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Old barrels turned into art projects

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May 17, 2011

One man’s metal drum is another man’s canvass when you throw in a paint brush and plenty of imagination.

Budding artists,  ages 11-14-years-old, have put old industrial storage barrels to good use by turning them into decorative trash receptacles.

The cans will be officially unveiled at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, at the Agape Center, 2353 Bolton Road N.W.

In partnership with Councilmember Felicia A. Moore, the Trash Can Art Project is being led by Ivan Mallory, a local Atlanta artist who has done previous projects of this sort with the YMCA and the Sustainable Lakewood Organization.

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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.

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