We're so pleased to announce that the unveiling of our long-awaited TRASHformation sculpture at Nightingale Middle School went off without a hitch last Friday. Our participants helped dismantle the sculpture and carry it across campus to its new home in the lunch area. This location makes a perfect nesting ground for our bird since it ...
East LA can't get enough of TRASHformation We're excited to announce yet another TRASHformation program, this newest collaboration is with our new friends at Highland Park High School and is set to begin for the Fall 2013 semester. Earlier this week, we stopped by the school to check out the campus and had the pleasure of meeting ...
James Peterson is an LA based artist whose latest interactive art piece, Sessilanoid, was accepted into Art Basel, one of the world's premier art shows. James also happens to be a RuckusRoots collaborator; he's worked with us on many projects, big and small. This opportunity is one of the biggest in his artistic career and ...
Legacy LA TRASHformation Nearly Complete We're putting the final touches on the TRASHformation piece we've created with young adults from LA non profit Legacy LA, an organization that focuses on youth development. Its mission is to make positive interventions in the lives of young people by offering alternatives to gangs and violence. RuckusRoots partnered with Legacy LA to create a TRASHformation ...
We love springtime here at RuckusRoots, and this year is no different. Our taxes are filed, we've moved into new offices, and we're about to finish two wonderful programs that have kept us inspired and challenged for several months. The Legacy LA TRASHformation is well underway (see the beginnings of our sculpture, above), and the ...
We are very excited to announce a new partnership with another great Los Angeles non profit, Legacy LA. Based in Boyle Heights, Legacy LA focuses on youth development; its mission is to make positive interventions in the lives of young people by offering alternatives to gangs and violence. "We build youth's capacity to reach ...
A Taste of What to Expect at Highland Park's 'Taste of Highland Art' The senior class at Academia Avance in Highland Park have taken it upon themselves to produce a festival, appropriately called 'Taste of Highland Art,' where art, music and food come together in the hopes of giving folks a "taste" of what the Highland ...
One man's trash is another man's Nighthawk Things are moving right along at Nightingale MS in the D3 Lab these last few weeks. And we're happy to report the Nighthawk structure is coming to life as the kids continue to add more and more of the repurposed 'trash' each time we meet. These days, the TRASHformers waste ...
It's been an exciting week for our TRASHformation program at Nightingale Middle School. Along with collaborating artist Robin Banks, the RuckusRoots team erected the body, or "skeleton" of our Nighthawk sculpture. We visited the lab on Wednesday to assess the trash with Robin and Jennifer Cunnigham, the D3 Lab coordinator, and made a rough sketch ...
It was a perfect rainy day to work in the D3 Lab. On Thursday the students spent the time in the lab learning to take ordinary chip bags and turn them into decoration for the sculpture. Last week the kids discussed how the trash would be used to make the sculpture. After assessing what we had ...