Upcycling: Re-imagining Our Waste: Upcycled Art
While much of the world may not be at all familiar with the idea of upcycling as a way of life, the artistic community has long been a proponent of "something from nothing." By creating works out of waste artists are showing the beauty that is present in the most mundane of things or one man's trash is another's treasure. Their also saving money on costly supplies. These indivdiual efforts show how we can seperate ourselves from the waste cycle and embrace the now profitable efforts that can exist alongside zero-waste living.
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Upcycling from Trash to Treasure
"Junkyard Art," a two-week adventure in "up-cycling," gave participants a new perspective on trash along with a chance to transform discarded objects into flights of artful fancy. Thus, a...
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Recycled Art Exhibit: Viable Resources
Viable Resources is the title of the art show at the Washington State Convention and Trade Center (Level 2 Galleria) in Seattle, on view now until June 30, 2009. Featuring fifty three pieces of...
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Red Bull Art of Can
Red Bull Art of Can is a national juried exhibition featuring artwork in a variety of media that have one thing in common—they are all inspired by Red Bull or crafted from the iconic blue and...
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Mark Langan - Upcyled Art with Cardboard
Mark Langan is an Ohio artist who has mastered the art of upcycling. For about five years, his focus has been giving used corrugated cardboard a new life as sculpture. His materials are about as simple (and green) as it gets: corrugated boxes,...
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One Man's Trash Becomes Art
Making art out of everyday objects goes back to the 1920s, when Marcel Duchamp turned a urinal upside down, scrawled the letters "R. Mutt" on one side, and titled the thing "Fountain." Duchamp's...
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What follows is an interview by Etsy's Candy Calamity with Autumn Wiggins who is organizing a program in St. L...
This is an interesting collaborative upcycling sculpture project that emerged out of an unusual partnership be...
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I spent a good part of the weekend upcycling some old vinyl records into fresh new beats with the help of my f...
This is pretty amazing upcycled technology if you ask me . . . technology, or art or somewhere in between . . ...
For the past three years, since I first learned about the idea of upcycling, I have come across a lot of upcyc...
The Berkana Institute is right on when it talks about naming (see main article here). I really love the word "...
Sometimes when I'm out and about, all the shop windows seem to be calling my name. Stuff looks so pretty displ...
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An interview with Peg Upmeyer of Arts and Scraps, a 21-year old upcycling organization that uses industrial sc...
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matter! is a contemporary fine art gallery featuring original artworks from over 100 artists using recycled an...
Ever since I dove into this upcycling portal I have been inspired by the junk mail artist, Sandhi Schimmel Gol...
In 2009 Garth Johnson and Rockport Publishers/Quarry Books put out a call to the upcycling and artist communit...
Jason Rogenes - Upcycling Artist in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, USA Jason Rogenes uses mundane packing materials, s...
This great blog is an incredible gold mine (or trash heap) of information about upcycling in its many forms. I...
This is a great website that really embraces the concept of Upcycling - offering a wide variety of hands-on pr...
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