Lecture on recyclables – from castaways to yard art
Published 5:01 pm Thursday, October 6, 2011
The Orcas Island Garden Club’s guest speaker on Oct. 19 will be Jason Darling, education and marketing coordinator for the RE Store.
The store is a community-based non-profit demonstrating the beautiful use of salvage in a Norwegian boathouse turned cabin. Darling has served as lead coordinator and visionary behind the non-profit’s Recycled Arts Show since 2005, partnering with museums, galleries and schools. He has trained art instructors and brought the mobile recycled art station to more than 25 festivals and events as part of the larger recycled arts program.
In a prior life, he applied his B.S. in environmental education in native plant ecological restoration service-learning projects and in his own garden. His enthusiasm in sparking reuse and creativity is being channeled into a book and video, “How To Be Creative With Less,” due out in 2012.
Darling will explore the beauty, whimsy and money-saving aspects of used materials as garden/outdoor decor. Be inspired with a slideshow of fences and screens, pavers/patios, arbors, creative planters, sculptural accents, water features and weird old unidentifiable things. The lecture begins at 10 a.m. in Orcas Center’s Madrona Room.
Go to www.orcasislandgardenclub.org for further information.
