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Drea Rose Frost, left, and Jeremy
Furnish’s wife Mandy Furnish, look
through a dumpster at the Recology
offi ce in Warrenton for materials to use
in its artist in residence program.
Colin Murphey/The Astorian
Trash, reclaimed
Artists make art from discarded objects
By PATTY HARDIN
FOR COAST WEEKEND
‘E
verything Old Is New Again.” The
words to this song by Peter Allen,
and from the movie, “All That
Jazz,” might come to mind when you con-
sider the artists selected for this year’s
Coastal Oregon Artist Residency program
will create works of art from discarded
objects gleaned from the Recology Astoria
Recycling Depot and Transfer Station.
The annual Recology Western Oregon
and Astoria Visual Arts residency pro-
gram, now in its fourth year, supports
repurposing discarded material into works
of art.
Artists Drea Rose Frost of Cannon
Beach and Jeremy Furnish of Clatskanie
were selected for the four-month resi-
dency out of 11 applicants, the highest
number ever of people who applied.
The program brings a whole new
meaning to dumpster diving.
“I’ve been dumpster diving for 20
years,” Furnish said.
From left:
Mandy Furnish,
Drea Rose Frost
and Jeremy
Furnish jokingly
grab a shopping
cart to look for
materials at
the Recology
Astoria Transfer
Station as part
of the artist
in residence
program.
Colin Murphey
The Astorian