Art of Sustainable Living
What We Discard Still Has a Life to Live
Found
Episode 1 - Featuring Leo Sewell
WRAP is launching a new documentary series where each episode follows a resident master artist sharing their craft with young aspiring artists. Leo Sewell, legendary sculptor of found objects, stars in our first episode. In this first film, FOUND, we enter the studio of sculptor Leo Sewell, who has spent fifty years transforming the remnants of everyday life: tools, toys, fragments of memory, and discarded objects - into monumental works of art. What begins as a portrait of an artist becomes something more intimate: a meditation on grief, trust, and the objects we leave behind. Through this series, Waste Reduction Art Project invites the world to see waste not as an endpoint, but as the beginning of cultural value, memory, and legacy.
We need $10,000 to fund production. Every dollar gets this story made.
Donation Tiers & Perks
$5,000 — Executive Patron
Executive Producer credit (end titles)
VIP access to private screening (2 guests, front row)
Private studio visit or virtual session with Leo Sewell
Signed limited-edition artwork or print
Photo opportunity with artist
WRAP Patron recognition across platforms
$2,500 — Patron
Associate Producer credit (end titles)
VIP screening access (2 guests, priority seating)
Signed artwork or print
Photo with artist (event day)
WRAP recognition on website
$1,000 — Collector
Special Thanks credit (end titles)
2 tickets to screening event
Signed poster or print
WRAP supporter acknowledgment
$500 — Supporter
Name listed on WRAP website donor page
2 tickets to screening (general admission)
Limited-edition poster
$250 — Contributor
1 ticket to screening
WRAP supporter digital badge
Early access to trailer
$100 — Friend of WRAP
Digital thank-you + early viewing access (private link)
Name included in supporter list (online)
$50 — Community Supporter
Digital thank-you
Early access to behind-the-scenes content
Earleir Projects
Imagine: A Better World
In the Spring of 2022, Slum Art Foundation collaborated with a NYC-based nonprofit Waste Reduction Art Project, Inc. in delivering an engaging art creation workshop to children in Lagos, Nigeria. Derek Gores – one of the renowned recycled art creators, and WRAP’s artist in residence, taught Slum Art kids how to create art from waste scrap paper via a remote workshop. The workshop went viral and 460 kids in Nigeria have created over 500 works of art inspired by Derek’s technique.
In the Fall of 2022 WRAP and Slum Art completed a documentary short that was submitted to the Bloomberg Green Docs competition. Yana Good Nigen attended the festival at the Skirball Center in LA.
Currently, WRAP is working on a documentary series featuring master artists sharing their technique with young aspiring artists.
You can view the documentary short submitted to the #BloombergGreenDocs here.
Waste Reduction Art Project Inc.
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Registered name: Waste Reduction Art Project Inc.
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