For the past 20 years the San Francisco Dump has quite literally been trying not to let the trash go to waste.  The Dump has hosted 80 artists to date who have spent their residencies turning trash into treasure by scouring the wasteland to create art made entirely from trash.

The resulting work includes everything from bottle cap trashion fashion to tricycle table hybrids.  But perhaps the most shocking art is the art you would never guess spawned from a dumpster dive.

“Its really evolved what people initially thought of as recycled art,” says curator Sharon Spain.

The show holds artwork created throughout the last 20 years.

“It’s the only program of its kind in the country,” says Spain.  “The idea behind the program is more important today than it was 20 years ago.”

You can check out the exhibit Art at the Dump: Twenty Years of the Artist in Residence Program at Recology at Intersection 5M located at 925 Mission Street @ 5^th Street in San Francisco.  The exhibit is open 12PM-6PM daily through Sept. 25^th. Visit http://sunsetscavenger.com/AIR/ for more info.

Above is a video I produced last year on the Artist-in-Residency program, and below are some photos from the current exhibit.