Recycled Art & Artists

Local recycling artists./ artists recycling.. Jude Mowris (Straw Mountain Studio - altered couture, paper, you name it - whatever catches her magpie eye),

Jude's recycled & wearable art
Straw Mountain Studio

Wana Beth Fox (clothing, scrap wood, bottles, old tools, dishware), Susan Aulde (Cibola, recycled glass art) and Maureen Hamilton (Jackass Junction - furniture, clothing & more) come immediately to mind, although I know there are others.

Jackass Junction's freehand decorative painting:
a new lease on life for old furniture and cabinets

Counting partial recycling, add Addie Draper (texture additions to gesso), Doris Burton and Ruth Ballen (fiber art creations).

by Ruth Ballen, aka The Wayward Elf

Count in local ATC artists too, as most use recycled materials for cards and to decorate them.

Stonehouse's Casita on Limit

In a separate category but still recycling and most definitely art, Kristine Lauritsen (Stonehouse Gallery and B&B) recycles not just scraps of this and that but entire houses - using recycled materials all the way through from basic refitting to decor and finishing touches...

And before any of them... Gordon McMath's "critters," welded sculptures created from old farm tools and equipment - scrap metal parts from all those things that break down on every farm and found in the scrap pille.

Indeed, found art, if not exactly recycled art, is related. The distinction, I think but should check with a "found art" expert like Tomás Wolff to make sure I get it straight, may depend on whether the artist changes the material or incorporates it as is into a sculpture, mosaic, installation, etc.

The list just keeps growing .... especially considering inevitable oversights and omissions. Why couldn't Creative recycling, along with collectibles, could become our niche. Trash to treasure in Mountainair, junk capital of NM, has a ring to it, doesn't it? A tour centered around recycled art / crafts.

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Try your own hand at a recycled art project -

• Recycling Crafts for Kids: Art on a Shoestring
• Recycle it! Craft projects & useful things
• Crafts from Recycled Stuff
• The Imagination Factory
• Waste-Free Lunches: Recycled Art Projects

Recycled art projects made from aluminum cans at http://www.aluminouspublishing.com. E-book, Crafting Aluminum Art

• Artists Helping Children Foundation - Recycled Art
• Recycled Paper Crafts
• Recycled art projects
• MAKE: Blog: Recycled Craft Projects
• Recycling Crafts : Home & Garden Television
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Theme Page

Here are a number of links to Internet sites which contain information and/or other links related to the specific theme of Recycling.

• The Recycled Art Project (Emory University)

The ever-increasing demand for energy and resources and an ever-decreasing amount of those resources has generated an issue that needs our attention and action. Emory Recycles promotes awareness and dialogue about the issues facing our environment through the creative expression of making art out of the things discarded

• Bottle Cap Art
• ArtBuzz: bottle cap mosaic
• Unsealed, the art of the bottle cap - The Outsider Art Pages
• Bottle Cap Art Shed

Another Bottlecap Art page: urban homage to the ingenuity of Southern and Southwestern folk art, bottlecap figures and snakes

The list of potential links goes on...Glass art, like altered couture/ embellished clothing, is another HUGE category. Maybe for another time.