Reimagining Art, Reshaping Perspectives.
Throughout history, humanity has turned to the earth’s elements for tools and inspiration. From ancient cave paintings to contemporary installations, the materials we use to create art have evolved alongside our understanding of the world.
In recent decades, growing environmental awareness has inspired many artists to adopt sustainable practices. By using recycled materials or natural, renewable resources, artists reduce their ecological footprint while celebrating the beauty of these materials.
This movement aligns art with eco-consciousness, showcasing the power of creativity to drive change. By integrating sustainable practices, these works convey a deep sense of care for our planet, our resources, and our shared future. Resonating with biophilic design, they inspire spaces that nurture our connection to nature and remind us that art can be a hopeful path toward harmony with the world around us.
Making Art From Ethically - Sourced Materials
Jessica C.
Ethically Sourced Fiber Art
Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Jessica C’s fiber art is deeply rooted in tradition and sustainability. Using ethically sourced materials like cotton rope, wool, and hemp, she creates intricate pieces that blend texture, warmth, and movement. Guided by her grandmother’s weaving techniques, Jessica suspends hundreds of wool strands on meticulously crafted wood frames. Each piece is hand-dyed with plant-based and custom dyes, celebrating the natural beauty of the fibers while embodying her commitment to sustainability.
February
Art + Sustainability
Making Art From Eco - Friendly Materials
Sienna M.
Upcycled Fiber Sculptures
The most important part of Sienna’s art making practice is to be kind to the earth. How can she make art about nature if those art materials are harmful to the planet? Sienna is committed to using only upcycled fabric, organic kapok fiber, non-solvent adhesive, natural fiber thread, and eco-friendly paint.
February
+ Sustainability
Making Art From Yesterday’s Materials
Lisa
O.
Recycled Book & Paper Art
Lisa takes discarded books, yesterday’s newspaper, and other discarded paper and sews, collages, and folds them together to create an entirely new life for the materials.
“Book pages and papers are cut and folded into moments, then amassed into a story. Found materials natural or produced contain quirks and irregularities that convey an authenticity and provide visual and narrative cues that inform the decisions I make throughout the art making process.” – L.O.
February – Art + Sustainability
Lisa Occhipinti
Mixed media collage artist
Q&A
Your works incorporate natural and found materials like branches, books, fabric, and more. What draws you to these specific materials, and how do they inform the narratives and concepts in your work?
Materials form and support meaning. Found materials natural or produced contain quirks and irregularities that convey an authenticity and provide visual and narrative cues that inform the decisions I make throughout the process. Once I begin to see connections between these attributes, I tug a little on those tendrils, lengthening them to support and expand the concept behind the action. I am consistently amazed at how these scintillae arise and dovetail into an embodiment of an idea almost of their own accord. These things are seemingly outside my will, they are there for me to reveal so I am not imposing on the materials but working respectively with them. This results in work that describes rather than states, that suggests rather than tells.
Q&A
You work in labor-intensive processes that contrast starkly with the breakneck pace of today’s digital culture. How do you view your work within this cultural context? Does this context add different layers of meaning to your work?
As our ever-changing, always-new world we live in unfurls, it is very easy to lose sight of a greater arc of existing meaningfully within it. I believe making art making anything, really keeps us present and urges us toward a radical reliance on intuition. I rely upon this to sustain a balance of perspective and relevance, history and future. For my work, for my life. Against the backdrop of an unending streaming scroll, art slows the story down so we can think about what we are looking at, have an experience we can connect to and find our common humanity. The materiality of art, the curiosity of handmade objects, is part of this experience.
Q&A
A recurring theme in your work is interconnectedness, particularly the idea of “the tiny pieces that make the whole.” Can you elaborate on how this concept is reflected in your art?
I like looking under the hood, seeing how a thing is made and how the parts work in concert to make it run. When we look at a finished piece of art, we see its form and surface, but we also look through it, to its materials, so every stitch, every fold, every letter matters. Everything consists of smaller parts. Everything is cellular. This is part of its provenance, and origins are important because they reveal intention. Identifying links between the smallest grains and aligning them anew is to convey that everything is bewitchingly contingent and that there is always something new to discover if you look long enough.
ArtLifting
Art with impact.
ArtLifting empowers artists affected by housing insecurity and disabilities, offering a platform to showcase their talent and earn income while gaining validation, confidence, and vital resources. By addressing inequities in the workforce and art market, ArtLifting creates opportunities for traditionally underrepresented artists. Through representation and amplifying their voices, ArtLifting fosters connection, broadens perspectives, and challenges stigmas and stereotypes, sparking creativity and redefining what’s possible in the art world. By celebrating the power of art to inspire and transform, ArtLifting helps build a more inclusive and equitable future.
Charlie French
“Yes, I have Down syndrome, but first I want you to see me: Charlie French. Then I want you to see my ART!” Charlie works in his art studio daily, and his continued dedication is reflected in his beautiful, calming paintings.
Damiano is a Seattle-based mixedmedia artist and photographer whose vibrant, introspective work celebrates life’s contrasts, drawing from personal resilience and a rare health diagnosis to explore the beauty and fragility of existence.
Lindsey is a multidisciplinary artist whose work, shaped by her experiences with multiple sclerosis and neurodivergence, transforms her personal challenges into vibrant expressions of resilience, joy, and connection.
February
Art + Sustainability
Damiano Austin
Lindsey Holcomb
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