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"Birds on a Wire" artist Bridget Benton
$50.00
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About the artist: Bridget Benton is a mixed media artist living and working in Portland, OR. Bridget was first inspired to make art out of trash after participating in the International Plastic Quilt Project with Create Plenty several years ago. Since then, she has gone on to make more fused plastic quilt squares as well as chandeliers and other more sculptural work incorporating plastic bottle caps. A passionate teacher of creative thinking and intuitive art techniques, she is also the author of the soon-to-be-released book The CreativeConversation: Artmaking as Playful Prayer, based on her workshops developing personal creativity as part of a spiritual practice. Her collage, assemblage and encaustic work has been featured in galleries across the Pacific Northwest. For more information about Bridget, visit her website www.eyesaflame.com.
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"Blue Moon" artist Catherine Haley Epstein
$325.00
About the artist: Catherine Haley Epstein is a full time artist, curator and mother of three children who lives in Southwest Washington. She has been a student of the arts for over 15 years, most recently participating in workshops in Montespertoli, Italy, and in San Francisco and Santa Ana, California with South African mentors Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky. Catherine was in an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands from 2005-2008, and a resident at Vermont Studio Center in 2010. Catherine works with the Right Brain Initiative in Portland, and has done work with the San Francisco and Sacramento public schools initiatives to incorporate art in the classrooms. She has been an advocate for arts in schools for over ten years. She continues to collaborate and curate with local and international artists in traditional and non-traditional venues. Her projects may be found at www.mindmarrow.com. If it were not for this project, I would not have collected plastics for over two weeks, and realized just how much we are surrounded by the wasteful and ever/always plastic. I have always recycled, but somehow collecting the plastic in my studio versus the recycle bin made the connection with plastic far more intimate. I intend on doing this exercise with my children and their classrooms as the opportunities arise. And as always, will look for all ways to avoid the consumption of these plastics. Many thanks to your organization for facilitating this awareness - it's vital.
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"Homage to Grandmothers" artist Sarah Nell Morgan
$25.00
About the artist: I have been working with materials from SCRAP (a creative reuse nonprofit and store in Portland, OR) since it opened fourteen or fifteen years ago. I have shopped, volunteered, and taken students on field trips. Reuse has been my passion both for the waste reduction and the way the materials inspire creativity. I try to make work, whether fiber arts, book arts, or printmaking, from materials from SCRAP. I started out making examples for students and the store. Now I love finding interesting materials and enjoy the creative challenge of working with them. Last summer, I bought a bag of plastic twine and have been thinking about how to use it. I love the bold, primary colors. It crochets up into a nice texture that is both soft and strong. Years ago I was a weaver and basket maker and I am enjoying revisiting fiber arts processes. My grandmother crocheted blankets. Fiber arts have been handed down to us from creative women throughout American history.
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"Natural Circles" artist Ellen Miffitt
$35.00
About the artist: In today’s era of heightened environmental awareness, artists are increasingly turning to junk stores, trash bins and surplus outlets to satisfy their urge to create. Every time I go to place something into my trash bag, I take a second look and ask myself how can I use that creatively in a collage? What most people would causally toss, I select for potential inclusion. It can be anything from jar lids, coffee filters, onion skin, onion bags, broken toys, split open tubes of dried paint, paper doilies, broken costume jewelry... The challenge for me is taking things that are destined for the landfill and integrating them into my art. The use of everyday objects in art can be traced to American folk art in the 19th and 20th centuries; to the Dada movement in Zurich, Barcelona and New York in the 1910s and early 1920s; and most recently to the work of Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, John Chamberlain and Louise Nevelson, among others. Creative recycling into artwork shows my green side and my effort in caring for the planet. I reuse my sumi-e practice papers by staining them or turn scrap paper into “new” handmade paper; save bits and pieces of miscellaneous junk; and the resulting collages reflect the Zen concepts of harmony and balance that I strive to exemplify. Find out more about Ellen and Nine Lives Studio at www.nine-lives-studio.com.
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"Nemo" artist Guadalupe Loria Cruz
$35.00
About the artist: Lupita is a member of artist Sergio Pech Cetz's program offering art and painting classes for older adults in Merida, Mexico. Her class participated in Create Plenty's International Plastic Quilt Project in 2010, where they learned about the harmful effects of single-use plastics in the environment, as well as creative techniques to combine discarded plastic trash with canvas and paint.
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"Plastic Collage" artists Keri Piehl & friends
$35.00
About the artists: Keri Piehl, education coordinator from SCRAP and students at The Living School ages 9, 10, and 11: Antonia Beil, A’Shawnte Campbell, Nyah Correa, Owen Covington, Ethan Cusick, Eve Duncan, Samiya El-Amin, Malachi Fitz, Joey Godic, Corey Graves, Maeve Harris, Sophia Lynsky, Esther Mann, Cole Menton, Evan Nelson, Miette Payzant-Martin, PK Trevillyar, Samara Walker, Trey Wax, Ashmeena Kipp, Josiah Phillips-Nelson, Jaiden Woolridge.
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"Quetzal" artist Rocío Sáenz Colín
$50.00
About the artist: Rocio is a member of artist Sergio Pech Cetz's program offering art and painting classes for older adults in Merida, Mexico. Her class participated in Create Plenty's International Plastic Quilt Project in 2010, where they learned about the harmful effects of single-use plastics in the environment, as well as creative techniques to combine discarded plastic trash with canvas and paint.
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"Recycle Hope", artist Tara Gallagher
$65.00
Tara began making art out of single-use plastics in college. She worked with a materials recovery facility in Ann Arbor, Michigan to collect plastic bottle caps, which are not recycled, and create a temporary installation. She recently graduated from Lewis & Clark Law School with a Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law. She hopes to find new and innovative legal avenues for dealing with plastic pollution.
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"Seamster Scout Merit Badges" artist Andrew Blubaugh
$35.00
About the artist: Andy Blubaugh is a filmmaker. His works have screened at venues worldwide, including the Sundance, Clermont-Ferrand, Edinburgh, Milano, and Seattle International Film Festivals. His films can be seen in the United States on the PBS and Logo networks, and have been broadcast in France, Italy, Sweden, and Taiwan. In 2008 he was identified as one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film." He is currently an instructor and thesis advisor at the Northwest Film Center School of Film. He sews on an ancient "New Home" sewing machine with a tricky foot pedal, and has recently learned how to stitch decorative piping (which looks totally awesome and way easier than he would have thought).
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"Slavic Plastic Quilt with Yellow Flowers" artist Michaela Senarksy
$35.00
About the artist: I have been creating pieces of wearable art since I was about 6 years old. I made my first crocheted white purse made out of plastic Raffia-like material when I was in second grade. I find tremendous satisfaction in creating products made out of recycled and reclaimed materials. I never shop at craft or art stores. I only work with materials that I find in thrift stores or they are used and given to me. I don’t like waste. Growing up in a former communist country I learned to live with little and used only materials that were available. In my daily work I combine different craft techniques like crocheting, knitting, wire wrapping, sewing, macramé, beading, quilting, and sewn and bobbin lace. I make hats, purses, rings out of vintage buttons, beaded bracelets, beaded necklaces, and beaded earrings. I also collect stones and wire wrap them. Michaela's website is http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/handmadebymichaela. She can be reached at handmadebymichaela@yahoo.com
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"Sticking Together" artist Alodie Spires
$50.00
About the artist: One of my passions is to reuse and recycle materials in order to give new life to previously used items, such as vintage beads, buttons, found objects and ephemera. I am attracted to shiny objects. I love color and sparkle! While I have been creating jewelry for many years, more recently I have been using my energy toward creating art that expresses a more personal experience. My hope is to evoke some of the mystery, mood and beauty of nature while I use inspiration from language, memories and the arts to transform images and ideas.
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"Still Life with Pear" artist Celia Sanchez A.
$35.00
About the artist: Celia is a member of artist Sergio Pech Cetz's program offering art and painting classes for older adults in Merida, Mexico. Her class participated in Create Plenty's International Plastic Quilt Project in 2010, where they learned about the harmful effects of single-use plastics in the environment, as well as creative techniques to combine discarded plastic trash with canvas and paint.
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"Tortuga" (Sea Turtle) artist Rocío Sáenz Colín
$50.00
About the artist: Rocio is a member of artist Sergio Pech Cetz's program offering art and painting classes for older adults in Merida, Mexico. Her class participated in Create Plenty's International Plastic Quilt Project in 2010, where they learned about the harmful effects of single-use plastics in the environment, as well as creative techniques to combine discarded plastic trash with canvas and paint.
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"Tribute – The Transitory Nature of Life" artist lk moonwood, aka lulu
$70.00
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About the artist: lk moonwood, aka lulu is a mixed media artist engaged in creating playfully whimsy, as well as psychological, narratives. Through artistic self-expression she seeks to bring joy and compassion to our understanding of the human condition. Born across the street from the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, California, lulu was raised in the sunny, clean-air suburbs of Los Angeles. Despite this auspicious beginning, a tragic incident led to her move to Oregon, where she found the people had sunny dispositions, even if the weather did not. She has been an Oregonian since 1981. She graduated from the University of Oregon in 1986 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Life has taken lulu on many detours, from being a Saturday Market artisan, a professional picture framer, to an elementary school teacher. She is happy to be focused on her art work once again.
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"Tucan" (Toucan) artist Rocío Sáenz Colín
$50.00
About the artist: Rocio is a member of artist Sergio Pech Cetz's program offering art and painting classes for older adults in Merida, Mexico. Her class participated in Create Plenty's International Plastic Quilt Project in 2010, where they learned about the harmful effects of single-use plastics in the environment, as well as creative techniques to combine discarded plastic trash with canvas and paint.
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“Pez Loro Guacamaya” (fish from Oaxacan coast) artist Rocío Sáenz Colín
$50.00
About the artist: Rocio is a member of artist Sergio Pech Cetz's program offering art and painting classes for older adults in Merida, Mexico. Her class participated in Create Plenty's International Plastic Quilt Project in 2010, where they learned about the harmful effects of single-use plastics in the environment, as well as creative techniques to combine discarded plastic trash with canvas and paint.
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