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Recycled art and trash fashion

Four galleries of recycled art and a third-grade welder

May 3, 2012

What happens when you mix an arc welder, an eight-year old boy, and a handy grandfather? You found out if you visited Bellingham’s Allied Arts gallery in April, one of four galleries in The RE Store’s 11th Annual Recycled Arts Show. This year’s multi-city exhibition attracted professional and semi-professional submissions from a talented pool of regional [...]

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Recycled Art Show kicks off with “Litter Becomes Art”

April 5, 2012

What happens when you gather 940 pounds of litter from a beach and turn the best of that litter into a temporary art installation? 30 plus volunteers have fun, get creative and do something active to help the declining quality of our marine waters. The RE Store’s 11th Annual Recycled Art Show opened with the [...]

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Call for Recycled Art & Design – Due 3/2/2012

December 16, 2011

The RE Store is welcoming submissions for the 2012 11th Annual Recycled Arts Show, to be be held in April of 2012. Galleries in Seattle and Bellingham, Washington will host month-long exhibitions of art and functional design pieces. All pieces must be made from a minimum of 75% reclaimed materials. Submissions are limited to residents [...]

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Reclaimed Wood + Old Hardware + Vintage Ads = Cabin Art

June 23, 2011

While living out on Camano Island, Mike Scarce has perfected his hobby of making what he calls “Cabin Art”. These pieces fit into any rustic hideaway’s art collection. His materials include: reclaimed wood, salvaged wood boxes, used cabinet doors, old address numbers and letters, old wire, fasteners and nails, and ads that are collected from [...]

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Ruby Re-Usable and the recycled art movement

June 10, 2011

Diane Kurzyna aka Ruby Re-Usable is one of our heroes. She has been an integral member of The RE Store’s annual Recycled Arts & Fashion Show for close to a decade. She has served for years as a jurist, promoter, networker, and a designer of pieces for the Trash Fashion Shows. Her network of artists [...]

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Arts Shows wind down – but Arts Workshops still to come!

April 27, 2011

  The end of April is near, and that means The RE Store’s Recycled Arts & Fashion shows are coming to a close as well.  We’ve had a tremendous time – so many great art and functional art pieces and trash fashions were made – and we hope you were inspired and entertained too!  If [...]

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Trash Fashion, a Sushi restaurant, & Japanese relief efforts

April 15, 2011

What do you get when you combine a very creative Japanese woman with trash from her sushi restaurant and a devastating trifecta catastrophe in her homeland? The answer: high quality trash fashion designs and relief efforts for the earth quake victims of the Tohoku region in Japan. Hisako Ishikura, known as Chako, has been living [...]

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Recycled Arts Gallery Opening – artist’s point of view

April 11, 2011

A successful and fun Seattle Recycled Arts Gallery Opening happened this past weekend at Blowing Sands Studio.  The artwork was creatively hung by Marybeth Barr, and melodic sounds came from our resident RE Store DJ, Tim O’Neil.  Many of the artists were on hand to celebrate and answer questions.  For one artist’s point of view, [...]

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Illuminating recycled art and design with style

April 9, 2011

Guest post by Alana Coleman, artist, designer and bright shining light I have always loved the old gas outdoor street lamps the kind you see in Europe. But I didn’t have a yard so I decided to create one I could use inside my home. I found some old style light fixtures in an antique shop and went home [...]

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Recycled Arts & Fashions have been selected!

March 16, 2011

Over the last week or so, juries in both Seattle and Bellingham have been feverishly deliberating over all the amazing submissions we’ve received for Recycled Arts, Functional Art & Trash Fashions shows.  Many great pieces, and lots of talented folks – makes us wish we had unlimited space to accept everything into the shows!  But, [...]

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