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Win prizes at the Recycled Arts Festival

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Recycled Arts Festival Rocks! We're hiding special Recycled Arts Festival Vancouver "Rocks!" rocks around town... find one with a Recycled Arts Festival Rocks sticker on the bottom and bring it to the festival info booth for a prize!! Don't forget to snap a photo to post on our Facebook page ! Tossed and Found Raffle Help reduce wast...
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RAF Artist Spotlight: Scott and Jen Poverud

RAF Artist Spotlight: Scott and Jen Poverud
Scott Poverud has worked for Waste Connections for six years as a recycle driver for multifamily housing complexes, mostly in downtown Vancouver. Seeing all of the pallets getting chipped as hog fuel and burned for energy, he was inspired to save that material and make it into something that can be enjoyed by all. What started out as a few custom d...
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Jill Krumlauf

Procession of the Species: June Costume Workshops

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Upcoming costume workshops! FREE - all ages welcome. Join us at these free workshops where you can create your own mask/costume for the Procession! We will supply all the materials — mostly repurposed/salvaged materials that were destined for the landfill. Space is limited, so sign up ahead of time! Thursday, June 7th, 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM, River Home...
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Stephanie B.

How it all began: Interview with Sally Fisher

Sally Fisher at RAF 2017
Sally Fisher was instrumental in starting the Recycled Arts Festival in Clark County and has been coordinating the event for the past twelve years. We sat down to reminisce with her about the first Recycled Arts Festival and how far it has come. What inspired the first Recycled Arts Festival (RAF)? There was a group of people; we worked together as...
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Stephanie B.

Mother’s Day: Art with Heart

Mother’s Day: Art with Heart
Tissue paper bouquets, bedazzled toilet paper rolls, macaroni necklaces, and lots of paper smeared with colored crayons, markers, and paint. Perhaps you made something of the sort for your mother when you were a child or perhaps you've received such a gift from a beloved child on Mother's Day or another occasion. Adults' go-to gifts for these sorts...
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Stephanie B.

Is it Trash? Is it Art? Is it Useful?

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If you have creative kids, you probably have had boxes full of construction paper drawings, macaroni necklaces, Popsicle stick structures, towel roll telescopes, candy wrapper bracelets and various other creations. Eventually they pile up, they break, they're not useful, and so you throw them away. At least their life was prolonged for a little whi...
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Stephanie B.

Material Spotlight: Clothing

Material Spotlight: Clothing
Reweaving the Threads Upcycled clothing is more than a fad; it's something that addresses social and environmental injustices around the world. Americans throw away over 32 billion pounds of textiles each year. With clothes being made cheaper and cheaper, they wear out a lot faster. However, while some people throw away clothes because of a hole or...
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Wayne Deaton – Metal Creations

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Standing in a garage cluttered with buckets of iron rods, piles of rotary blades, and a vast array of rusty scrap metal, Wayne Deaton picks up a large metal wrench and says, "This will be a grasshopper." Pointing to tight coils of wire, he says, "Those are Wiener dogs." He pulls a handheld scythe out of a bucket and says, "What is this?" Running hi...
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Recycled Arts Festival

Sculpture Garden 2017

1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place Our Sculpture Garden Curator Joel Rupley, is a fabulous volunteer. Not only was the Sculpture Garden Joel's idea, but he's been volunteering to manage it for four years now! 
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Sculpture Garden 2016

1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place
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