Floridian Artist Dale Wayne (when it comes to recycling glitter is the new green)
This summer, from June 23, 2012 – August 26, 2012, guests are invited to Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center (Annmarie Garden) to participate in the summer public art project with Artist-in-Residence, Dale Wayne! Help create Dancing on Joy’s Horizon, a glittery forest of bottle blossom trees made from plastic bottles salvaged from the Appeal Landfill. The bottle blossom trees will grow over the course of the summer, as guests of all ages add their painted and glittery blossoms to five 8’ trees.
Annmarie Garden’s Artist-in-Residence Program provides a serene place on the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay for visual, musical, and literary artists to create works that address ecological issues and/or inspire community involvement. Artists have access to a private studio space, in addition to a variety of classroom studios and garage spaces, a waterfront, and fifty acres of forest and field.
Residencies focus on merging the arts and the environment that includes the involvement of the local community. Artist Wayne, a world traveler, who now resides in Florida, is fueled by the unexpected and embraces the opportunity to involve the public. “I love the transforming power of play and how people of all ages and abilities are moved by the process of turning ‘trash’ into something that will be celebrated as art. The glitter, silly as it sounds, draws people into the process and everyone goes home a little more sparkly.” Guests can participate in the growing process of these delightful trees, painting, decorating, cutting, and glittering will be involved.
Wayne developed her technique of cutting, painting, and heating plastic bottles in 2004 while teaching art classes in Orlando, Florida. “I was working in glass and was trying to figure out a way to translate that medium into a classroom setting. My dad, who is a sculptor, showed me how he was able to manipulate plastic to make armatures, to support the material he was working with at the time. I wondered if I could paint plastic bottles and use heat to make them take on a glass-like quality. It wasn’t long before I had a classroom of students diving into the project and going home in glitter from head-to-toe.”
The works Dale Wayne include an Earth Day installation for The Orlando Museum of Science, a poolside tower for a Home and Garden Television (HGTV) design program, award winning Christmas trees for The Orlando Museum of Art’s Festival of Trees, and an installation titled, “The Trees of Life Reclaimed” acquired by the Kent County Michigan Recycling and Education Center. Wayne has been featured in magazines, newspapers, television, and has publi
