Triangle Cabinet  2014  NFS
48″W X 42″T X 24″D
Mixed Media, NE Minneapolis 1920’s fence,
antique hinges, dynamite box, solid brass Kohler parts, Con Man Print

This cabinet was designed for a difficult under screen triangle corner and was created using rescued objects from the streets of Minneapolis, wooden dynamite boxes, stained glass, Kohler brass, 130 year old aged fence wood and architectural salvage warehouses. The carpentry is very skilled and finished and all is sealed in matte boat epoxy for durability and a clean non-shedding surface. Many one-of-a-kind details including original art work. I am eager to use YOUR objects for a custom made art work.  .Many one-of-a-kind details including limited edition print Con Man Print

Eager to incorporate your historical power/memory objects.  Click to enlarge details.

Tile Table
24″ X 24″ X 24″
Pour tiles and Re-cycled wood. Sealed with epoxy
$200.00

In collaboration with author , Kit Rocha,  https://www.kitrocha.com/these tables save the landfill and make your space interesting with visual engagement. Social Practice Art https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/barbara-bridges/
Barbara Rogers Bridges, Ph.D., drb@bridgescreate.com 612 845 0416      Director-Art To Change The World info@arttochangetheworld.org  www.arttochangetheworld.org

Tile Stool
24″ X 24″ X 24″
Pour tiles and Re-cycled wood. Sealed with epoxy
$75.00

In collaboration with author , Kit Rocha, https://www.kitrocha.com/  these tables save the landfill and make your space interesting with visual engagement. Read More:  Social Practice Art https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/barbara-bridges/
Barbara Rogers Bridges, Ph.D., drb@bridgescreate.com 612 845 0416      Director-Art To Change The World info@arttochangetheworld.org  www.arttochangetheworld.org

Wood and Glass
36″ X   12″ X  48″
Mixed Media, rescued wood, metal and glass

Created from our Mill City (Minneapolis)  factory artifacts. Sealed with matte boat epoxy for durability. There is something so satisfying about making these objects. This stand is very elegant with a glass top. Perfect for entryway, table lamp or books.   Appeared in  Found In Our Water WARM (Women’s Art Resources of Minnesota) , Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mill City Museum.

Fleur-de-lis Stand 
12″W X 24″ W X 48″ T Mixed Media. Rescued wood from 100 year old fence in NE Minneapolis, faucet, found wood and metal objects, ornamental screws, boat epoxy.

The furniture created in the studio has a steam punk look to it.  Although sticking to very formal elements and principals of design, the  stand appears to have been created by objects found in an abandoned home.  Some were.

Engineering these rescued objects together to create a beautiful and functional art work is profoundly satisfying to me on a very visceral level.  My commitment to living a considered life and returning objects to circulation, and not to a landfill, is an important objective.

All furniture is sealed with a boat epoxy and then a matte polyurethane is my compromise to insure your object is indestructible and does not “shed”. …remains contained…what? Appearances : Found In Our Water WARM (Women’s Art Resources of Minnesota) , Minneapolis, Minnesota, Mill City Museum. 

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  Mail/Bills/ Card Holder
18″ W X 6″ T X 6″ T
Mixed Media, 100 year old fence, antique Grain Belt bottle caps
$90

What could be more metaphoric than saving these objects from a landfill to hold your mail and bills- if you are still receiving mail and bills!

Sculpture Stand
22″ W X 50″ T
Mixed Media, 100 year old fence, brass and copper findings, cabinet screws
$160

This interesting stand is the perfect base for  an elegant sculpture.  Distressed with silicone and  sealed with matte epoxy to avoid shedding.

Display Table

26″ W X 36# T 
Mixed Media: Antique table, brass fittings and unique bird feet. 
$125

This table has a very  medieval vibe  with unique bird feet and sealed with two part epoxy for sustainability and to avoid shedding.

Up-Cycled Chairs

10,000 Lakes and 1 Mighty Miss  2012

NFS  Similar $250-$450In the artwork “10,000 Lakes and 1 Mighty Miss” I employed a
methodology I call “recordari”, from the Latin “to remember, call to mind (re-restore and cor,
genitive, cordis heart, understood by the ancients as the seat of judgment and memory” I would
like to identify “10,000 Lakes and 1 Mighty Miss” and artworks like it, as representing our “lived experience” in visual form. I suggest we are practicing “recordari”. as “10,000 Lakes and 1 Mighty Miss”takes you on a journey which explores and records all the waterways I have visited in Minnesota. My adventuring was particularly soulful since I am a Maine native and a Franco-American. I have called Minnesota home for 17 years.  Maine claims Paul Bunyan as their native son. Imagine how curious  I was to view the Paul Bunyan sculpture residing in Bemidji, where the university
I have worked at for a decade is located!Read More Appeared at Art-A -Whirl 2013.
Appeared and won an award at the Minnesota State Fair

Mainer-with Love

22″ W X 2 2″ W X 48″ T  Mixed Media  Canvas, rescued chair, shells, rope, buoy, hand hooked pillow  2011
NFS  Similar $250-$450

The creation of Mainer was a five year labor of love.

The oil painting of  the Heritage Schooner was inspired by the needlepoint  chair backs I have enjoyed viewing at the Searsport Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine.

The pillow was a wool hooked rug pillow  created  by a Castine, Maine rug maker and the buoy came from my lobster people family in Stockton Springs.

The lobster claws  are from three pound lobsters I buy, dry and clean using ant helpers.  When “cured”, I seal them in boat epoxy.

The large rope comes from local boat yards and found on the beaches I walk from Kittery to Eastport.

Sit on this chair and you will hear the oceans.

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LatinO/A

2′ x 2′ x 4′  Mixed Media, Mexican artifacts and icons, rescued
chair, retablo, fabric, beds, shells, mop, paint  2009

NFS  Similar $250-$450

My academic specialty is cultural iconography -sometimes called art. I have spent the last 35 years traveling in
Mexico and looking at how the Mexicans express themselves with symbols.

It has been a fascinating journey  which has influenced the way I currently live my life.

LAtinO/A honors some of those spiritual and secular images which I found in my travels.

I always include a little whack -to-the-head in my art. You deconstruct the mop.

Appearances  NEMAA Opening September 19,  2014   Click to Enlarge