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Recycling Is Reusing

Ruby Re-Usable Posted on March 31, 2016 by RubyApril 22, 2016

words to live by: … Continue reading →

Posted in Reuse, Uncategorized | Tagged art, recycle, reuse | Leave a reply

Upcycled Style Trash Fashion Show at the Schack Art Center

Ruby Re-Usable Posted on May 20, 2015 by RubyMay 25, 2015

We promised you pics from the Upcycled Style Trash Fashion Show at the Schack Art Center in Everett, WA, and we intend to keep our promise! As guest curator/co-producer, Ruby Re-Usable had her hands full and therefore does not have … Continue reading →

Posted in Everett WA, trash fashion, Uncategorized | Tagged "haute trash", art, recycle, recycle art, trash fashion, trashion, unique, upcycle art, WA, Washington | 2 Replies

Art from Rubbish by Michelle Reader

Ruby Re-Usable Posted on November 28, 2014 by RubyNovember 28, 2014

Since 1997, Michelle Reader has been working to make recycled materials into sculptures, often incorporating mechanical elements such as the working parts of toys and clocks. Her materials come from city dumps, roadsides, and thrift shops, and include both household and industrial … Continue reading →

Posted in London, recycled sculpture, rubbish art, sculptors | Tagged art, London, recycle, recycle art, recycled, recycled art, repurpose, reuse, sculpture | 2 Replies

Upcycle Style: Fashionable Fife

Ruby Re-Usable Posted on September 18, 2014 by RubySeptember 19, 2014

The Diva of the Olympia Dumpster Divers, Ruby Re-Usable, and Darcy Anderson (Team Tinkertopia in Tacoma) presented a trash fashion show on 9/13/14, as part of the Valley Ballyhoo Performing Arts Show in Fife, WA.  This was a first time collaboration between Ms … Continue reading →

Posted in environmental education, Tacoma WA, trash fashion, Uncategorized, Washington State | Tagged "haute trash", art, education, fashion, recycle, repurpose, Tinkertopia, trash fashion, trashion, unique, upcycle art, WA | Leave a reply

Oly Arts Walk: recycle art review

Ruby Re-Usable Posted on April 27, 2014 by RubyApril 28, 2014

Well, the weather for the Spring Olympia Arts Walk weekend was cold and damp mixed with rain and a little hail and then some rainbows, the usual Northwest fickle spring … not very conducive for wandering around admiring art.  However, … Continue reading →

Posted in baskets, Earth Day, Olympia Arts Walk, Olympia WA, recycled art shows, recycled artists, Uncategorized | Tagged art, Matter Gallery, Olympia, recycle, repurpose, reuse, trashion, unique, upcycle art, WA, Washington | Leave a reply

Olympia Earth Day Arts Walk

Ruby Re-Usable Posted on April 25, 2014 by RubyApril 25, 2014

Happy Oly Arts Walk!  Olympia Arts Walk brings out the creativity in our citizens, and every year more folks are working with trash/recycled materials to make amazing art.  Here is a preview: Thurston County solid waste educator Carrie Ziegler and … Continue reading →

Posted in Olympia Arts Walk, Olympia WA, re-art installations, recycled art ed, recycled art shows, Uncategorized | Tagged art, Olympia, plastic bags, recycle, recycle art, recycled art, repurpose, reuse, unique, Washington | Leave a reply

Curbside Object Status Tags

Ruby Re-Usable Posted on March 5, 2014 by RubyJuly 23, 2015

We here at Olympia Dumpster Divers love to receive mail*, especially packages via the USPS (FedEx and UPS do not deliver to us).  So we were thrilled when we received a special package from our new friend in trash, Sarah … Continue reading →

Posted in Curbside Object Status Tags, trash stories, Uncategorized | Tagged Curbside Object Status Tags, free pile, recycle, reuse, trash stories | Leave a reply

Have a Trash-free New Year

Ruby Re-Usable Posted on December 31, 2013 by RubyJanuary 1, 2014

Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot, and old lang syne? Still our favorite art from recycled materials blog: Art for Housewives And still our favorite trash blog: everydaytrash More Favorites: Lady … Continue reading →

Posted in holidays, New Year, recycled art, recycled artists, Uncategorized | Tagged art, recycle, recycle art, recycled, recycled art, reuse, trash-free holidays | Leave a reply

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair

Ruby Re-Usable Posted on June 18, 2013 by RubyJune 19, 2013

Ruby Re-Usable has been reusing plastic bags in her art work since 1999 (Wonder Bread bags since 2000).  In 2004 she was commissioned by the City of Olympia to create a piece of art that would be used as the … Continue reading →

Posted in art dolls, eco-issues, folk art, Olympia Arts Walk, Olympia WA, plastic bag art, Uncategorized | Tagged art, art dolls, Olympia, plastic, plastic bags, protest art, recycle, recycle art, recycled, recycled art, repurpose, reuse, upcycle art, WA, Washington, Wonder Bread | Leave a reply

Mavericks with Magnificent Marita

Ruby Re-Usable Posted on May 24, 2013 by RubyMay 24, 2013

Marita Dingus and Ruby Re-Usable worked with all of the 7th graders  at McClure Middle School in Seattle for 3 days (5/15 – 5/17/2013) to create “mavericks” (the school mascot) out of discarded plastic stuff which they attached with telephone … Continue reading →

Posted in Marita Dingus, plastic, recycled art ed, Seattle, Uncategorized | Tagged art, art in the schools, education, environmental education, Marita Dingus, plastic, recycle, recycle art, recycled, recycled art, reuse, Seattle, WA, Washington | 2 Replies

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