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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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Who made THAT functional art?

January 7, 2011

Artist: Eberhard Eichner Artistic reinventor of furniture and creative trim work While growing up in Berlin, Germany in the 1950’s and 60’s, fixing, mending and making “new-out-of-the-old” was a part of Eberhard’s daily family life. While in college, he transformed a door into a “forest” by furnishing it with things collected from the woods surrounding [...]

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