusing materials in a creative way; more … Continue reading →