Art in Santa Barbara

Guest Blogger and Garden Educator Rachel Jutkowitz shares some of her most popular and creative ideas straight from an Explore Ecology School Garden.  Here’s Rachel! Not to say I never get [...]

November is a time to show your gratitude and be thankful.  I’m thankful for mother earth and all of her amazing wonders. Art From Scrap loves her, too! And is inviting you to show your gratitude [...]

Wrapping presents is one of my favorite holiday traditions and this year I am challenging myself to only use recycled or reuse items. After five minutes looking around Art From Scrap I had so [...]

New Pricing: A couple of months ago , the Art From Scrap Creative ReUse Store opened up more floor space to increase our Bulk Section. What that means is more cool stuff at fantastically [...]

If you’ve ever been to the Art From Scrap Creative Reuse Store, you know that it is a dream come true for artists, makers, and other creative folk. Art From Scrap is a creative hub. filled [...]

On Sunday, November 20th, at 1:00 pm, the Art From Scrap Gallery will host an Artist Talk for our latest exhibition, Young Americans. Ted Mills, host of the FunkZone Podcast, will moderate the [...]

Isn’t it time to ditch plastic bags? In California, approximately 13.8 billion plastic bags are used per year.  Less than 5 percent of these bags are recycled. Many of these plastic bags [...]

When Kai Tepper, Phoebe Brunner, Nathan Vonk, and Jeremy Tesmer gathered in the Art From Scrap Gallery on Tuesday night, they had a tough job ahead of them. As judges of Art From Scrap’s [...]

On Sunday, October 2 , from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm join us at Art From Scrap for the first ever Trash Into Treasure: Eco-Art and Reuse Market. To embrace the spirit of reuse, this event will [...]

When Explore Ecology needed to find an artist who could create a one of a kind sea creature out of reuse materials for the Santa Barbara Sea Glass and Ocean Arts Festival, we thought of mosaic [...]