Consume Research
Research
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The Art of Recology
The Art of Recology is a program based in San Francisco, California. Recology is a different style of art that has artist using discarded items, a budget, and an gifted an incredible amount of space in which to create their artwork. It was created in the 1990’s with a 47 acre wide facility that deals with recycling. The programs main goals is to encourage already used materials to be reused, to support the bay area artists by providing access to the wealth of materials available at public dumps, to prompt people to think about their consumption practices, and to teach the public how to recycle and compost by having in person lessons.
https://www.recology.com/recology-san-francisco/artist-in-residence-program/
The Beehive
The Beehive is a volunteer group who are activists’ artists that create anti-copyright images used for use as educational as well as organizational tools. For over the past thirteen years, they have made collaborative pictures that circulate and are handmade over and over again by hand for each picture. Thus they said it gives each picture its own story and character to the pieces making each very special. The group has hit their first goal and are working hard to provide each backer with what they were promised and a small handwritten note from the “bees”.
ART FROM SCRAP CREATIVE REUSE STORE
The scrap creative reuse store holds pounds of reusable material and objects that are cleaned and ready to be used. It is all taken from local landfills every year. They give the supplies out for a low cost to encourage the reuse of materials in art. The inventory is update and stocked with new pieces daily. The do workshops for children as well as adults that allows people to start and finish projects, they host parties with fun activities, and a organized website showing further what they provide to the public as an organization.
https://exploreecology.org/art-from-scrap/
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Now not to repeat what has already been told, but earth has such a bad mindset of just wanting new things even though around their homes, they have perfectly good materials and tools just lying around. Though with most of these pages, they make it extremely apparent that they want people to look at recycled pieces in a different light as to no prevent people from getting new things, but to not necessarily get what may not be need at the time that is already out there or within arms reach.
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Discussion
Each one of these sources talks about using already used and recycled objects and materials for artistic ways. The groups focus on the conservation of the world as well as encouraging methodical ways for using pieces already in the world instead of going out and buying new things to clutter up the world further. Many of these groups also have goals to accomplish and further upon.
It is very inspiring to read these because most young artist or your general public person would buy new pieces of paper, new canvases, and usually untouched by others, people usually do not think about the possibilities of going to places that potentially hold good quality materials for low prices. On top of that, they hold community sessions that teach or help people in different manners of thinking. All this is great as it can still provide creative ways of producing artwork without feeling like your just using someone’s hand me downs.
Now not to repeat what has already been told, but earth has such a bad mindset of just wanting new things even though around their homes, they have perfectly good materials and tools just lying around. Though with most of these pages, they make it extremely apparent that they want people to look at recycled pieces in a different light as to no prevent people from getting new things, but to not necessarily get what may not be need at the time that is already out there or within arms reach.
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