Art at Home: Found Object Shacks

Beverly Buchanan is an African American artist who explored everyday southern architecture. Buchanan is best known for creating small-scale sculptures of the houses where black tenant farmers lived. She called these sculptures “shacks.” Her shacks are made of found objects like wood, tar, buttons, charcoal, metal and even old license plates. Found objects are things that were not originally meant to be a work of art. They can be natural or manmade. An artist turns these objects into art.

What kind of everyday objects would you like to turn into art?