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USA Today

USA Today January 1, 2010 A traveler admires the Recycle Runway at Phoenix Sky Harbor. The Phoenix Airport Museum partnered with artist Nancy Judd on the exhibition of dresses created from materials that are often discarded. Read article on USA Today website.

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Phoenix New Times

Phoenix New Times Waste Deep: Trashy fashions on display at Sky Harbor By Wynter Holden March 11, 2010 It’s amazing what we can do with garbage. Roads are paved with rubber from discarded tires. Boutiques sell purses crafted from gum wrappers. Even this year’s Olympic medals were partially made from electronic waste. Amazing. Check out…

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Airport Revenue News

Airport Revenue News ‘Recycle Runway’ At PHX Shows Dresses Made From Trash By Jamie Simon February 24, 2010 The Phoenix Airport Museum and artist/educator Nancy Judd have launched “Recycle Runway,” an exhibit of classic dresses made from materials often discarded, on display at Phoenix Sky Harbor (PHX). “Environmental education is at the heart of all…

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Blind Access Journal

Blind Access Journal Art Takes Off Down the Recycle Runway in New Airport Exhibition February 19, 2010 A new art exhibition at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport features clothing made from recycled materials. The artist, Nancy Judd, an environmental educator with over 20 years of experience in the recycling industry, began her career in art…

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KTVK Channel 3 News

KTVK Channel 3 News, Good Morning Arizona Recycle Runway — New Exhibition KTVK Channel 3 News- February 12, 2010 By Catherine Holland February 12, 2010 PHOENIX –The Recycle Runway exhibit will be on display at Sky Harbor’s Terminal 3 from Feb. 13-Sept 2010. Watch video on KTVK Channel 3 website

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Southwest Flair

Southwest Flair Nancy Judd : The Art of Green Couture By Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam February 2010 Artist Nancy Judd transforms trash into elegant couture fashions and showcases the Recycle Runway Collection in airport exhibitions, class rooms and media outlets around the nation. Her unique work inspires environmental stewardship in millions of people internationally! Recycle Runway strives…

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Earth Odyssey

Earth Odyssey From trash to couture fashions By Ann Haver-Allen January 1, 2010 Clothing made using paper, aluminum, nails, car wiring and tape cassettes—anything is game for Nancy Judd’s unique recycling. Nancy Judd is not your ordinary recycler. Sure, she does the ordinary recycling things, but Judd’s Earth-friendly actions go way beyond ordinary. She has…

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AAA Magazine

AAA Magazine, New Mexico Journey Can Do Attitude By Megan Kamerick, photograph by Ann Murdy December 2009 Eleven years ago, Nancy Judd made her first dress out of recycled materials for the Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival, which she cofounded. Today, her mission is education through fashion. She creates recycled garments through her company, Recycle…

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Los Angeles Times

Los Angels Times, Culture Monster Obama cocktail dress, from dumpster to fashion runway By Suzanne Muchnic May 27, 2009 Nancy Judd, a 1990 graduate of Pitzer College who heads a company called Recycle Runway, will return to her Claremont alma mater Saturday with a one-day exhibition of fancy garments made from trash and ingenuity. Judd…

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Planet Green

Planet Green Discover Trashion (Trash Fashion) at the Green Inaugural Ball By Heather Sperling January 20, 2009 Trash + Fashion = Trashion. Simple, right? Not necessarily—one of Nancy Judd’s winter coats, made from Obama fliers, took 200 hours to cut, paste and sew. The Wall Street Journal has a slide show of some of Judd’s…

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