Reversing the rubbish in our TRASHED desert.

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Selections from the Waste Wonderkammer – An Archive of Deserted Trash While a Wunderkammer can be a flashy exultation of wealth, one can see the hubris of human consumption by following nearly any path off asphalt in the Mojave. Artist Karyl Newman has been mapping, photographing and collecting our consumptive […]

DEHSART.com & AVConservancy team up for Maiden LA Exhibit

July 20, 2018 in Eco-Art / education

Items rescued from the desert found their way into art projects at the Hi-Desert Nature Museum’s Step Into Art Family Fun Day.

Adapting Found Objects on Family Fun Day

August 31, 2016 in Eco-Art / education / Re-Purpose / Reuse

The Hi-Desert Nature Museum invited Karyl Newman of Dehsart to participate in their Family Fun Day, Saturday, July 30th from 10-3 at the Yucca Valley Community Center. With the help of our friends at Harbor Freight, objects collected at a recent cleanup have been cleaned and polished, ready for creative […]

Eco-art at The Hi-Desert Nature Museum

July 22, 2016 in Eco-Art / education / Re-Purpose / Recycling / Reuse / Uncategorized tagged creativereuse / harborfreight

As a result of connections made at Karyl Newman’s lecture at the Hi-Desert Nature Museum in March, she planned a collaborative cleanup of Giant Rock in Landers, CA to educate and foster appreciation of the historical site with partner trashfreeearth.org. Soon after, the Hi-Desert Nature Museum in Yucca Valley invited Karyl […]

Setting the Stage at the Hi-Desert Nature Museum

June 17, 2016 in Cleanup Events / Eco-Art / education / Re-Purpose / Reuse

On Saturday, June 11th, we will be working with our friends at TrashFreeEarth.org and the Bureau of Land Management to clean up the infamous site, Giant Rock, in Landers, CA. We will provide all supplies and instruction on screening for glass recovery, safe collection techniques, recycling tips and even historical […]

Cleanup Collaboration at Giant Rock

June 1, 2016 in Cleanup Events / Eco-Art / education / Recycling / Reuse / Uncategorized

We have some exciting news to share with you! Join DEHSART.com on Saturday, April 16 from 9am – 2pm at the Yucca Valley Community Center for a free Earth Day event. Check out the new EVENT page for all the details on this and future engagements.

April 16 – Earth Day Event

April 4, 2016 in Eco-Art / education

Gathered during travels to tipping sites around the desert, DEHSART’s collection of material samples demonstrates the variety and types of waste dumped in our environment. At DEHSART events, guests are invited to utilize the items in creating one of a kind art works through tracings and surface rubbings while considering the […]

Rubbing the Rubbish and Tracing the Trash

March 8, 2016 in Eco-Art / education / Illegal Dumping / Recycling

Abigail spoke up and the first community cleanup box has been installed adjacent to the vacant lots cleared of debris – all thanks to the Antelope Valley Illegal Dumping Task Force, Local Girl Scouts, Eastside High School Art Students and the City of Lancaster. We need your help to keep […]

First Community Cleanup Box Installed in Lancaster

October 14, 2015 in education / Illegal Dumping

hashtag your photos dehsart — The top #dehsart hashtag user during the month of October will win a one of a kind framed art piece and DEHSART swag bag! Celebrate the first DEHSART cleanup station box and inspire others by sharing your trash photos tagged #dehsart on Instagram! Simply follow these instructions: 1. […]

#DEHSART CONTEST

October 1, 2015 in education / Illegal Dumping / Re-Purpose / Recycling / Reuse / trash

Keep our Desert Beautiful. A large-scale clean-up event took place yesterday – a team endeavor with the City of Lancaster and Waste Management. All was accomplished because of an account by a local junior girl scout at a DEHSART event – in attendance with her troop and first of 50 girls […]

One AV Girl Scout’s Voice Sends a Clean & Clear ...

September 16, 2015 in education / Illegal Dumping

Karyl Newman gave a Take Action presentation to Los Angeles Area Girl Scouts to inspire them on their Journeys and help make an impact on our environment. Scouts were invited to help collect trash in their own neighborhood, report illegal dumping and bring a T-Shirt from home to customize with […]

LA Area Girl Scouts Learn About DEHSART

June 10, 2015 in education / Illegal Dumping

Taking a few minutes each day to fill a bag with trash helps make an impact on illegally dumped debris in our desert. An easy way to clean-up is to always have a bag with you. With help from our partners in Girl Scout Troop 9022, we showed scouts from […]

Make a Re-Usable Bag From An Old T Shirt

May 15, 2015 in education / Recycling / Reuse

We are big fans of Alyce Santoro‘s Sonic Fabric made of re-purposed cassette tape. We find cassettes and VHS media dumped in the desert all the time. After collecting a couple of e-waste-d tape players (thanks Jason!) we hacked the play heads. An illegal dumping bumper sticker holds the emulsion […]

ECO-SONIC

November 20, 2013 in Eco-Art / education / Re-Purpose / Recycling / Reuse / sound / trash

DEHSART set up a booth at the CalRecycle Used Oil/Household Hazardous Waste Conference held October 28 – October 31, 2013 in Sacramento to share our artistic approach to recycling and reuse of materials. The pop up display was created using repurposed plastic bags and newspaper, and featured the public artwork […]

CalRecycle UO/HHW Conference in Sacramento

November 13, 2013 in education / Illegal Dumping / Re-Purpose / Recycling

Intervention D by a landslide! Thank you to everyone who participated. We’re off to the editing room to feature this slogan in our PSA.

The Votes have been counted! And the winner is…….

September 19, 2013 in education / Illegal Dumping

Guest artist Kenny King. My first experience to the High Desert was in the mid 1970s with my mom & dad, and I wondered why someone would live here. A couple years later we moved to Desert View Highlands, west side of Palmdale. At the time it was small town […]

Progress?

June 3, 2013 in education / Illegal Dumping / Uncategorized