Kindergarten through Second Grade Artists
Artist: “Sunshine”
Grocery Bag Container
I used a recycled wipes container that was collected as litter on the ground in my neighborhood.
Artist: Benjamin L.
Robot Skateboarding Dog
My recycled materials are toilette paper roll, lids, and a cardboard box. I also upcyled spare buttons and a pipe cleaner. I picked up the lids from my school playground.
Artist: Isadora L.
Robot Monkey
My recycled materials are toilette paper roll, lids, and a newspaper. I also upcycled spare button, a pipe cleaner, and a pompom.
Artist: Zach
Recycle Bot
Description of materials used: plastic cups and paperboard.
Artist: MAX
My Name
Description of materials used: paper roll tubes, empty water bottles, egg carton, pipe cleaners. I collected my materials from our recycle bin and a grocery parking lot.
Artist: Tiger Den: Cubscout Pack 62
Good Knights
Tiger level Cubscouts (1st Graders) are asked to design and build a small castle using recycled material. This is part of the Good Knight adventure on citizenship, conservation, and service. For this project, they brought recycled material from home (mainly cardboard) and designed their artwork. In addition to food boxes and shipping boxes, they used discarded twine from someone’s garden, left over mask fabric, and reused old craft pipe cleaners to hold their flags. The castle includes a useable drawbridge and finely decorated towers.
Third through Fifth Grade Artists
Artist: NAT
Mini Elevator for Dolls
Description of materials used: kitchen paper roll tube, empty box of snacks, cord, construction paper leftovers.
Artist: Trinidad L.
My Neighborhood
I used lids, toilet paper roll, news paper, wrapping paper, brown paper bag, color paper, cardboard, egg carton, aluminum can. Also used as upcycling materials buttons and a bottle cork. Some of the lids were picked up from my school playground
Artist: Hayden
Christmas Bot
Description of materials used: cardboard box, paper, plastic bottle, paperboard.
Adult Artists
Artist: Saheeba V.
Newspaper Vase
Description of materials used: newspaper, cardboard box.
Artist: Maevey C.
Birds of a Feather Recycle Together
Artist Statement:
Creating these pieces was a lot of fun, and using recycled materials is always a challenge that has become a medium I absolutely love. Not only do I use recycled materials to make my pieces, but even my canvases are recycled- many of which I have found on the curbs of Bryan and College Station.
Submission 1: Blue Eyed Cockatoo
Each Feather was cut, shaped and strategically placed by hand then applied to a canvas using glue to create a beautiful textured effect. I found a huge book of Pantone paint swatches in a recycling bin on TAMU campus, and was instantly inspired to create art using the swatches.
Submission 2: Pair of Flamingos
In this piece, I also used paint swatches, cut and layered by hand to make this sweet couple nuzzling at sunset.
Submission #3: Toucan
Stunning toucan comprised of recycled materials found around College Station: buttons, beads, ribbons, straws, clothing size markers, lace, feathers, yellow ugly line, caution tape, a whistle, and netted bags that fruit came in.