Outside the Box: Creating Compositions out of Upcycled Materials

Outside the Box is an immersive hands-on experience, where participants will learn how to use everyday recycled materials such as shoeboxes and cereal boxes, to create their own unique artworks. Artist Kerry Sutton will lead a demonstration in how to manipulate these materials and form them into wonderful amalgamations of their former self, and participants will then have the freedom to explore and create their own repurposing of these materials.

About the artist

Kerry Sutton is a self-taught, mixed media artist, born and raised in Seattle, WA. Within his practice, Kerry explores life growing up in 1990's Seattle, with limited resources, often using overlooked or forgotten materials such as wood scraps, street signs, shoeboxes and more. These recycled materials function as a symbolic apparatus to create beauty out of struggle. Influenced by shared experiences of pain, Kerry seeks to be a conduit of healing within his work. Previously a public school educator, Kerry has been a full-time artist for 5 years. His practice has grown from being a studio artist, to include public art and teaching artist experience; having worked with local and national brands and organizations such as MoPOP, City of Seattle, City of Bellevue, Nike, Jordan Brand and more.