For Patients & Families | Art Gallery

'Trash to Treasure'

From the rocky coast of Maine to the sandy gulf shores of Florida, "Trash to Treasure" features artwork made from objects collected on the beach. Focused on bringing attention to the abundance of trash in the environment, these artists repurpose and examine these materials up close. 

Litter, Litter, Please Come Here, a book by Jacueline Boreaux and Ryan Caver, leads you to the exhibition space where lobster pot rope, plastic artifacts, and micro-plastics are transformed into contemporary art.

Featured artists include:

• Oliver Caver and his family began cleaning Gulf Coast beaches in 2020. They upcycle the plastic they find to create colorful birds, fish, and landscapes. They also founded Clean Horizons 2020 with a mission to inspire younger generations and their families to get involved in environmental actions and find ways to reduce their own plastic consumption, while promoting quality family time spent outdoors. To date, Oliver and his family have captured 8,428 pounds of litter from the coast, and Clean Horizons has captured 29,937 pounds of litter through community cleanup events.
• Eric Darling is a self-taught artist native to New England who now lives in Maine. He collects pot rope that has washed up on the banks of the Saint George River and uses the rope as the “paint” for his canvases. His goal is to recycle Maine’s largest industries’ waste into fine art and highlight how important rope is to the livelihoods of coastal communities.
• Evelyn Rydz creates drawings, paintings, site-specific installations, and participatory community projects. As part of her ongoing project Floating Artifacts, Rydz collects tiny samples of debris that have washed ashore. She magnifies her findings under a microscope and then creates portrait-sized photographs of them. The resulting body of work encourages us to think about what these objects are made of, how they got into the ocean, and how that relates to the abundance of plastic in our world.

'Love is the Cure: In Celebration of Inigo'

Inigo Vega had enormous artistic talents, and put his creative gifts to great use during his time at Boston Children’s Hospital on the neuro-oncology floor. “Love is the Cure” is an expression that carried great power for Inigo, his family, and members of his care team at Boston Children’s and at the Jimmy Fund.

At home and while in treatment, Inigo’s wide-spanning interests included writing and illustrating his own comic books, mountain biking, scripting and directing videos, and searching for the elusive Sasquatch.

The four dioramas in the exhibit feature his artistic creations, and the wallpaper along the corridor is inspired by his illustrations and interests.

Use the Seek and Find cards found in at each end of the exhibit to explore the various elements in the wallpaper.