recycled art

20 Sculptures That Upcycle Your ‘Cycle

By Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy S Cook

Jeremy is an engineer with 10 years experience at his full-time profession, and has a BSME from Clemson University. Outside of work he’s an avid maker and experimenter, building anything that comes into his mind!

View more articles by Jeremy S Cook

Bikes on walls, stools made out of bike parts, pyramids, domes, fences, and more! There’s a lot of arty ways to give a bike a second life.

Continue Reading

How-To: Birds on a Wire Recycled Art

By Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

View more articles by Haley Pierson-Cox

I adore art pieces that are made using creatively recycled materials, and this birds on a wire recycled art tutorial from Katy at Sweet Verbena is so cute! If my husband made me something like this for Valentine’s Day, I’d be one happy lady. Just sayin’. [Via Crafting a Green World]

Continue Reading

How-To: Cardboard Wall Art

By Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox

Haley Pierson-Cox from Red-Handled Scissors is a maker of crafts, a lover of cats, an avid swearing enthusiast, a cross-stitch book author, and a general purveyor of quirk. She's also sometimes an irritable cartoon named Tiny Cranky Haley. https://www.redhandledscissors.com

View more articles by Haley Pierson-Cox
2

I am forever underestimating the craft potential of the simple cardboard box, only to have my mind consistently blown by the creativity and resourcefulness of others. This recycled cardboard wall art tutorial from Bon Temps Beignet looks so clean and modern that it’s easy to forget that it’s actually made out of discarded paper! Head […]

Continue Reading

Reuse Art Exhibit Online

By shawnconna

shawnconna

Sometimes helpful editor and digital media director at MAKE and CRAFT.

View more articles by shawnconna

Longtime CRAFT and MAKE contributor Annie Buckley has curated an online art exhibit on the venerable HuffPo. On Seeing is a great collection of emerging and established artists from around the globe, all using ordinary, every day items — Popsicle sticks, paper strips, soccer balls, patrol uniforms, grocery bags, vintage clothing, traffic lights — to […]

Continue Reading