2012 Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Exhibition

Nancy Judd’s Recycle Runway exhibition in the ATL Airport, 2012

Twenty one of Nancy Judd’s eco-fashion sculptures were installed in ten cases located throughout international Concourse E from May 2011-June 2012.  You can read blog posts about her midnight adventures installing the exhibition and a final report on the installation. You can also take the Eco-quiz and perform some E-activism that was a part of the show.

The following video showed on the CNN channel at every gate through out the Atlanta Airport several times a day during the exhibition!

	Thank you to Atlanta’s Airport Art Program staff and the sponsors for making this exhibition possible!

The Recycle Runway Collection

Nancy Judd creates couture fashion sculptures made from trash (the Recycle Runway Collection) and displays her work in traveling exhibitions in high-traffic locations such as museums, airports, and shopping malls. Each of her sculptures takes between 100-650 hours to create, and her goal is that they will last for 100 years. Ms. Judd loves the challenge of making garbage elegant and inspiring people to look differently at waste and consider how we use our limited resources.

Click on any of the sustainable fashion designs to the left to learn more about each piece!

Commissions

Mimi, created in Evanston, IL

Ms. Judd can create a site-specific piece for you or your organization. Nancy enjoys working in collaboration with her sponsors– asking the questions: “What are your waste materials?” and “What are the environmental issues that are pertinent to you or your region?” Using the answers to these questions Nancy designs site-specific commissions that are meaningful and pertinent to the sponsor. Including the community in the creation of the piece adds further depth to the projects. Click on “Mimi” (to the right) to read a blog post about such a project was created in 2011.

Praise from a garment sponsor:

Recycling Fiesta, sponsored by Target

“Nancy contacted the local Target store to make the Target recycling dress, and the store team really got into it by coming up with lots of materials we were recycling and even some that we weren’t. That made the team think more about what they were throwing away. It was a great project and the impact of the dress is excellent.” Jim Bosch, Target

Contact Nancy Judd at 505-577-9712505-577-9712 or nancy@recyclerunway.com for more information about garment sponsorship.

About Nancy Judd

Nancy Judd

Nancy Judd is an artist, environmental advocate, and teaching artist.  For over twenty years she has been creating sculptures from discarded materials and using them to talk about how we live on the planet. Nancy installs her traveling solo exhibitions in high traffic locations such as museums and airports.

Nancy also creates site-specific public art, often in community workshops. In Lincoln City, on the Oregon coast, she was asked to create the Jellyfish Dress, a garment using plastic bags that brought attention to marine conservation issues. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, she used inner tube tires in Tire-less Couture to showcase the City’s commitment to encourage citizens to drive less and use the new bicycle paths.

Nancy giving a TEDx talk wearing the Caution Tape Dress

Nancy uses her sculptures to capture people’s attention and inspire actions in their lives to help care for the planet. She accomplishes this through giving engaging speeches and providing creative eco-events for adults and children in conjunction with her exhibitions, public art commissions and sculpture sponsorships.

Nancy started Recycled Runway while working as the Recycling Coordinator for the City of Santa Fe and then as the Executive Director of the New Mexico Recycling Coalition. In 1998 Nancy co-founded the Recycle Santa Fe Art Market & Fashion Contest, a popular arts event in the international arts destination of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Drawing upon her life-long experience as an artist, she began to create up-cycled fashions to promote this event. This led to the formation of the Recycle Runway Collection which has been exhibited internationally, and received worldwide media attention, including an article on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.

Contact Nancy at Nancy@RecycleRunway.com or 505-577-9712505-577-9712

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Public artist and environmental advocate Nancy Judd creates couture fashion sculptures made from trash. Nancy uses her engaging sculptures to stimulate conversation, action and education about how we live on the planet.

Alterations: Tailored Solutions to Climate Change. A traveling solo exhibition.

Nancy is internationally known for the following accomplishments:

• Included in the Smithsonian Museum’s permanent collection
• Traveling solo exhibitions of her sculptures to museums around the US
• Speaker at two TEDx events
• Featured on the front page of the Wall Street Journal
• Site-specific public art commissions
• Commissions by Delta Air Lines, Toyota, Coca-Cola, Target and more
• Hands-on eco-events and workshops
• International media coverage
  
  

  See the “making of Pacifica” sponsored by The Nature Conservancy.

Learn about the mission behind Ms. Judd’s work in her TEDx talks!

TEDxABQ, 2011