You might see junk, but Ray Whitcomb sees beauty. The owner of Junk Removed Now is a modern-day King Midas, turning abandoned materials like shovels, gears, desk lamps, license plates, tools, beer ...

Abby Henry is pictured with her recycled artwork, “Paper Plate Dress,” made with paper plates and sewing pins. Century High School students entered sculptures made from recycled materials into a ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky In the basement of Stephanie Hongo’s Southington home, there is an open bin full of ...

Humphries made these, and other sculptures, out of items that would normally end up in a landfill. He says ‘junk’ became his medium in college. He says he was already interested in art, and the only ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Deadfall and driftwood. Discarded scraps of steel. From such junk, artist Deborah Butterfield ...

Junk rarely equals trash for Tanner Sekavec, a 17-year-old West High art student. "There's quite a difference between junk and trash. You don't throw away junk," Sekavec said. "Junk is the stuff I ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — We all have stories of success or maybe overcoming challenges. Lexington artist Bob Morgan has spent decades using art to share other people's stories. He hopes his work will ...

If a single work by the Houston artist Jesse Lott best represents his approach to making art, it is perhaps one of his earliest pieces, Collage Man, from 1965. The black and white image­­, roughly two ...

Colorado Redneck Stonehenge at Copperhead Road Honkey Tonk and Saloon Hey art lovers, you are going to love this one. Colorado Springs city officials say three junk cars, erected to create a gateway ...

Al Nickelsen has steel in his heart and "nickel" in his name, and that’s a good thing, because he’s a metal sculptor and the artist behind Steel Nickel Designs. While some work to beat swords into ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chadd Scott covers the intersection of art and travel. In June of 1964, floods ravaged the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana ...