We’ve been thinking a lot about the amazing art that is made through the reuse of materials that would once have been called waste. A visit to the ReBuilding Exchange, filled with reclaimed doors, windows, knobs and so much more, proved a fertile hunting ground for inspiration. But it is the artists of the Bucktown Arts Fest who always manage to amaze us with their ability to reinvent.
Emmy Star Brown takes old Chicago windows and transforms them with free drawn paint or pen into magical pieces of whimsy.