Quarterly News

November 1, 2007

Volume 1, Number 1

OUR ARTISTS

Jayd Almquist Collage work from found pieces

Juanita Canzoneri  Mosaic's from reclaimed glass

Kristy Garry  Jewelry recreated from found and broken pieces

Chris Jones  Refurbished found furniture and Jewelry

Harry Marsh  Sculptures from recycled paper

Tammy Matthews  recycle2art.com Founder and Mixed Media Art utilizing salvaged or broken items

Reenie Matthews  Purses, Handbags, and more made from old sweaters

Dalibor Moyzes Painting utilizing reclaimed wood and paint saved from the landfill

Pam Cole, aka Queenie  Mixed Media and collage created with found objects

ReWax - Recycled Candle Votives

 Juanita Rivas-Raymer  Recycled plastic crocheted purses and original art pieces.

Jim Rosenau Woodwork utilizing found and saved books

Felicia Singkang  Wire and vintage button jewelry

Havery Whitcomb    Voted this quarter’s Feature Artist who creates CD & DVD Mosaics

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Thank you for your support.  J

WHAT WE HAVE BEEN UP TO

Wow it has been a long time in coming but Recycle2Art.com is now up and running and our artists are awesome!  I want to take the time to thank all of my friends and family who have supported me through this process.  I have had a blast meeting other artists, learning to build websites, and creating some art of my own.  I can’t wait to see what the next few months bring.

FEATURE ARTIST   -   HARVEY WHITCOMB

 Located in Centennial, Colorado, Harvey Whitcomb is an Architect who is also an innovative artist working primarily in recycled materials.  His techniques create beauty from discarded and mundane materials, turning trash into treasure.  He has explored metal, foils, paper and is now primarily exploring a material he invented himself: CDs and DVDs modified with heat and flame to spectral, opalescent beauty. 

Please click here to e-mail your votes for next Quarter’s Featured Artist.

RECYCLING IDEAS

·         Save old toys, ornaments, or bowls that have lost their paint and recoat them with fallen leaves, magazine clippings, newspaper, old fabric, etc……

·         Anything can be a canvas, find some scrap wood, an old saw, even a worn out blanket and make them beautiful. 

·         Use old balloons to make stress balls.  Cut the end off of one blown up balloon and fill it with flower, beads, rice, beans, etc…  Cut a second balloon and stretch it over the ball.  Continue to add more balloons around the ball alternating the location of the opening until you are satisfied.

ONGOING AND UPCOMING EVENTS

November 5 - November 6, 2007                    Moss Rock Festival  Celebrating Nature & Open Spaces through ART & DESIGN:

November 16 - November 18, 2007                 Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival The Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival is celebrating its ninth year! This event attracts thousands of art lovers, trashy shoppers and the eco-conscious holiday gift-giver. More than fifty artists who use a minimum of 75% recycled materials to create their work, will be displaying and offering these wonders for sale in our art market and juried art exhibit. Santa Fe kids get to exhibit in the youth art exhibit. Kids make-and-take art corner. Friday night (7pm) Famous Trash Fashion & Costume Contest.

December 4, 2007                                             The Container Project      They need everyone's help to get this project underway! This is a Collaborating opportunity for all artist. Creating a community by way of concept. The internet contains millions and billions of peoples ideas, this is a way to bring those ideas together. Using the biggest "human container", the container will contain a smaller container. Essentially making the internet feel like a smaller "object" and making people feel more connected. The website will display everyone's work and every piece will be different. To fully understand this collaborative project, go to the website and check it out. This is experimental, but it should be fun!

March 21, 2008 – April 4, 2008                               Project HOPE

Project Health Optimism Prevention Education, (HOPE) is an art exhibition and auction taking place at Galerie Dentaire located at 1239 rue Amherst in downtown Montréal, Quebec, Canada. The works that are available for exhibit and auction represent local, national and international painters, photographers and sculptors of emerging and established creative stature. Although this is initially a fundraising effort to help raise much needed funding for AIDS Community Care Montreal/Sida bénévoles Montréal so they may continue the exemplary work they have provided in the field of HIV/AIDS for the past 2 decades and to assist with their ongoing provisioning of  programs, services and supports for People Living With HIV/AIDS, the true impetus behind this event is to raise awareness of a disease that effects over 40 million people worldwide.

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