Sherry’s glass work, in addition to minerals and fossils, includes items that we have collected from nature.  Armagosa Valley was home to Native Americans, later miners, ranchers and farmers.  Now home to Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge and with much evidence of settlers from the last century.  Before our modern landfills, trash was dumped in shallow pits and burned.  What was left behind was mostly glass bottles and rusting cans.  We found one such area here in Armagosa Valley.  Almost a square mile dotted with old dump sites that date from 60 to 100 years ago.

Above are some of the treasure we found in areas outside of protected lands.

Sherry will use mostly pieces of broken bottles and scraps of rusted metal to create her “repurposed” art that have become popular.  The building in the background is the remains of a water system that pumped ground water for farming, ranching and mining.  lawsuits in the last century have seriously limited any future large scale development in an effort to protect the groundwater and biodiversity of the Armagosa Valley, just outside of Death Valley.

Today is the start of the Art Show here in Shoshone and the wildflowers are still in bloom!