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TweetPEAKS ISLAND – At Peaks Island’s annual summer fair a group of local artists revealed an innovative pilot project that uses art to encourage public recycling during the island’s busy summer months. Six Peaks Island artists—Alfred Wood, Jessica George, Nancy Nash, Paul Brahms, Rob Lieber, and Tim Nihoff—spent the past four months designing six unique recycling barrels to be placed adjacent to already existing public trash cans around the island.
“The idea behind the project is to promote recycling by using art to attract people to the receptacles,” said Mary Anne Mitchell, the lead organizer of the project. “We feel that this is especially important during the summer months when thousands of visitors come to enjoy the beauty of Peaks Island. If we want people to recycle, we must give them public containers to use.”
Last summer, Mitchell secured a $5,000 loan from the Peaks Island Fund to pay for the recycling bins, art supplies, and a nominal fee for the artists. She then approached Nihoff to solicit artists to design recycling containers. Nihoff, a graphic designer and commercial artist who resides on the Peaks Island, agreed to recruit other artists for the project and to design a container of his own.
“Starting with a pre-made green recycled plastic container. I put my machinist, illustrator, designer mind and hand-skills to the task,” said Nihoff. “I began by collecting, cleaning, hand cutting, then flat scanning actual recycled bottles and cans. Composing the scene in Photoshop, I then had it printed on 100% recycled weather resist vinyl printed with soy inks. Then rapping and riveting the vinyl to the container.”
Others artists also used recycled products to construct their receptacles. Nash used recycled rope, much of which was found on the beaches of Peaks Island, to design a colorful and weather resistant container. Each container is sponsored by a local organization, which will be responsible for returning the cans and bottles in return for the cash refunded. The containers will be put in storage from October to April.
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