Threads of Sustainability

Episode 8: One person's trash Can Be an Artist's Palette! Repurposing Waste into Beautiful Art


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The way plastic is managed globally is problematic. In some regions, less than 8% of plastics are actually recycled. The rest are sent to landfills to slowly break down into microplastics, or release chemicals into soils and watersheds. Natalya Khorover has embarked on using waste in her artwork. She has always been driven to be thrifty and using found materials in her art seemed like an obvious path.

Links from the show: 

Quilters Take a Moment: Quilt Alliance Event
beyondplastics.org

Natalya Khorover

Natalya is an artist who uses repurposed materials and she helps other artists who struggle with knowing where to start using these materials to achieve their creative vision. She uses meditative hand stitching and mending of vintage linen, alongside her industrial sewing machine to stitch and collage layers of translucent single-use plastics which would otherwise contribute to litter pollution. The transformation she subjects them to makes these materials unrecognizable.

You can find her here:

Website: www.artbynatalya.com

Social Media handles: 

  • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artbynatalya/
  • Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/NatalyaKhoroverArtist
  • YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ0ZWXG0nIeMLXfOgau360Q
  • Twitter: https://twitter.com/artbynatalya

You can find me, Bridget O'Flaherty - The Sustainable Quilter here:
www.bridgetoflaherty.com

Instagram: @thesustainablequilter
Facebook: @thesustainablequilter
Youtube: Bridget O'Flaherty The Sustainable Quilter

Music Credit: Thanks to Isaac Matthews for his incredible talent.
You can find and follow him on Instagram @hesjustakid for more of his music. 


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