Eco-Art: Materials Recycled, Repurposed, Re-envisioned

Eco-Art Exhibition

From April 30th through May

31st, Artifact Design Group and

browngrotta arts will present an

environmentally themed art exhibition,

Eco Art: Materials Recycled,

Repurposed, Re-envisioned.

The exhibit will include works of

two types. The first group will

be works composed of natural

materials, including bark, branches,

pussy willows and porcupine

quills. The second will involve

everyday items, such as clothespins,

newspapers, encyclopedias

and safety pins, which have been

transformed into art.

The exhibit will feature work

by more than a dozen artists,

including Markku Kosonen a woodworker and basketmaker from Finland, Birgit Birkkjaer of Denmark, whose baskets

incorporate porcupine quills and Dorothy Gill Barnes of Ohio who creates "dendroglyphs" by scarring bark on trees scheduled

for harvest. Also included will work by California artists Gyöngy Laky and Karyl Sisson. Laky makes vessels of telephone

wire and sculptures that combine branches and nails and screws; Sisson repurposes domestic items like cloth tape measures

as art.

Eco Art: Materials Recycled, Repurposed, Re-envisioned will coincide with the Wilton Go Green Festival on May 2nd, in Wilton.

The Wilton Go Green Festival will be a town-wide day of education and exploration focused on energy conservation and

sustainable living. The event will offer in-depth information about energy and building, transportation, watershed, land and

food, and waste management. The festival will run from 11 to 4 p.m. and will have a series of workshops and exhibitors. The

Festival will offer a series of family friendly activities, in addition to Eco Art: Materials Recycled, Repurposed, Re-envisioned,

including bike rides, stream wading and a child-conscious yoga demonstration.

For more information, go to: www.wiltongogreenfestival.com

The exhibition will held be at Artifact Design Group at 2 Hollyhock Lane (Rt. 7), Wilton, Connecticut. The opening will

take place on April 30, 2010 from 4 to 7 p.m. For more information call browngrotta arts at 203-834-0623; www.browngrotta.com.