Justice and Creative Reuse
How can creative reuse be part of a personal practice living and working for justice? I share ideas on how creative reuse has taught me to turn my heart on. You can listen to my podcast episode in this YouTube video. It originally aired in June 2020.
Be sure to reach out and tell someone today that they are making a difference in your life. Let’s lift each other up!
Featured creative reuse artwork by Jeremy Okai Davis – viewed as part of the GLEAN artist residency at the Portland landfill
Creative Reuse Artists to Check Out
These artists have been featured on the Trashmagination podcast:
- Hirotoshi Ito – sculptures that incorporate objects into stones
- Junior Fritz Jaquet – expressive faces from toilet paper tubes
- Yuken Teruya – reminding us about the trees behind paper products
- Maya Freelon Asante – splatter paintings from tissue paper
- Hiroshi Fuji – giant experiences made from plastic toys
- Jeremy Okai Davis and Miel-Margarita Paredes – sculpture artists who did an artist residency at the Portland landfill
- Sayaka Ganz – sculptures from plastic utensils
- Chiharu Shiota – installation artist featured in the episodes on books, shoes and luggage
- Ruby Silvious – paints on tea bags, egg shells and other materials
- T-Bag Designs – artists painting teabags
- Nicolas Holiber – sculpture trail of birds sculpted from scrap wood
- Windy Chien – creator of A Year with Knots
- Erub Arts – sculptures from fishing rope that wash up on beaches
- Yoshihiro Okada – origami from orange peels
- Red Hong Yi – sculptures from many recycled materials including cosmetics and chopsticks
- Ameenah Begum – recycles expired cosmetics into paint
- Haroshi – sculptor who upcycles skateboards
- Ghidaq Al-Nizar – paints with coffee
- Arvind Gupta – makes toys from recycled materials
- Akira Sakano – zero waste initiatives in Kamikatsu, Japan
- Kumjoo Ahn, Julia Kwon and Wonju Seo – bojagi artists
- Carolina Fontoura Alzaga – makes chandeliers from bike chains
- Young-Deok Seo – makes sculptures from bike chains
- Asma Chaudhary – wraps yarn around many items
- Danny Seo – creative reuse celebrity mentioned in episodes on CDs and mattresses
- Leticia Bajuyo – large installations from CDs
- Yuki Tatsumi – sculptures from chopstick wrappers
- Jean Shin – sculpts with many recycled materials including prescription bottles and blue jeans
- Landfill Harmonic – first story ever shared on Trashmagination! – musical instruments made from recycled materials
- Tyree Guyton and Hwang Ji-Hae – made art installations with thousands of shoes
- Lexy Ho-Tai – makes sculptures from recycled materials including monsters called Kookers
- Latoya Moore-Broyles – makes dollhouse accessories from recycled materials
- Rontherin Ratcliff – sculptures from trash created by natural disasters
- Frederico Uribe – sculptures from many recycled materials
- Hoang Tran and Diem Chau – carve sculptures from crayons
- Chinami Mori – weaves many materials
- Isaiah Fraser – wood carver