I featured Paul Villinski here a few months ago as one of our junk artists in Things You’d Never Imagine From Beer Cans, Gloves and Chairs.
These days Paul is concentrating on building an Emergency Response Studio.
He’s turning a broken-down Gulfstream travel trailer into a “visually engaging, sustainably built, solar- and wind-powered, mobile artist’s studio.” It’s designed for use in emergency settings (like after hurricanes), and will provide off-grid space for displaced or visiting artists.
From Paul’s site:
“My experience of post-Katrina New Orleans made apparent the need for such a mobile structure to house displaced artists or enable visiting visual …read more

Junk art can be the most beautiful of all.
And turning everyday found objects into art is Paul Villinski’s specialty. I first wrote about his work and artist’s statement over at Tree Hugging Family, but I didn’t show his art there. Now that I have Paul’s permission, here goes with the art showing.
All of this New York artist’s work is amazing, but my personal favorites as examples of junk art are the beer can butterflies. You owe it to yourself to click through them all. These butterflies were made from crushed beer cans found on the streets of New York. Could …read more