Objects wash up on Oregon Coast, become art
BANDON, Ore. - Plastic bottles, old flip flops, a pair of dirty socks -- to the naked eye, these objects do not art make.
But for Bandon artist Angela Haseltine Pozzi, they're the best tools to work with.
"I started working more and more with things off the beach and attaching sea creatures to them," says Pozzi.
During her daily walks on the beach, Pozzi says she began finding more and more trash washed up on shore.
Instead of sending it to a landfill, she decided to make art out of it, and so began the "Washed Ashore Project."
"It's really about trying to save the ocean in a grassroots kind of way. I''m asking the community to, when they walk on the beach, to pick up what they find."
For the next few months, Pozzi is hosting free community workshops from her art gallery in Bandon, encouraging the community to get involved not only in cleaning up area beaches, but creating art.
"I will teach them how to use the tools of the arts, how to transform garbage into beauty. By doing that, hopefully we'll get people excited about picking stuff up off the beach and start thinking differently."
Pozzi says the art created from these workshops, will be part of a traveling exhibition around the state, and she hopes one day around the world.
But she's not stopping there.
"We're also doing a documentary film about this," says Pozzi.
She says in the end, she hopes she can educate the public about what's happening with our oceans.
"By doing a visual representation of what's happening, it puts it front and center. More people will start thinking, what can i do to help."
For more information or to get involved with this project call Art 101 at 541-346-9123.
The free workshops are held every Tuesday from 6 to 9 p.m.
But for Bandon artist Angela Haseltine Pozzi, they're the best tools to work with.
"I started working more and more with things off the beach and attaching sea creatures to them," says Pozzi.
During her daily walks on the beach, Pozzi says she began finding more and more trash washed up on shore.
Instead of sending it to a landfill, she decided to make art out of it, and so began the "Washed Ashore Project."
"It's really about trying to save the ocean in a grassroots kind of way. I''m asking the community to, when they walk on the beach, to pick up what they find."
For the next few months, Pozzi is hosting free community workshops from her art gallery in Bandon, encouraging the community to get involved not only in cleaning up area beaches, but creating art.
"I will teach them how to use the tools of the arts, how to transform garbage into beauty. By doing that, hopefully we'll get people excited about picking stuff up off the beach and start thinking differently."
Pozzi says the art created from these workshops, will be part of a traveling exhibition around the state, and she hopes one day around the world.
But she's not stopping there.
"We're also doing a documentary film about this," says Pozzi.
She says in the end, she hopes she can educate the public about what's happening with our oceans.
"By doing a visual representation of what's happening, it puts it front and center. More people will start thinking, what can i do to help."
For more information or to get involved with this project call Art 101 at 541-346-9123.
The free workshops are held every Tuesday from 6 to 9 p.m.
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