Consider "poverty-fold" origami, which recycles all sorts of paper, 
public transit-tickets...

The late Vernon Isaac (1948-2009) created extraordinary things with 
NYC Metro cards, "including the internationally known 'Jake the 
Snake,' whose length was 50 feet, all done with NYC Metro Cards. Each 
segment used six Metro Cards." 
(http://www.origami-usa.org/memoriam_vernon_isaac)

OrigamiUSA can suggest other origami artists working  large-scale 
with recycled materials, including birds/flying dinosaurs/heavenly 
bodies for hanging from ceilings

Whatever you end up using in your show. poverty-fold origami would 
make a great family/school program (for example, if you'll forgive a 
little self-promotion,  my own Origami City: A Workshop in Everyday 
Creativity, which has participants creating their own folds to build 
a table-top city together).

Karen
Karen Reeds, co-ringleader, Princeton Public Library Origami Group

>rom: Grant Adams <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Sent: Sun, April 3, 2011 7:06:51 PM
>Subject: Recycled Art
>
>Hi all,
>
>I'm looking for an artist or artists who are known for creating 
>recycled or found art, especially for large spaces. If I can find 
>someone who has done large hanging sculptures it would  be even 
>better. Please let me know if anyone comes to mind. Thanks.


-- 
Karen Reeds, PhD, FLS 
Visiting Scholar, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania
Princeton Research Forum http://www.princetonresearchforum.org/
Guest Curator, Come into a New World: Linnaeus & America Exhibition,
American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia, 2007
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ 2008
http://www.americanswedish.org/linnaeus.htm
Exhibition guide available from 
http://www.dianepublishing.net/category_s/490.htm (p.4)

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