TRASHformation K-12
Trashformation is an interactive art program that turns campus and community generated waste into a sustainably and collaboratively built art piece.
Photo by Monching Flores
TRASHformation aims to raise awareness about consumption and waste production while highlighting participant-driven community issues and encouraging participants to explore their own creative capabilities as artists. Our goal is to change the way participants think about their garbage, making it clear that trash can be transformed into treasure. The program also allows participants to explore and express themes affecting their local community, and provides a platform for discussing and tackling them on a grassroots level. TRASHformation teaches participants fundamental art, construction and sustainable building skills, and transforms solitary bystanders into a bonded and empowered community of “can do” activists, enthusiastically collaborating on a common goal.
TRASHformation in the D3 Lab at Nightingale Middle School
Above are images from a TRASHformation Program at the D3 Lab at Nightingale Middle School in Cypress Park, Los Angeles. Keep your eye on our latest blogs for details about this project.
TRASHformation at Legacy LA
RuckusRoots is partnered with Legacy LA to create a TRASHformation sculpture with fourteen at-risk youth from the project housing community of Ramona Gardens in east LA. Legacy LA’s mission is to make positive interventions in the lives of young people by offering alternatives to gangs and violence. This TRASHformation is a collaborative effort that reflects issues surrounding police-installed surveillance cameras in Ramona Gardens. Our piece explores themes of perspective: what the cameras see and what they don’t, the true Ramona Gardens (both positive and negative aspects) as seen through the eyes of our participants. Check out our latest blogs for details about this project.
