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Re-Use Depots

• BRING Recycling      Eugene, OR
  BRING's Reuse Warehouse accepts reusable building materials and other household items donated by the public, contractors and businesses. These items are sold to the public at a huge cost savings over new. Also be sure to check out their What to do with everything else..." page - it's one of Eugene's most comprehensive list of recycling resources.
  
  
• NextStep Recycling      Eugene, OR
  NextStep accepts donations of computers, computer-related items, (including software and manuals) and financial support. They refurbish computers and place them with people who don't normally have access to this technology. The extra reuseable items are sold in their Thrift Store. Materials they receive that aren't usable are dismantled and recycled for their metal and plastic content in an environmentally responsible manner.
  
  
• SCRAP (School and Community Reuse Action Project)
  Portland, OR
  
• ReBuilding Center
  Portland, OR
• Cart'm Recycling
  Manzanita, OR
• SCRAP (Scroungers Center for Reusable Art Parts)
  San Francisco, CA
• Building Resources
  San Francisco, CA
• East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse
  Berkeley, CA
• Urban Ore
  Berkeley, CA
• Arcata Community Recycling Center, ACRC
  Arcata, CA
• Second Use Building Materials, Inc.
  Seattle, WA
• Recycle For The Arts
  New Orleans, LA
• Recycling for Rhode Island Education
  Providence, RI
• Arts & Scraps
  Detroit, MI
• Materials For the Arts
  New York, NY
• Reverse Garbage Consultancy
  Marrickville, Australia
• Reverse Garbage in Brisbane
  Brisbane, Australia
• Remida: The Creative Recycling Center
  Italy

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Sites with project ideas and instructions

• The Imagination Factory
  A wonderful site with lessons/activities and a "Trash Matcher" that lists art and recycling activities for all sorts of trash.
  
  
• craftster.org
  An encyclopedic forum for crafty do-it-yourselfers. Ideas for silk-screening, stenciling, sewing, beading, scrapbooking, weaving, felting, and pretty much everything else.
  
  
• Art on a Shoestring
  Great recycled craft ideas for young children, including magazine mosaics, milk carton houses, tin punching, handmade paper, etc.
  
  
• About.com "Trash to Treasure"
  Has lots of good ideas for crafting with common household discards (bottle caps, cans, jars, etc.), but you have to wade through plenty of advertisements.
  
  
• getcrafty: home of the craftistas
  A forum for craft activists. Features project ideas, forums, feminist musings about domesticity, more.
  
  
• Artists Helping Children: Kids Arts & Crafts Ideas & Projects
  This page includes a long list of links to various art projects for kids. Includes a section titled "Recycle Items Around the House - Trash to Treasure Activities for Children" (about halfway down the page).
  
  
• craftzine.com
  By their own assertion: "The first project-based magazine dedicated to the renaissance in the world of crafts."
  CRAFT 101: Silk-Screening
  Simple instructions from craftzine on how to "print your designs on anything you can hang, wear, or tote."
  
  
• Whipup.net: Handbound Journals
  A great tutorial for making handcrafted books, with photos. Check out the rest of the Whip Up site, too! Their fabulous tagline: "handcraft in a hectic world."
  
  
• HGTV's Junk Brothers
• http://www.artmuseums.com
• http://www.makestuff.com
• http://www.dltk-kids.com
• http://www.kid-at-art.com/htdoc/creative.html
• http://www.readymademag.com

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Sites with cool examples of recycled art.

• Red Semilla Roja: Activist Artists Network / Red de Artistas Activistas
  A "network [for] people who are using art and craft to create positive change in the world." Home of "Tossed & Found," a traveling show of reuse art and craft. No photos of the actual art - but read through the site for some interesting thoughts on fomenting social change through art.
• Secondhand Saints
  Eugene's own Ruby the Resourceress makes all sorts of hip jewelry out of reused bottle caps!
• Loose Muse
  Mixed media art of Mija Marie, Eugenian artists and MECCA workshop instructor!
• Twisted Spokes
  Eugene's own alternative chopper bike, rat bike, and freak bike club. They build fascinating 2-wheeled vehicles out of "junk" bikes and spare parts from BRING, Goodwill, and whatever.
• Patchwork Press and Field Day
  Lots of cool examples of re-used clothing, modified and screen printed by hand.
• Spoonman Creations
  Who knew that you could make so many things out of Goodwill silverware? Portland-based Mike Kelley touts his fantastic wares on this site.
• Trash Transformations
  "Transforming Trash: Bay Area Fiber Art" features 38 pieces that show how the imaginative eye can see trash as treasure.
• Aluminous Publishing
  Designing Patterns and Instructions for Aluminum Can Crafts. They also have an extensive listing of other recycled artists here.
• Wardrobe Refashion: A Recycling Revolution
  A neat blog with discussion and pictures of re-fashion projects.
• Wardrobe Refasion (Flickr)
  Lots of pictures - and discussion - of re-fashion projects.
• Canstruction: 13th Annual NYC Design/Build Competition
  Architect and Engineers competed to see whose team could build the most spectacular structure using little more than cans of food.
• La Loba Creations
  Creating "custom 'objets d'art' from your tired old stuff that needs rejuvenation."
• About Rosalie Gascoigne
  Information and photos of the work of Rosalie Gascoigne, an Australian sculptor who shot to late fame at the age of 57 for her poetic assemblages of eclectic found materials.
• Remade in America
  Makers of wearable art "founded on the idea of finding creative ways to minimize textile waste through reusing, recycling, renewing and recreating articles of clothing."
• Sweetiepurse.com
  Handbags produced in Mexico out of recycled materials.
• Haute Trash
  This troup of resourceful artists produces runway fashion shows featuring haute couture made from society's trash.
• Chopstick Eco-Art
  Furniture and more made from salvaged chopsticks.
• Orange Show Center for Visionary Art
  Art Cars & more
• Interesting Ideas
  Roadside Art, Outsider Art, etc.
• VisionaryArt.com
  A home for what is commonly known as Folk Art, Outsider Art, or Self-Taught Art.
• eco-artware.com
  Gifts made from recycled materials: telephone wire bowls, key rings from traffic signs, money clips from motherboards; much, much more.
• John Dahlsen, environmental artist
  Environmental, recycled, assemblage art, abstract paintings, installation and public art.
• Margaux Lange, unique handcrafted jewelry
  Jewelry made from old Barbie dolls.
• Tiffany Tomato Designs
  This little outfit in Ann Arbor, MI collects junk like misprints and overruns, wine corks, and mint tins, and turns them into art!
• Focused Bags
  Bags made out of broken skateboards - how hip!
• Freeman Loughridge: Sculptor
  "Recycling The World One Sculpture At A Time.".
• 3-D Eddy: Junk Art Sculptor
  Heada, Hoopti, Shizzle, Nizzle.
• Art History on About.com
  Links to art history for kids.
• Chris Jordan: Photographic Arts
  Okay - this isn't recycled art, but it has some fantastic and shocking photographic portratis of mass consumption in America. Just looking at these photos will make you think twice about buying that next bottle of soda!

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