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The Recycled Arts Festival brings together over 125 highly talented artists who create amazing pieces of art by using a minimum of 75% recycled materials. Peruse the many booths at the festival where you can observe anything from jewelry, wearable and accessories to garden fine art, furniture or habitation decor. Here'southward a listing of artists that were accustomed to final year'southward canceled festival... we've added them to the site this year then they become the take a chance to showcase their incredible art!
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Air Sign Designs
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I create mosaic artwork from reclaimed and constitute lumber. My goal is to use 100% reclaimed materials including forest, lath, metal, paint, and textiles. The aesthetic of my work reflects a rustic bohemian vibe with a Pacific Northwest flare focusing on mountain landscapes, geometric patterns, and hammered metal accents.
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Art by Chrissie Forbes
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I sell Plant Object Robot Fine art. I phone call them my 'critters.' Each critter has a unique personality, a name and a back story that is attached. They are essentially indoor metallic sculptures. These sweet critters are made of household metal pieces I buy from estate sales, thrift stores and such. The pieces are primarily brass, copper and silver-plated items such every bit candle stick holders, bowls, tea strainers, planters, silverware, etc.
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ArtSparks Studio
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I apply a plasma torch to cut frail designs into worn and broken shovels and saws to create garden art and wall decor. I likewise utilize scraps of steel and copper sheet to cut designs of birds and other objects of nature.
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At Wits End
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At Wits End creates twelvemonth round outdoor garden concrete "paintings" as well as garden rugs and useful wood boxes. I am frequently at my 'wits finish' when I meet the waste there is in this world. I thoroughly enjoy showing and sharing what can become of that waste product with some creativity.
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Cranium Journals
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Attic Journals is committed to sustainably offsetting school & library discards by upcycling well worn books into journals, garlands & other appurtenances that delight all sorts of bookish humans. We stand eighteen feet from the cusp of the landfill where books are beingness ground upwardly for toilet paper provender. We work to never interrupt literacy, only landfill with our sourcing.
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Baer Naked Metals
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I brand beautiful and whimsical metallic art animals using a lot of gears and springs from heavy machinery. I look for things in parts similar faces and bodies and legs. I work on heavy equipment and then I bring habitation a lot of broken parts from work.
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Beyond The Edge Woodworking
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I create piece of furniture and artwork using a combination of salvaged lumber, 100+ year former metal supports, family heirlooms, knick-knacks and vintage drawers, fireplace screens and windows. Large slabs of wood are similar looking at a fire— the grains and figures throughout wood can showcase many years of our past.
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Bill Leigh
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I make furniture, sculpture, kinetic pieces and yard art from metal and forest. My materials come from farms, the dump, bit yards.
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Bob Wahr Creations
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I am a recycled metal/establish object artist. I re-purpose decommissioned propane tanks & fuel storage tanks into fire pits, tables & firewood storage units. I weave old & leftover barbed wire into whimsical bird nests.
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Bottleworks451 Recycled Fine art
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I make ocean and forest themed fine art, likewise as jewelry (earrings) and garden fine art, using all manner of recycled, salvaged, and institute materials. I use recycled materials considering at that place is so much usable material bachelor in the earth without having to buy new materials, and everything can be turned into art if you look at it long enough. I just love the idea of turning something considered to be trash into something considered art.
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Captured Spirits
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I make origami earrings and bottle dioramas called Captured Spirits using recycled magazine paper. I am xi yrs old. I recall that recycling is a form of art, and that it helps the surround, instead of harming it. I get my paper from recycling bins. I get my bottles from friends and family. I make these to warm peoples hearts and to go along the environment clean.
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Cats Dogs Words
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I am a painter. I apply salvaged materials to help tell my footling stories. I use salvaged and scraps to help tell piffling stories. I love old sign letters and anything with some patina or wear on it. An old lawn sprinkler is the alphabetic character "o." A wood foundry mold makes a great frame for a clock. My stash of "treasures" to exist reused is out of control. I am a painter. I use salvaged materials to assist tell my little stories.
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Chopstick Fine art
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We make folding baskets and more, crafted from recycled bamboo chopsticks. We gather unmarried-apply bamboo chopsticks from restaurants, boil them at high temperature, color them and then craft them into functional art.
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Cigar Box Guitars by Radagast Jones
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I build acoustic and electric guitars from empty cigar boxes, recycled hardwoods, and some recycled guitar parts. I use empty cigar boxes obtained from a local discount tobacco shop, wood obtained from old furniture, leftover pieces from expanse woodworkers and dumpster diving. I get some of the guitar hardware from old guitars I find at thrift shops or pawn shops.
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Cindylicious Wearable
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I brand Pixie Coats, Fairy Coats and Hoodies from natural cobweb recycled sweaters. I besides make pants, dresses and tops from recycled T-shirts and jeans, and baby and toddler hats and clothing from old bed sheets.
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Cloud Nine Creations
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I enjoy making retro-futuristic art from recycled and constitute pieces. Lamps and clocks to bird feeders and robots. I employ odd items or unique pieces that catch my center with a vintage or futuristic look or an oddity about them that, if not immediately, volition work their way into a time to come piece. I observe items for my pieces at various places like estate sales and costless piles to the Habitat for Humanity Re-Store.
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Consciously Crafted Jewelry
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Gina Tombleson of Consciously Crafted Jewelry designs jewelry that is mitt made from used bicycle inner tubes. Her process starts by slicing the inner tubes downwards the center and scrubbing out the insides. She dries them thoroughly and cuts them into strips.
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Cowboy Kitty Creations
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I upward-bicycle cowboy shirts into aprons for men, women and children. I use reclaimed textile and make tooth fairy pillows, doubled sided napkins and microwave bowls. I too utilise my own organic catnip and make true cat toys in up-cycled infant socks.
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Curious Drinking glass
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I produce glass pendants, including pocket-size hummingbirds out of 99% recycled pyrex drinking glass. I utilise recycled glass (trash) considering I cannot stand to throw information technology away just because information technology is too small to employ ordinarily. I use bits of leftover, rejected pieces of glass from the regular product of glass artwork. This year I have caused extra bits of glass from my granddaughter'south drinking glass blowing class in high school. They go along buckets full.
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cutegirlcreations
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Tonya Meyer of cutegirlcreations creates jewelry, including pendants, earrings and bracelet components from old, broken China plates. Her jewelry is finished with lead-free silver solder, making a lasting keepsake piece of jewelry.
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Department of Work
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Nosotros rescue unloved cast fe cookware, clean it upward and re-flavor it then it can get back to work. 100% sustainable, salubrious and affordable. Adopt a treasure which will be a part of your family unit for years to come. We thrift, trade and barter for our items, often saving them from the dump or scrap heap. By rescuing them, we restore their sustainability and offering treasures that are healthy and are 100% sustainable.
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Designs by January Lough
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My husband and I make women's jackets & trench coats with our ain designs. Nosotros cutting up sweatshirts, redesign & run up them back into cute and popular styles. I effort to use every office of the sweatshirt in this process. The button loops are the ribbing of the shirts and many of our buttons are from kokosnoot shells that would otherwise be discarded.
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Do-Over Designs
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I make women'due south fashions from recycled and reclaimed fabrics. Mostly skirts from t-shirts, ponchos and shrugs from knit sweaters and tunics from men'southward dress shirts.
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Don Perry Metallic Art
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I worked in a lumber manufactory for years and watched the large ring saw and circular saw blades thrown away. I was introduced to a plasma cutter and started to re-purpose the blades. When my task of 17 years went by the wayside, I decided to use my skills with a plasma cutter and repurposed one of their discarded byproducts (saw blades) in a new direction — art.
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Eco Bags by Sandy
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I make crochet purses from recycled plastic bags, totes, plant hangers, water bottle holders. I cut recycled bags into strips and crochet information technology into purses, totes ect. I get bags from friends, and stores recycle boxes.
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Eco-Chimes
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I catechumen discarded bottles and stain drinking glass remnants into wind chimes and hangable pieces of art. I utilise a kiln to slump and fuse many of the pieces of drinking glass that I use. As an gorging recycler, I also comprise pieces of "institute" exotic forest into some pieces. I apply recycled drinking glass (trash) because I cannot stand to throw information technology away just considering it is too modest to utilise unremarkably.
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Fairy Forge
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I make nature inspired garden art from constitute subcontract and truck parts. I am lucky to receive unwanted metal from my friends who become to auctions along with diving into scrap bins that truck companies are looking to get rid of.
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Fairy Junk Mother
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I make sculptures that await like robots and other items from recycled metals and found items. I also make metallic birdhouses and bird feeders from coffee pots, tea pots and more.
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Faron Evans
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Nature inspired, pocket-size scale metal art pieces such equally birds and bugs. My artwork is on an extremely smaller scale then nigh metal artists, and is uncommonly clean and detail oriented. There are no ii exactly akin, I give each piece individual graphic symbol.
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Fire Sphere Fire Pits
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Leon Potterton of Burn Sphere Fire Pits creates fire pits from 55-gallon barrels and solar lights from cans. As a welder, he enjoys creating something beautiful out of recycled metals, similar old cans and scrap metal barrels.
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Focus Pokus
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I make jewelry from used/recycled skateboards. Stud, dangle and hoop earrings, rings, bangles, pendants and keychains. All items are hand fabricated and I use hypoallergenic hardware.
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Forgeress Ironworks
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I use one-time garden tools such as pitch forks and shovels and make garden fine art with them. I use erstwhile pie pans for bird feeders. I craft recycled old wool blankets into benches from old rock corey mesh. I find original machine emblems and wrenches and brand coat racks from sometime barn wood. I take erstwhile big soup cans and cutting art into them and make lights.
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G Latchford
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I create original stained glass mosaics using recycled wooden window frames and scrap stained glass. My work is usually figurative; I create expressive characters that gloat the female perspective.
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Aureate Resurrections
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Made from a multifariousness of metals and other materials, we brand fanciful and fun items for garden and domicile. Lamps, sculptures and yard art are some of the pieces nosotros make.
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Gongs For The Current of air
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We relieve expired SCUBA tanks fire extinguishers and other steel cylinders. We then repurpose them into chiming bells. We got interested in making wind chimes back in 2014 when we needed an anniversary gift for each other. Leah knowing that Jon is a projection motivated artist brought home a SCUBA tank and said let's brand our own. The chance began by making wind chimes for friends and family.
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Gretchen Wright
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I make decor from found objects, most of which are vintage-inspired. I love to salvage vintage items, even if they're incomplete or damaged. I similar to look at these things from the past and see them in a new light and use them in unexpected ways. I notice most of the things I use at manor sales and thrift stores.
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One-half Moon Farm
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Brenda Lee Calvert of Half Moon Subcontract handcrafts art inspired by nature, similar dragonflies, flowers and owls. She uses recycled glass, wood, metal and plastic to create tiles, garden totems, garden windows and more.
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Handcrafted past Andralene
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I make dolls and baby quilts from old felted wool and cashmere sweaters. Did y'all know that the EPA estimates that the average person discards 70 + pounds of clothing per year?
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haoleware.com
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I am an artist focused on reclamation of unwanted material, I plough the unwanted into something new. All of the textile I choose to work with originates from something that was destined for the waste stream. My hand fabricated finished works contain metallic of all varieties. When available I love to piece of work with quondam tanks, appliances, tools, or general knick knacks which are no longer wanted.
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Happy 60 minutes Candles
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We partner with local bars/restaurants to upcycle beer, wine and alcohol bottles. Nosotros make a quality cut and smoothen and then fill up with wax, scents and color to make candles. We upcycle alcohol bottles that would usually be thrown out or recycled and brand them into high quality candles. We source the wax locally and sell locally keeping information technology all within our community.
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Herman'south License Plate Fine art
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I create art out of license plates— birdhouses, barn stars, mailboxes, purses, dust pans, pencil holders, signs, g art flower spinner, etc. I drive for a used car dealer and they are required to remove the license plates from the cars and destroy them. And so instead of the throwing them abroad the give them to me and I make things out of them.
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Hobby Yard Art
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I recycle erstwhile sewing machines into tractors, cars, lighthouses, trains; covert crystal bowls into decorative yard art with hanging crystals; create yard fine art out of erstwhile tools. Materials come up from garage sales and austerity stores converting them into whimsical g fine art.
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Ian Beyer Metals
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I create whimsical, welded metal art for dwelling and garden. Using by and large scrap and repurposed metal found in junk yards, thrift stores, and garages, I visualize the final piece, deconstruct and cutting out pieces, then weld the metallic sculpture. Sometimes parts need to be bent, which may require heat or a jig. All parts must be cleaned with a wire castor bike, solvent solution, or flame.
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Ironbender
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We use recycled metallic to create unique one-of-a-kind metal sculptures. Scrap Metal is a unique medium to create one of a kind Sculpture's. We observe our materials in scrapyards, industry, dwelling house, junkyards, and people like you lot.
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irre-SISTA-ble Creations
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I make jewelry from woods pieces, and recycled wood coasters, signs and boxes. I collect torn downwardly fences, old wood flooring from boats and make stools, boxes and home decor from it. I find dolls at goodwill and thrift shops make them into creepy art. Light bulbs from friends are hollowed out and fabricated into hanging bud vases. Recycled fools into creepy creations!
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Jason Pickering Studios
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Jason Pickering of Jason Pickering Studios uses discarded dolls and toys to make sculptural pieces. Since vinyl is a porous he uses Rit DyeMore to modify the colour of any vinyl fabric. Jason focuses on creating dolls with a diverseness of colors, sizes and silhouettes.
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Joshdailyart
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I am a Portland, Oregon based metal and found material sculpture artist. I take been making found art/industrial sculptures for over 20 years. My subjects are ordinarily people or animals, along with re-purposed eccentric, just functional furniture.
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Joy Filled Living
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We make fairy houses from plastic bottles, egg cartons, cardboard, lids, cardboard, paints and embellishments. These are mailed to children with 'big' diagnosis all over the USA as part of The Addie Project. Information technology is accompanied past an elf-helper story which teaches them how to kickstart their own inner rainbow and play a powerful tole in bringing them promise and healing.Coin raised will get towards costs of running Project Addie.
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jul
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Julie Koch of jul lays out mosaics on unconventional canvases of windows, scrap wood, bowling balls, plates and other items destined for the dump. Her artwork process is inspired by the recycled goods themselves, allowing the object'southward lines to guide her mosaics.
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Just a Footling Charm
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I make earrings, necklaces, cardinal chains and zipper pulls out of salvaged copper flashing from one demolition in Bend, OR. I make all of my blanks out of this weathered material. They are stamped with words and designs and I set a workstation in my berth to brand personalized items on the spot.
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Simply Chime In
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We make wind chime from recycled silverware that is twisted to many different shapes. Nosotros likewise use glass plates drinking glasses and figurines to hang line-fishing line with drinking glass beads and at the end we adhere spoons and forks to brand the chime racket. We also brand spoon rings and bracelets.
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Late Night Lampworks
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I brand jewelry using a variety of materials that have been discarded. I brand hand-torched, drinking glass beads using glass from discarded bottles, jars, vintage glassware and scrap art drinking glass. Accent beads in my jewelry are re-purposed from austerity store and estate store jewelry finds. I brand paw-rolled beads from inherited material scraps.
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Leslie Hand Painted Glass
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My love of painting & old houses has merged into a creative art form that gives new life to discarded pieces of history. I gather and collect old wooden windows from around my neighborhood in North Portland, clean them up and paint my original floral designs on the back.
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LightMusic
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My passion and mission are to requite new, usable life to broken musical instruments in the form of sculptures (some would call lamps) that accept the primary calorie-free, night light, and candle holder, for when there is no electricity. I use broken musical instruments mainly from eBay, merely also vintage lamp parts and shades that would normally end up in landfills.
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Marvelous Mosaics
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I create glass on drinking glass mosaics from recycled stained glass, discarded drinking glass shelving and upward-cycled wood items that nosotros mill down to create the frames, or I employ old wood windows.
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Marvin Lahti
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I use recycled cans ( re: soda, juice, beer etc.) to make my artwork, then I add a magnet on the back. The color of each slice comes from the color of the can. I use recycled drink cans from friends or the garbage to make my art.
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Mason-Rivera Sculpture Garden
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I create one-of-a-kind abstract metal sculptures for the habitation and garden using mainly found and salvaged metals. I search the scrapyards and discard bins of fabrication shops to find the metals I use.
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Mast Metal Art
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I employ surplus sheets of sixteen-gauge steel, found objects, old tools, subcontract implements and recycled materials to create 2 and 3 dimensional pieces that are both whimsical and artistic. Each piece that I create is unique and one-of-a-kind. I use a hand-held plasma cutter, grinder, gas torch and welder.
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Metal Creation
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Wayne Deaton of Metallic Cosmos has been welding since the immature age of viii after being taught by his father. He chooses to use materials that would have gone to the landfill because he even so sees life and beauty in all types of material.
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Michael Barley
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I utilize recycled window drinking glass and fuse it in a kiln to brand light switch covers, nighttime lights, dishes etc. I also use bit pieces of contumely and make jewelry. Fifty-fifty the silver I utilise for the ear wires is made with recycled argent. Window glass is non recycled in the Portland area then I bask using this glass that would end up in the landfill and give it another life as a piece of art. I as well use modest scraps of metal from metallic shops to form into jewelry.
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Mindy's Beer Gear
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Mindy Humphrey of Mindy's Beer Gear reimagines discarded beer packaging into wallets, luggage tags and other functional and fun accessories including pet waste material bag holders, disc golf frisbee holsters and tiara headbands.
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Morphosis-Fine art
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I create reusable grocery bags from damaged and discarded oil paintings. Most of my paintings come from the goodwill outlet bins and are torn or damaged. I line them in new discontinued cloth samples from local furniture stores.
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Mouse Business firm Decor
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I make Folded Book Fine art from sometime books and jewelry and purses from pull top tabs. As people are going digital, I use old books and find them in thrift stores or from donations. Besides donated are pill tabs and old jewelry bits.
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Muffet Designs Postage stamp Fine art
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I create Postage Postage Collage Fine art out of postage stamp stamps from countries all over the globe. I like the fact that I have been able to exhale new life into stamps that are usually thrown out or placed in albums never to be seen again.
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Mugwump
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We create fun & funky handbags, wallets & accessories from books, games, maps, album covers & more than! We love making home accessories from reclaimed materials ranging from paper to wood to metallic. We glean materials from thrift stores, recycling centers, and often accept donations from retiring teachers & people who inherit their parent's old encyclopedia set—so some!
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My Bonny
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I primarily create clothing art garments. I also create fabric collages. Further, I create themed wall hangings and found objects assemblages. I get all my materials from thrift stores and donated by friends. Fabric is a common cloth and easy to procure.
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MylinArt
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I make figurative metal sculptures. People throw away then much stuff that scrap metal is a readily available medium for me to work with. I've e'er been a maker of things. I worked as an industrial welder for many years so my metal work is but another attribute of my being.
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Nature Lights
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I make patio/dark lights from recycled mason jars and things from nature. I learned from working with young children, and a pocket-sized budget, to reuse materials that are easily found in nature, junk drawers, and broken jewelry. They tin go on to please us, and won't finish upwards in the landfill. My inspiration is children's art. Simple, unstructured, and colorful.
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Nothing Conventional
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I brand i of a kind apparel and accessories from recycled fabrics and clothing including vintage saris and vintage fabrics and wearable.
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Ane Footling Blackbird
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My artwork is a collection of whimsical birdhouses and 2d silhouetted playful art. All pieces are fabricated with sometime argue board, rusty hardware, recycled paint and bits of leather and tin. All my recycled elements are used functionally as rooftops or bases for the birdhouses or silhouettes. I finish them off by adorning them with lovely finds and using them as perches or added texture in my artwork.
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Pacific Northwest Woodturning Guild
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We are a guild of 10 members who make wooden items, primarily using the lathe. Our turnings are bowls, boxes, platters, toys, mirrors, hair sticks, and other similar items. The vast majority of the raw wood we apply is sourced from local trees that accept been removed due to development, storm impairment, or disease. Nosotros are a resource for folks who want something more to get of the woods, due to the necessity to remove a tree, than mulch or landfill material.
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Pack 358
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Pack 358 creates fire starters made with dryer lint and onetime wax candles, marshmallow/hot dog sticks fabricated from old forks and badminton rackets, along with other camping related items. The kids learn about conservation and existence thrifty. We find our recycled materials from leftovers and austerity stores.
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Paperwings Studio
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I use recycled wood to make clocks, switch plates, coasters, earrings. I also make night lights with recycled plastic and greeting cards from recycled paper. I use the materials for backing of each particular detail. I get the wood from a recycled wood from Salvaged Works in Portland. The plastic I get from unlike sources. The newspaper mill shop is where I get my recycled paper. I feel recycled fabric helps heighten my art work likewise as being good for the environs.
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Pith to Bark
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I make sculptural pollinator boxes for solitary nesting bees such as the Stonemason Bee. The cavities in the box provides nesting sites for female person bees to occupy and lay their eggs. This gives a necessary habitat for a dwindling bee population while helping to promote a healthy natural ecosystem and adorning your garden with a unique sculptural delight. They are congenital using entirely reclaimed wood and equipped with four to 6 inch long removable straws, allowing for nesting sites to be cleaned or replaced each season.
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Pure Soul
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I blueprint jewelry and accessories made from repurposed metals, scrap leather, and annihilation that inspires me to create one of a kind wear art. The upcycled materials come to me in various ways. I am given broken jewelry pieces to repurpose, leather scraps that would otherwise be thrown away, and pieces of scrap metallic, to create something new. I am always on the picket for materials that inspire me to give new life to and relish the goodwill bins.
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Raw-Creation
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I create steampunk inspired dolls and working clocks and 3-D collages utilizing institute treasures. I've been creating art from recycled artifacts since I was a wee child.
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I create housewares made from used wine barrels. I started working with barrels to create candle holders for gifts. Initially I started with the candle holders and lazy Susans. As time moved on I started to imagine what else could be created with these unique shapes.
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Reinstated Designs
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I make clothing and textiles using 100% post consumer items. I completely deconstruct each particular, create a repurposed material and construct sweatshirts, dresses, shorts, skirts, jar jackets, scarves, gloves, etc. I glean items from austerity stores, equally-Is bins and donations from my customs.
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Renaissance Studio
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I make cards and artwork from remnants, soap wrappers, stray game pieces, textile scraps and the occasional squashed chapeau. Also regular household materials (ie: soap wrappers, cereal boxes, etc.), I find materials in thrift stores and free boxes at garage sales.
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Repurposed Wood Studio
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Repurposed Wood Studio makes manus carved utensils and art pieces from cast off wood scraps from firewood to cabinet/flooring cutoff ends. Diverse styles of rolling pins, spoons, rice paddles, wok stirs, cheese boards, bowls, scoops, krumkake rollers, lefse turners, and wall and tabular array art attempt to find the natural life inside the crude wood exteriors. Often the woods is encouraged to "move" —reform itself after carving to its ain unique expression.
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Ruby Solei Studio
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Molly Bowman and Kathleen Chamberlin of Ruby Solei Studio are a mother-girl duo. Kathleen creates colorful hand-painted earrings made on recycled cardboard cereal boxes whose contents have been eaten! Molly brings to life dwelling house decor utilizing broken or discarded fence / trim boards every bit a properties.
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Comb Mamma
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I make children's wear using repurposed vintage linens—sheets, table cloths, curtains. I have likewise recently started making women'south sleep shorts and aprons.
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Schell and Son Metalwerks
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We make tropical inspired Tiki sculptures and outdoor piece of furniture made out of recycled metallic. As a order, we are collectors of things. New things push out old things, which in turn creates and then much trash. Through creative eyes we tin can take some of these discarded things and make them interesting or cute in ways that they were never intended, or imagined for.
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Flake Iron Mike's
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I brand functional and decorative items out of bit metal. I find materials at bit yards, barn sales, structure leftovers, gifts from people who encounter my piece of work.
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Seiko Originals
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I create paper jewelry that is 1-of-a-kind blueprint from used greeting cards, used calendars, left over pretty wrapping papers and tissue newspaper, and the tags from whatsoever merchandise for newspaper jewelry. River rock are hand picked myself at the bank of the North Santiam river. I use acrylic pigment and tiny bead accents some time on them. They are varnished for finishing to protect weather.
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ShabbyKnapsack
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I make recycled/upcycled wearable from fully dismantled unwanted onetime article of clothing. Well-nigh of the garments are a true one size fits all. Among the one size items are wrap skirts, adjustable jackets and tops. I also make tops, jackets and fashions that are not a one size merely I alter for gratis any detail to any size.
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Skylinecreations
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I build repurposed industrial sculpture fine art, lamps, furniture, from antique fe & forest. My materials are sourced from antique reclaimed barn wood, subcontract and industrial iron from sales & auctions, flake yards, etc.
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somniative
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As a visual storyteller I create mixed-media fine art entirely from establish materials that combines anthropology, history and art in celebration of life, Beauty, freedom and joy. I cull fourscore% of my materials from sidewalks and city streets in my travels. The rest is donated or establish in austerity stores.
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Steampunkjunq
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I make cute one-of-a-kind, upcycled, recycled, vintage antiquarian watch parts jewelry. It is made but with vintage/antique watch, pocket watch, and clock parts. Information technology is mixed media jewelry— wearable fine art.
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Steelhead Metalworks
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I make metallic art for the domicile and garden. Three examples of my art: 1) I use old square nails, lag screws, drill bits, nuts, car hoods and bill of fare trunk metallic and pachinko assurance or ball bearings to make a variety of unlike sizes and designs of dragonflies. ii) I use expired steel Co2 and Oxygen bottles to make bells and gongs. The creative side of them comes from the one of a kind welded designs on the outsides and or paw braided and formed hangers on the tops. 3) I use discarded rebar pieces and other bit steel from industrial construction sites to brand trellises that are sturdy, artistic and will concluding decades in the garden.
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Stone Forest Rustics
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I use reclaimed woods and metal to make functional rustic habitation decor (mostly signs, wall hangings and yard art). I apply various manus and power tools to transform the reclaimed wood into pieces of art. I manus pick wood bursting with graphic symbol and rustic appeal. I can't stand the thought of these materials ending upwardly in the landfill. It gives me nifty joy to create unique reclaimed art to be enjoyed and appreciated by its new owner. Most of my materials are from onetime fences, barns and other finds.
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Studio Rynkiewicz
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I make diddled garden art decorations from recycled drinking glass using recycled glass reduces glass that is sent to the landfill. Making a new glass requires a lot of free energy and creates a lot of industrial pollution. One of the first steps in glass recycling is to beat out drinking glass and brand "cullets." Making recycled glass art from cullets consumes 40% less energy. My garden art is diddled from recycled stained window glass that I bought a couple years ago from Spectrum Glass Visitor in Woodinville, WA
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Sunnymirth LLC
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Sunnymirth creates handmade 1-of-a-kind whimsical animals & creatures, unique totes & bags, and personal & dwelling house accessories from recycled textiles and leather. I redesign and sew cast off /scrapped textiles into handmade soft sculptures, totes & bags, and accessories. I collect materials from charitable thrift stores and friends/ family. Additionally, I use scrap from an industrial manufacturer, a local awning company and wool mill.
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Sweater Heads
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I reimagine the possibilities of gathered fabric to create high quality, unique hats and accessories. I use color and texture to construct a archetype, timeless look. I gather sweaters and other article of clothing from resale shops, wash, dry, sort, cutting and stitch into my patterns and designs.
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Tashera Jean Art
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I brand recycled jewelry from antique watch movements, glass buttons, and paper ephemera. I also make robot sculptures and aggregation fine art from various found objects. Every item I blueprint, whether jewelry, domicile decor, and everything in betwixt, is made from recyclable materials whenever possible. I gather my materials from a host of sources including save yards, thrift stores, Habitat for Humanity, and oftentimes items found in alleyways and nigh dumpsters.
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The Light-green Gypsy
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Using recycled metals, tins chaplet and other plant objects I create jewelry. Later on 10 years, I at present have people giving me old stuff to use in my work. I as well become dumpster diving at the recycled metallic store... practiced will trash cans, etc. I am ever on the look out for recycled items.
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The Metallic Barbers
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We create metal g art. We employ recycled metals from different sources. We use recycled metal materials, scraps, garden tools, etc, that people may come across every bit trash. Everything nonetheless has some life left in it, no matter how big or small. We can even make custom pieces from your leftovers! Thrift stores, leftovers, garage sales. Yard fine art can be made from simply about annihilation.
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The Pacifik Image
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Married team who creates each component of our work. Nosotros make all of our chaplet, which are drinking glass beads from recycled glass. Most of our metallic piece of work, including plates, chain, cuffs, earrings, pendants comes from recycled metals (copper, sterling silverish, and bronze) that we mitt course. We likewise brand our stamping and chasing tools from old tool steel, such equally wrenches, bolts and metallic files.
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The Scarlet Penguin
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Using upcycled metals & diverse salvaged materials, I weld, bolt or wire pieces together to create abstruse, functional & whimsical designs. my artwork may be gratuitous-standing, hung on the wall or staked.
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Timely Blueprint & Decor
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I work with vintage and antique pocket watches, wristwatches, and clocks to create imaginative, ane-of-a-kind necklaces, earrings, and hair combs. My materials come from many places: Craigslist Free, old lookout shops, austerity stores, as well as leftovers from friends, family, and clients. Recycling (existence resourceful) is a continual source of inspiration to me... it's literally what provides me with the visions I work to create in my jewelry studio! Zip beats working with the gorgeous, ingenious, historic original watch materials!
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Totally Bent
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I pattern upcycled, repurposed jewelry out of diverse materials including old vacuum tubes, auto fuses, silverware, game pieces and more than. I likewise make comic book coasters from one-time comic books and tiles. With upcycled, repurposed jewelry, your accessories tin can be as unique and original every bit you are.
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Totem Studios
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My art is made from scrap metal and other found things. I source the metallic from work, scrapyards and anywhere I observe it.
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Transformations Glassworks
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I make functional fused glassware from 100% reclaimed glass. My pieces include candle holders, vases, bowls, plates, soap dishes and more. Each piece is unique, food-safe and dishwasher-condom.
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Transistor Sister
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Transistor Sis makes jewelry using a wide diversity of electronic components. From vintage and obsolete circuit boards to surplus parts that are too cool looking to let lie in dusty backroom bins, our jewelry is a celebration of electronic ingenuity and intricate dazzler. It's as well historic, fun and definitively geek chic.
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Treasure Mosaics
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I create fine fine art mosaics using recycled bottle glass, stained glass, pottery, jewelry, and found objects that inspire me. I am all-time known for my bottle windows which are made with vintage windows taken out of old houses and adorned with bottle bottoms, candy dish lids, candleholders, coasters and other recycled glass.
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Trial By Metal
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Jim and Ali Miller of Trial By Metallic are a father-daughter duo. They depict a change in their human relationship when they are welding or taking a blowtorch to metal because their minds meld with a cardinal purpose.
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Vested LLC
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I turn wood bowls and trays from recycled wood. I do non turn solid blocks of wood. My bowls are all either segmented octagon eight cord sections, or dodecahedron twelve chord sections glued to a flat solid base. Center sections of solid block are turned to scrap. My method conserves natural resources. Let me show y'all how this is done.
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Vicki Coe
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I take a love of vintage glass and combine pieces into thousand art (totems, bird baths, bird feeders, flowers, etc.). I store thrift stores, garage and estate sales. I honey unique glass patterns/pieces and practice my best to rescue them and artistically recreate glass pieces for the chiliad and/or home.
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Visionary Voltage
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Kyle Susan of Visionary Voltage makes upcycled and repurposed lamps and lighting. His dad ever had a passion for collecting and repurposing things. Later on he passed away Kyle started going through his treasures. Existence an electrician for over 30 years, i day the idea came to Kyle that he would take his dad'due south "junk" and brand lamps out of them.
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Wayne Arbour
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I make usable lamps made from piping, gauges, and an assortment of articles for shades. I likewise make wall hanger sculptures from metal or wood. Finished product represents fire artillery of the futurity. Finally, I brand walking canes from contrasted woods, topped with a variety of decorative metallic ex. horse hames. My fine art is made from found objects, flea marketplace finds, some austerity store items and a lot of dumpster diving.
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Wildash Works Folk Art
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I am a traditional folk creative person. I design and create soft sculpture pieces. I then pigment them using my interpretation of method used in the tardily 1800s called Poorman's China, to give my pieces a leather like cease. I repurpose vintage fabrics, linens and whatsoever kind of wood pieces in my creations. I as well make small glass hanging pieces using recycled glass from a frame store.
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Air current Spinners Garden and Thousand Art
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I make colorful wind spinners using recycled bicycle wheels. I collect used bicycle wheels from local Portland wheel shops and they serve as the middle for my wind spinners. I utilise scrap from gutter and air workout piece of work to cut the arms or petals for my spinners.
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Windy Hill Weavers
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Kathy Marty of Windy Hill Weavers uses two antiquarian floor looms to weave eco-friendly rugs from recycled Pendleton Mills wool selvage (the raw edges trimmed from Pendleton blankets) and cotton warp. Her rugs range from traditional, symmetrical designs to more contemporary, asymmetrical looks and from soft color combinations to assuming color mixes.
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Zephyr's Arts
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I sandblast images onto bottles, establish windows and other items to requite them new life. Sometimes I add solar or battery powered lights to the bottles to add a special focus. Lately I have been making " Wrist Toasties" from discarded, accidentally felted sweaters and scrap fabrics. They warm the wrists while leaving the fingers free to create! And my son, who is 11, creates origami earrings (so tiny) and origami dioramas from mag paper, bottles, and other throw abroad items.
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Zombie Couture
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Zombie Couture uses thrift shop shirts and silk screens them with whimsical characters created by Kelly Keigwin. We also practise some amending and applique to used clothing. Zombie Couture too features 2nd artwork made from reused wood, paper, records, pigment cans, and other materials.
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