December, 2105- A TRULY ‘TRASHY’ ART EVENT
West Palm Beach, FL December 2015 – Resource Depot’s Guerilla A.R.T. Challenge is back for another round. Guerilla A.R.T. (All Reusable Trash) is a fun creative competition encouraging teams, young and old and all ability levels, to step up to the challenge and show their ‘up-cycling’ skills.
Resource Depot presents a live crafting competition Saturday January 9th, 2016 from 4-8:00 PM at The Brewhouse Gallery in Lake Park. Watch four teams of local artists and makers take on quick “On-The-Spot” craft challenges to compete for the title of “Extreme Guerilla A.R.T. ist”. Also added to the event for this round: a local Artisan Village for your shopping pleasure.
The event encourages people to create art from reused, excess, found objects, or about-to-be-discarded materials from Resource Depot’s expansive warehouse. Some of the items the artists can create with include paper, cardboard, wood, rubber, fabric, plastic, metal, bottle caps and Styrofoam. The goal is to create awareness and promote activism within the local community and especially to the younger generations by spreading the idea that yesterday’s rubbish can be transformed into today’s art.
Resource Depot also hopes to enhance education and appreciation of the arts and their impact on society. Overall, the concept is to preserve the environment by saving reusable materials from the landfill and improve humanity’s relationship with the natural world.
In each round, contestants will channel their inner “MacGyvers”, out-crafting each other using Resource Depot’s repurposed materials and their own wits, creativity, and skills. Teams will be given materials normally considered trash (like things from the recycling bin), and some tools to work with (tape, glue, etc.). Each team’s challenge is to transform these reusable items into artistic creations on-site during different timed challenges during the event.
Celebrity judges will be on hand to rate projects on artistic merit, technique, and utility. Categories to complete for include: Most Creative, Best Transformation of Raw Material to Art, Thematic Impact: How does the piece reflect back to the Reduce/Reuse/Recycle mission.
Save the date and get ready to grab a beer and get a front row seat for the extreme crafting at The Brewhouse Gallery, 720 Park Ave, Lake Park, and watch the glitter fly. Proceeds from the evening benefit the non-profit Resource Depot. If you are interested in entering this exciting event, please visit www.resourcedepot.net for further details and to fill out an application here. Deadline for application is by December 24th. If you have any questions please call Resource Depot at 561-882-0090.