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UW-Superior finds an art to garbage
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Story posted Sunday at 2:39 p.m. 5/25/2008 |
UW-Superior has taken a creative approach to meeting the President’s Climate commitment. Tegan Wendland reports from Superior.
The UW-Superior Campus Sustainability group has developed a program to supply art students with supplies in an environmentally friendly way. It’s called “The Art of Garbage”. UWS art student Jessica Manderfeld came up with the idea. She says it’s a great way to recycle things like paper, broken toys and fabric. “The Art of Garbage is a program that takes regularly discarded materials, forgotten materials, and flops it into perfectly usable materials for artists. Artists have a natural way of seeing different beauty, in perhaps even a milk jug cap that a typical person may just discard. This is just providing a place where all that stuff to be collected and turned into viable sources for students.” Manderfeld has taken the time to paint an elaborate garbage mural because it’s important to create and artistic and comfortable atmosphere. UW-Superior Sustainability Director Janice Crede says this is just one of many steps being taken to meet the Bush Administration’s Climate Commitment. Crede expects the program to be very popular. “I talk to students all the time and one of their issues is trying to come up with different mediums, and college students don’t have a lot of money so we would be recycling your traditional art supplies but also stuff that would otherwise be thrown away, end up in a landfill, that sort of thing. And they can come up with some creative stuff – and beyond that, maybe even a recycled art show.” The Art of Garbage is scheduled to open in September. The “Art of Garbage” is located in the basement of Old Main and will be a pick-up and drop-off point for recycled materials used for art projects.
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