This Earth Month, Glad’s Online Upcycled Art Auction Raises Funds for Keep America Beautiful
OAKLAND, Calif., April 17, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The Glad Products Company is turning “trashed items” into works of art. In this case, celebrity trash. The makers of Glad® ForceFlex® Black Bag have partnered with acclaimed artist Jason Mecier to create custom artwork from the remnants of wild moments of Hollywood stars, including actress Amy Smart, actor Jesse Eisenberg, reality star Lauren Conrad, actress Emmanuelle Chriqui of “Entourage” and “iCarly’s” Nathan Kress.
Mecier, a celebrated mosaic artist, has created four unique works of art from celebrity donations. Mecier also used unique finds from Keep America Beautiful’s (KAB) Great American Cleanup(TM) events, the nation’s largest cleanup effort. The mosaics will be auctioned during the “Mess to Masterpiece Auction, Presented by Glad® Black Bag” on eBay® at www.ebay.com/gladartauction from April 16-26, 2012 to support KAB’s Great American Cleanups, in addition to more than three million Glad® ForceFlex® Black Bags that have been donated to cleanups nationwide.
More information is available here:
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/artist-helps-turn-celebrity-trash-into-treasure-for-good-2012-04-17
http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=glad_art_auction



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