TRASH BASH ART FESTIVAL
2025
MAY 15 - 18
We envision a dynamic culture focused on actively using waste as a resource for social, economic and creative benefit. We believe that the creative use of waste can improve the quality of life for all communities. The Trash Bash Art Festival showcases a region’s ability to reimagine waste in many forms.
TRASH BASH ART FESTIVAL
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TBAF 2024 is a wrap.
Thank you to our Sponsors and Donors of TBAF 2024. Averill Recycling, Tillamook County Solid Waste, Broken Banjo Photography, deGarde, Fort George, Nehalem Bay Winery, Hudson Insurance, Jigsaw Consulting, Ybarra Consulting, McCorkle Construction, Grocery Outlet Tillamook, Tillamook Estuaries Partnership, Buttercup Chowders & Ice Cream, Oregon Coast Bank, Allan Olsen, Mark Beach.
Your sponsorship played a critical role: providing essential supplies and services, ensuring delicious food and beverages, and allowing us the ultimate platform to inspire the community. It is through your support that we were able to orchestrate this powerful event.
Explore the links below for a look back. We will update regularly as the media surfaces.
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Trash Art Gallery
Anyone can submit pieces for show. It is not juried.
In 1999, the very first Trash Art Gallery featured the area's most resourceful creations from scrap metal welds to paper masks. Each May, we pop up a gallery somewhere and sell the finest of reimagined trash. This year it will be at White Clover Grange in the beautiful Nehalem Valley.
Thanks to Broken Banjo Photography, you can explore past Trash Art Galleries by touring a 3D model:
Trash Tales
At Trash Tales, we capture the emotional connection between humans and their belongings. There may be hilarious tales of dumpster diving, sorrowful poems of things lost to time or sweet songs of treasures found. It is a powerful event that brings us together in community. We can’t wait to hear your stories.
Thanks to XRAY.fm and Broken Banjo Photography, we can bring you 2024 storyteller photos and audio Coming Soon!
Trashion Show
Beginning in 2007, on a runway made of overturned dumpsters, the Trashion Show has a long history of awe-inspiring creations made entirely out of discards. You might wonder if these early Spring fashions were shipped from Milan, but we can assure you that they’ve all been pulled right out of a local dumpster!
Thanks to Broken Banjo Photography, you can see portraits of the models in there finest trashion.