Articles
The Yardley Voice
“Over the course of 11 days in September 2011, Colleen Attara of Yardley installed a 70-foot three-dimensional mural made out of repurposed business signs and “mistake paint” along the pediatric corridor at Capital Health Medical Center in Hopewell, New Jersey……We had the opportunity to chat about this project, the largest of her career so far, as well as the events that brought her to this place in her life.” The Yardley Voice, November, 2011
The Times of Trenton
“To satisfy her love of creating art from discarded materials, she rummages through bins of discards at a plastic fabricating company, picks up signs that can not be reused at a Trenton sign shop and haunts salvage yards for old windows, which she turns into works of art.” Jan Purcell, The Times of Trenton, October 14, 2011
The Times of Trenton
“The hospital, which will include an on-site art gallery, will display art from nearly 70 local artists throughout its corridors and patient rooms. The works range from the calm and peaceful — Tuscany scenes done in dusty browns and greens by prominent Princeton architect and artist Michael Graves — to the bright pops of yellow, orange and pink found in Colleen Attara’s recycled art installation piece.”
The Times of Trenton, cover story, September 24, 2011
Bucks County Town and Country
“Brightly colored flowers in a window frame but going beyond its rectangular boundaries says joy in a way that subdued colors never could.” Bucks County Town and Country Living, Spring 2011
Bucks County Herald
The bold, bright flowers are part of attara’s signature; another is that they are all created from replaced business signs. For Attara is an eco, or “green” artist, recycling old signs and windows and turning them into engaging works of art.” Bucks County Herald,December 30, 2010
Bucks County Courier Times
“Attara also uses “oops” paint for a minimalist mural of tiny squares on an orange wall, and to decorate a door in many-colored folk-art fashion.”
Bucks County Courier Times, “Going Green”, October 25, 2010
Cottages and Bungalows
“Colleen Attara recycles old windows, Plexiglas trim pieces and leftover paints to create color-filled, three dimensional art that would add Whimsy to any home.” Cottages & Bungalows, August/September 2009
Newtown Living
“Colleen Attara is a “green artist” who uses all colors of the rainbow to transform trash into treasure”.
Bucks Living, September 2008
Videos
NJ.com
Capital Health promises stylish and soothing place to heal
PBS, channel 39 on 11/10/08 Art-a-la-Carte
“Colleen Attara, of Bucks County, went green by instinct and by design. She describes her finished works as ‘imperfectly perfect’ because she uses the imperfections in recycled materials as part of her signature style. Colleen breeds new life into old objects.” PBS-TV, 2008
