Category Archives: Recycled Garbage Art

Projects and discussions about how to reuse recyclable materials in art. Includes monthly projects focusing on one material per month, forms to help you start a recycled art project in your school or community, links to websites, and lists of resources for inspiration and reference in making your own recycled materials pieces.

Ocean Plastic Collages

In February 2016, I made a trip to visit dear friends who have retired to Eleuthera, Bahamas, and to scope out a possible project about how coastal communities’ lives are affected by changes in the ocean, including increasing garbage in the water and on the shores and changing marine life migration and availability. Eleuthera is [...]

Call and Response

Angie Newman Johnson Gallery at Episcopal High School 1200 North Quaker Lane, Alexandria, VA 22302 May 12 – June 14, 12015 Jessica Beels, Elsabe Dixon, Inga Hamilton – curated by Elizabeth Vorlicek For the past year or so, I have been marinating ideas and slowly producing work for a 3-person show called Call and Response.  [...]