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Trash, talent go on display at Indian Head contest
Recycle art, area talent featured during events
Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009
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Picture this: A bouquet of flowers made out of aluminum and tin cans and some soda bottles or an elevator scene made from trash picked up on along the Potomac River's edge.
That's the kind of creativity sought for the Charles County's Got Talent in the Arts Talent Show and Recycle Art Contest hosted by Art Smart Studio and Indian Head's Black Box Theatre.
The event is planned Nov. 20 and 21 at the theater.
The talent show will take place 7 to 9:30 p.m. Nov. 20.
Writers, dancers, singers, actors, musicians and comedians of all ages are invited to showcase their family-friendly talents in three minutes or less.
And from 1 to 3 p.m. Nov. 21 will be the recycle art contest. The designs can be decorative or functional and must contain 50 percent or more items that are reused, recycled or otherwise saved from landfills, said Therese Thiedeman, volunteer publicist for the Black Box Theatre.
Lorina Harris, 41, started the Art Smart Studio about two years ago with the desire to "teach art and to have a place where other artists can come," she said.
Last November, she held the first recycle art contest at the Black Box Theatre. However, "we didn't have a huge turnout," Harris said.
The talent show and recycle art contest are open to everyone in the area, she said, adding that participants don't have to live in Charles County.
Paola Addamiano-Carts of Accokeek participated in the recycle art contest last year with her three kids. She is helping spread the word for this year's event.
Addamiano-Carts' flower bouquet made from items found in the recycling bin won a prize last year.
"It's a very fun way to exercise your creativity and to look at trash in a new way," she said. "The Black Box Theatre is a very charming place to perform or to have your art on display."
"The Black Box is very concerned about the environment," Thiedeman said. "We try to make sure we are recycling as much as we can. It's a unique idea to bring visual arts and performing arts into one combined event. We are certainly hoping it will bring people to the theater that haven't been there before and to realize the potential of the space."
