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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The original version of this story was published on New York Law Journal A self-employed carpenter must pay New York City a $2,000 fine for taking recyclable trash left on the sidewalk as raw material ...

Andrea Overturf is a symphony musician. But, that didn’t satisfy her creativity — so, she started making multimedia sculptures: upcycling things that many people might consider junk. Now her hobby has ...

In lieu of steel or aluminum, College Park resident Aaron Springer opted to make his own life-sized robot using a combination of boxes, bottles, bins, ribbons and TV remote controls to craft a winning ...

When you’re on top of the heap in the world of found-object-assemblage art, it’s quite possible you have actually seen everything. Consider sculptor Donald Lipski: When vacating his studio in an old ...

HARVARD — Walking around in a junkyard is not a job for an artist with a faint heart. Or a soft head. "You wait for something to hit you," Wayne Briner, an artist based out of Aurora, said while ...