Reversing the rubbish in our TRASHED desert.

Re-Purpose

3D printed can cutter parts — We printed this tool at Create Center for the Arts to simplify obtaining aluminum sheets and discs from beverage containers. Download the files here: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/parametric-soda-can-bottle-cutter Watch the tool assembly tutorial here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T87IvQoXEGA Lots of cans were pulled post King of the Hammers at the Desert Cleanse Project camp-and-clean last weekend—even […]

3D Printed Can Cutter

February 23, 2023 in Cleanup Events / Re-Purpose / Recycling / Reuse / Tutorial

Re-think Representing Your Event With T-shirts The average citizen throws away 70 pounds of clothing and other textiles annually, occupying nearly 5% of landfill space and untold acres of our desert landscape when dumped in the environment. Be aware, unwanted garments can easily be donated to area charities at storefronts, […]

ReWear – The Trouble with Textiles

November 10, 2016 in Eco-Art / Re-Purpose / Recycling / Reuse tagged creativereuse / flophouseresoles / melissajacobs / rewear / secondhand / textiles / thrift / tshirts

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

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

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

Bulky items, those which can’t fit in a cart or weigh more than 100 pounds can be hauled away by appointment with a waste management service. The large fiberglass pieces we found were repurposed almost immediately by resourceful skateboarders looking to create a skate park of their own.

Intervention C – Bulky Item Re-Use

August 13, 2013 in Illegal Dumping / Re-Purpose / Reuse

The Forêt Intérieure/Interior Forest is a drawing of a forest, a shared dream. Based on an ongoing exchange with the iconic French author, poet, playwright and philosopher Hélène Cixous, Los Angeles-based artist Alexandra Grant’s multi-faceted project Forêt Intérieure/Interior Forest—encompassing a series of public drawing sessions, reading groups, artist collaborations and an installation at […]

Forêt Intérieure/interior forest

June 21, 2013 in Eco-Art / Re-Purpose / Recycling / Reuse

Vote for entry #26! DEHSART created a “Report Illegal Dumping” jersey design for the City of Palmdale’s Race to Art challenge in conjunction with the Stage 3 start of the eight-day Amgen Tour of California–America’s largest international professional cycling race. The jersey was made using an artistic textile technique that uses […]

Amgen Race to Art Jersey

May 14, 2013 in Eco-Art / Illegal Dumping / Re-Purpose

“Moving recycling from the cultural periphery and installing it in the cultural hub demands taking a life-long pledge to banish the notion of ‘WASTE’ and install the concept of ‘RESOURCE’.” -Linda Weintraub Art provides a unique platform for interaction with the public. Artists contribute in innovative ways to the well being of […]

Desert Engagement: Hinder Swill Achieve Recycled Trash

April 13, 2013 in Eco-Art / Re-Purpose / Recycling / Reuse