Construction Junction - Building Material Reuse

kegerator raffle

A kegerator is a refrigerator that has been modified to store, cool and dispense beer. 

 But who says it can't look good while doing it? Click on the kegerators above to see what we mean!  Want to take one home?  Who wouldn't?  We will be raffling off kegerators painted by local artists - tickets on sale at both sessions of the Big Pour. If you were here last year you know there'll be a variety as each is created by a different artist - there are more pictures below. 

And, if you take the bus or ride your bicycle to the event instead of driving you'll get a FREE raffle ticket.

Click the photos below to see more kegerators from previous Big Pours.

How to Play

Raffle tickets will be five for $10 and available at the Big Pour merchandise booth (located by the band).  Raffle ticket baskets will be on top of each kegerator. 

Put your raffle tickets in the baskets on top of the kegerators you want to win. 

Winners will be drawn after the festival and posted here.  Each kegerator will come with a Big Pour T-Shirts. 

Please note:  Winners are responsible for picking up their kegerators.

Kegerator Artists

Tim Oliveira 

Christo Braun

I like a little whimsy with my amber nectar.
www.christobraun.com
 

Roger Laib

David Hahn

Working through school, carpentry, music, math, science, dance, and
discipline has enabled me to realize my art and to create a path within
my heart. Art has allowed me to channel the energy within the universe
and to make magic here on the 3rd stone from the sun. I will not waste,
I will not want: my symbiotic relation with nature allows me to create
with the earth's elements.

Jason Dunbar

Dyer Fieldsa

   
It’s hard for me to describe my work. I think it should be hard.  Creating, I splash
a moment on canvas.  After that moment I'm different.  My surroundings
are different.  I often paint in the still of the night. The next morning might
see that I picked apart and reassembled love, hate, want, need, and time. 
Words and symbols jumble.  I believe you shouldn't understand art at
first glance but should have to delve into it to truly appreciate the meaning.  My
paintings are like poetry and robots. I see the mechanical way we go about living,
our violent marches, and our blunders.  We ignore widespread suffering (i.e. hunger)
and obsess on irrational fears (rare disease, for example). My painting reflects
this and hopes to awaken us to what’s right there in front of us.
Though born in rural West Virginia, I took root in post-industrial Pittsburgh,
where I now live.  At the age of two, I began drawing.  In my teens, early curiosity
for crayons morphed into an art obsession.  In 2003, after years of
pen-and-ink drawing, collage, poetry, graffiti, computer illustration and photography,
I focused in on painting.  My artwork is featured in one of the finest folk art collections
in the city of Pittsburgh.
   

Ron Copeland

 
Ohio native and avid photographer, Ron Copeland, is reclaiming the
abandoned buildings of the Rust Belt. For the last eight years,
Copeland has explored the depths of these structures to uncover and
re-imagine the textures, colors, and the artifacts their tenants left
behind. Copeland, who is also a professional archival framer, uses
the ‘junk’ he collects to, quite literally, reframe the past—a desk
becomes a canvas, old signs and scraps of wallpaper become part of a
new visual composition. This is not just an aesthetic choice; reuse and
repurposing were part of the time captured in Copeland’s art. The
buildings Copeland explored were made to last for an industrial period
that didn’t. Rarely are these structures and artifacts seen outside of
the context of loss. In this exhibition, he hopes to show the Rust Belt
“just the way it is,” a portrait of wasted resources, but also of
opportunity. A majority of the materials he used to create this
installation were salvaged or recycled.  Artists have always found beauty
in decay, and Copeland is no exception. Here, though, the work resists
nostalgia by recontextualizing found objects into contemporary
compositions. In this way, the artwork reminds us that while we can’t
change the past, we can reshape the present. Copeland's photography,
framing, and assemblage gathers the raw material of the Rust Belt and
invites us to see it as it is today, through his eyes.
 

Rain Barrel Artists

Walt Gorr

Marc Parenteau
 

Originally from the Pacific Northwest, Marc works
in a range of media from printmaking to sculpture.