We continue the series on walking Buffalo, from the intrepid couple who walked every day—no matter the weather—in the first 30 months of Covid. They think (without being systematic) they walked every ...
Take a small detour from the community path near Magoun Square and you may stumble upon “The Emerald City” — an intricate art installation made out of green glass, metal and other materials. This ...
One thing is a constant these days — we humans are regularly just going about our daily lives when we happen upon some weird little object and have absolutely no idea what it is. Lucky for us, the ...
An old water spout, a broken crutch and a beat-up toy gun might look like trash to most. But Terry Brennan sees art. Brennan is a found-object artist, most of his work coming from what others throw ...
Portland State University’s Archaeology Roadshow aims to make the historical past relevant through the examination of found objects. It started on the downtown Portland campus in 2012, at the same ...
Dawn DeDeaux, “The Mantle (I’ve Seen the Future and It Was Yesterday)” (2016–17), aluminum mantle with objects, and “Broken Mirror” (2017), transparency on convex mirror (all photos by the author for ...
Using found objects can be a way of expanding one's appreciation of life and art. Willis "Bing" Davis likes using discarded and recycling material as a way of expanding one's understanding and ...