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Rosemary Ponnekanti is the arts reporter at The News Tribune, and has been a classical music nerd nearly all her life. Besides spending way too much time in galleries, museums and concert halls, she occasionally brings a whistle or double bass to Celtic jam sessions, and insists on singing "Happy Birthday" in four-part harmony.
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Americans create the most trash of any country on earth. We make up 5 percent of the world's people, and create 40 percent of the world's trash. That's around 1600 lbs of trash per person, per year.
So what to do about it?
Well, one solution is to turn it into art. Gallery Madera is opening Tacoma's first recycled art show this Saturday (though you can sneak-peek Thursday night at ArtWalk), and the show--"re-ART '08"--has attracted 130 works from 30 artists. Submissions were then juried by Julie Bennet (Urban Xchange), Paula Tutmarc-Johnson (Two Vaults Gallery) and Rick Semple (artist and architect.)
The 22 selected artists are mostly local, and range from regulars like Jennevieve Schlemmer and Alice di Certo to Blue Hesikx, who's more often seen dancing with Barefoot Studios. There are artists from Port Townsend and Seattle, and Olympian Diane Kurzyna aka the Bubble Wrap Lady.
But maybe the most impressive work is a group effort: an American flag, made out of trash, by the kids in Mrs. Seberson's 3rd grade class at Washington-Hoyt Elementary School. (Bias disclaimer here: I'm a Wa-Hoyt parent, so be warned!)
As a class project, the students not only found out the startling details at the head of this post, but figured out ways to glue and hammer trash in red, white and blue onto a board that's close to full flag size. Bottle-caps, ribbons, paper--you name it, it's on there. Here's the video by parent and local ad maker Paul Blanchard about how they did it.
Says gallerist Carlos Taylor-Swanson:
“Our intent with re-ART is to bring about more public awareness regarding the masses of waste generated in our culture and to help foster a local community grounded in sustainability. If we can get folks to think more about all of the upstream waste generated to make our lives more convenient and to recycle everything possible, then this show will be a success!”
30% of all sales will benefit the Tacoma Food Co-op and the Sierra Club Zero Waste Committee.
Re-ART opens 3-7 p.m. Saturday at Gallery Madera, 2210 Court A, Tacoma. You can sneak a look from 5-8 p.m. Thursday, and thereafter see the show noon-4 p.m. Wednesdays-Fridays, noon-8 p.m. third Thursdays, noon-5 p.m. Saturdays through Nov. 29. 253-572-1218, www.maderawoodworking.com
