ONCE UPON A TIME, THERE WAS A QUIRKY COUPLE WHO BOTH WENT TO ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL…

After spending years as cad-monkeys and staring at spreadsheets, we realized we had been duped by our design educations. Feeling let down by the corporate world and lack of opportunities for creativity, we left to pursue our dream of living slow and tiny.

For a decade we lived in our camper van while traveling state to state on the art festival circuit. We met folks from all walks of life, and spent many a night in parking lots and back country roads. We developed our aluminum can moving mosaics into carefully handcrafted transformations representing our progressive values and desire for effortless earth stewardship.

We have poured our creative hearts into being authentic, engaging, and entertaining social media content creators working with @TikTokForGood, @BallAluminumCup, and @DrinkSpindrift to inspire people to view waste as a resource while reminding them to treat the planet and everyone on it with dignity and respect.

More than anything, we want everything we create, but especially our moving mosaics, to help you slow down, take a deep breath, and notice the little things in life, so that you will feel less distracted by the troubles of our world, and more inspired to treat yourself and the earth well.

Connect with Hannah and Nemo here!

www.hannahandnemo.com

Instagram: @hannahandnemo

TikTok: @hnnahandnemo

Lindsay-Ann Chilcott is a multimedia artist and environmental activist living and working in Niagara Falls, Canada. Specializing in pop-surrealistic sculpture, Chilcott utilizes electrical wires and other discarded matter to explore the themes of consumerism, communication, capitalism, and the relationship between the physical and virtual worlds. She continues to explore how artists can develop ways of mitigating society’s consumption levels, while seeking ways to influence the contemporary discourse on upcycling. Through this, she confronts Earth’s pollution crisis.

Chilcott has exhibited internationally, including shows at Viridian Artists and the Salmagundi Club in New York City, New York, and the ARC Gallery in Chicago, Illinois. She has been included in solo exhibitions at the MIWSFPA Gallery in St. Catharines, Canada, and On Task Studio in Toronto, Canada. Her work has been featured in several publications, including The Working Artist magazine, and Digital America. In 2023, Chilcott received the People's Choice Award, at Impact: 2023, exhibited at the Neilson Park Creatives Centre, in Toronto, Canada. This year, she will be a studio resident at the Niagara Falls Exchange, in Niagara Falls, Canada. Upcoming shows include A Taste for Art, an International Juried Exhibition at the Sacramento Fine Arts Centre in Carmichael, California, and the 126th Annual Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Open Juried Exhibition, at the Salmagundi Club, in New York City, New York.

You can connect with her here:

Instaram- @lindsaychilcottart

Facebook- Lindsay Chilcott Art

https://www.lindsayannchilcott.com

The holidays contribute so much extra waste with all of their fun festivities. In this episode, I explore ideas that can help you be more intentional and sustainable during this time of year (and beyond!).

Read more about how the holidays contribute to waste in America-

https://neefusa.org/story/sustainability/give-gift-planet-reducing-holiday-waste#:~:text=The%20excess%20and%20indulgence%20associated,Thanksgiving%20meals%20across%20the%20US.

https://www.wastecostsolutions.com/what-is-the-most-wasteful-holiday

Julia Virginia Win is a watercolor and collage artist, a full time mother and former elementary teacher residing in central NJ. Julia is an avid upcycler and is passionate about the creative reuse of materials. Earlier this year, Julia won the Middlesex County Mural Design Contest. Julia currently has five public art displays: a mural at Raritan Bay Waterfront Park in South Amboy, an ArtCycle piece on the Middlesex County Greenway, a recycled art work at the Forum Theatre in Metuchen, a recycled art image used as a sidewalk decal in Highland Park and a sketchbook filled with reused materials on display at Princeton Arts Council. Her aim is for all people to observe art but most importantly, to view unused objects as valuable and worth seeing again.

Check out more on Facebook & Instagram @jvwcreates

Ashley Moen has been a recycled paper collage artist for over 11 years. In this episode, we discuss how she began her journey and found recycled paper collage art, why she enjoys the process and art form, and her plans going forward with her art.

You can connect with her here:

Instagram- @amoen.art

Susan cannot remember a time when she wasn’t creating. Art was her first language and is still her best form of expression. Her art education includes a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, and two years of illustration from The New York Botanical Garden, NYC. 

Additionally, she received a Master of Social Work from the University of Cincinnati. This education allowed Susan to achieve one of her proudest accomplishments of directing an art program serving individuals living with disabilities and dementia. Part of this program was also mentoring and teaching art and social work students who were vital to their success. 

After illustrating and creating graphic designs with traditional media and digitally for many years, Susan decided to get back to raw materials, branching into 3D using mixed media. She chose wine corks and other recyclables for many reasons. They are easy to obtain and an enjoyable challenge to work with, and she loves the idea of upcycling trash into beautiful art to keep material out of our landfills. There are countless things that inspire Susan, but one of the biggest influences on her work has been Zentangle. Since 2017 she has been practicing this meditative art form. The patterns inspired by Zentangle and from her own observations of nature and architecture have been vital inspirations in all media Susan creates with.

You can connect with her here:

www.susanbethstudio.com

Facebook- Susan Beth Studio

Instagram- @susanbethstudio

Bobbie Gray is a multidisciplinary artist from New Zealand with a strong focus on sustainability and environmental consciousness. Her practice spans sculpture, moving image, painting, installation, and curation. Bobbie Graduated from Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design in 2017 with a BFA, and since then has exhibited in galleries and festivals throughout New Zealand and abroad, with International exhibitions like Coventry Cathedral (UK) and The Medina of Tunis (Tunisia), Ukraine, and in Iran. 

Bobbie’s practice revolves around the intricate relationship between humans and nature, with a particular emphasis on the impact of waste and consumption on our planet's delicate ecosystems. Bobbie is particularly drawn to working with found and collected cast-off materials, especially single-use water bottles, by constructing them into blooms and immersive light installations that evoke wonder for our planet's precious ecosystems. For her most recent and ambitious installation, Bobbie transformed over 15,000 plastic recyclables into Kowhai Blooms, bringing to life a central city laneway in her hometown of Tauranga NZ.

Bobbie founded an artist-run initiative Comet Project Space in 2017, evolving into a pop-up gallery fostering community activations. She is also a member of Re-Use Collective [Regarding Use], a group of women artists driven by concerns for the environment, who choose to work with found and collected cast-off materials to highlight problematic aspects of current modes of production and consumption.

Where you can connect with her:

Instagram- @bobbiegrayartist

Facebook- Bobbie Gray

Website- www.bobbiegray.com

This episode is all about recycled art, or art made with recycled materials. Learn what it is, how it started, and how you can start creating it!