Arts Center Seeks Trashy Hot Fashions
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Oahu Arts Center has gone to the trash heap, so to speak.
The Central Oahu group will award cash prizes in a “Trash2Fashion” program in September as part of the city’s three-day Discover Recycling Fair.
The T2F exhibit and show will be presented once a day, Sept. 25, 26 and 27, at Blaisdell Center Arena.
The trash fashion show gives Oahu Arts Center exposure in a way that encourages creativity and won’t hurt its limited budget, explained member Elsha Bohnert of Mililani who is coordinating the contest. The OAC also sponsored From the Closet of ... , a benefit sale of recycled clothing donated by local celebrities and community leaders, held this summer at Honolulu Country Club.
To participate in Trash2Fashion 2008, people must create a wearable art costume from “found"objects, household and industrial discards, recycled clothing, remnants, rags or plant-based waste. They will either be on display at Blaisdell Center or modeled by their creators or other models at fashion show there.
“One entrant last year made a cocktail dress from coffee filters,“Bohnert recalled.“It was gorgeous. Another woman made a wedding dress out of those dryer squares, but they’re toxic so she got very sick.”
Safe trash fashioners should e-mail a photo of their costumes by Sept. 15 to Bohnert at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). She also has registration details at 627-1079.
“My house is like a museum of trash art, funky and colorful,” Bohnert admitted, laughing. She conducts workshops in her garage on revitalizing chairs with paint and how to create art books and journals out of junk mail. One book project “took a whole year,” she said,“but every page is a piece of art!”
A self-taught artist in a medium that draws more chuckles than “oohs"and “ahhs,“she has sold several pieces, been in shows and won the 2005 John Young Award for Freedom and Artistic Vision.
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