Justice and Creative Reuse
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How can creative reuse be part of a personal practice living and working for justice? In this podcast, I share ideas on how creative reuse has taught me to turn my heart on.
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