New Avenue for Art on Trash Cans
Artists continually seek out new mediums to display their creative wares. For mosaic artist Ella Rhoades any space composed of exposed concrete is a potential space to show her skill in working with mosaics. A resident of Corvallis, Oregon, Rhoades noticed there was one place in particular that seemed to offer a great opportunity to mount such a display. That was on the surfaces of the 900 pound concrete enclosures that housed city trash cans. There were dozens of such contraptions scattered around town.
Her goal is to decorate 18 of them with mosaics. She has received the necessary approval to begin the project and is getting enthusiastic support from the community. For now, she is concentrating her efforts to enhance the receptacles along Third and Fourth Street. This will place her work in heavily trafficked locales where it will receive the largest audience by both pedestrians and drivers.
The Public Arts Selection Commission gave approval to the effort on July 26. The City Council is expected to follow suit. She first presented the proposal to the Arts Council on May 10. At a fund raising dinner for art projects on May 20, Rhoades reiterated the proposal and began receiving notices of approval from businesses and community leaders.
David Livingston is an enthusiastic supporter of the project. Livingston spent hundreds of hours designing the city’s trash receptacles. Nothing available through catalogues quite met the city’s specification so he used his engineering skills to come up with the design currently in use. He calls the mosaic plan, a “joyful, nifty thing” that will help to beautify the city.
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Fits the Space
Rhoades had to come up with a design that would neatly fit within the 28 by 10 inch space that forms the blank concrete space along the sides of the receptacles and conforms to the arched top as well. An array of brightly colored pieces of glass will be set into a mesh. The piece will then be ready for installation.
Rhoades points out that the project is collaborative in nature. She intends to take the materials to various events so that others may join in on the project. Bowls of glass bits, glue, a pattern mold, and the mesh will be brought to construct the mosaics at these various sites. Children seem to especially enjoy pressing the glass bits down onto spots of glue.
At the May 20 fund raiser, Rhoades received a grant of $450 to initiate the project. Since then she has received an additional $300 from the Celebration of Youth Art fund along with $100 from the Corvallis Fall Festival and $60 in supplies from a New Jersey mosaic products distributor.
Rhoades estimates the costs at $250 per installation. This covers the $50 cost of supplies and $200 for labor. With 18 receptacles initially to decorate, that comes to $4,500 for the lot. Each glass piece must be hand cut with glass nippers from sheets of stained glass. Rhoades is seeking additional funds.