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3 <br />that cultivate endangered flora while utilizing the landfill gas. More information is available at: <br />http://www.energyxchange.org/energyxchange-story <br />Ohio Valley Creative Energy is a grassroots nonprofit whose mission is to engage the community <br />with fire art through the use of landfill methane. The fire arts include ceramics, metals, and glass. <br />A wonderful clay animation, produced by a local middle school on YouTube, describes the <br />inspiration behind the project at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlXwNqnaGvg Further <br />information is available at: http://ohiovalleycreativeenergy.org. Afterschool programs are <br />described at: http://ohiovalleycreativenergy.org/wp- <br />content/uploads/2009/01/OVCE_After_School_Programs1.pdf <br />Recology’s Artist in Residence Program uses its Bayshore site as a sorting facility for the <br />recycling, waste, and compost that it collects from most commercial and residential areas in the <br />Bay Area. Six artists every year are invited to root through what Bay Area residents have <br />discarded to give thrown-away items one last chance for use before they’re recycled, composted, <br />or sent to landfill. Terry Berlier, an assistant professor in the Department of Art and Art History <br />here at Stanford, just finished her residency in January. Her artwork for Recology’s first of three <br />shows for the year were eclectic, nuanced, and simply beautiful pieces with a relevant social <br />commentary on consumerism and unsustainable design. Further information is available at: <br />http://www.stanford.edu/group/suss/cgi-bin/main/blog/?p=4787 <br />Landfill Art is an international effort where 1,041 artists are turning automobile hubcaps from the <br />1930s-1970s into works of art. Each finished piece is being called a “metal canvas.” Most are <br />painted with oil or acrylic paint, while some have been weaved on, glued or screwed or welded <br />to, or made into fine sculpture, according to the website Landfillart.org. Eventually, Landfill Art <br />founder Ken Marquis hopes to publish a pictorial book on the project, showcasing all the metal <br />canvases; then, he plans to choose 200 metal canvases for a traveling show that depicts the value <br />of repurposing things in life instead of sending them to the landfill. More information is available <br />at: http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2011/oct/25/artists-get-creative-saving-canvasses- <br />from-the/ <br />