Hazmatt Sculpture

Tucked behind the chain-link fence of Norman's Household Hazardous Waste Facility, a 20-foot reclining figure made almost entirely from the city's own retired dumpsters stares peacefully at the Oklahoma sky, one enormous hand cradling a single wildflower. Norman artist Kenneth Eugene Hall Jr. (with collaborator Derek Vosten and the city's sustainability team) spent years welding decommissioned city bins into "Hazmatt" — a gentle giant whose name is a pun on the hazmat site it calls home. The whole thing cost just over $14,000 scraped from leftover construction funds, was assembled partly on a city maintenance lot, and was unveiled January 13, 2026 to a ribbon-cutting crowd at a place most people only visit to drop off old paint. None of Norman's major tourism guides have noticed it yet — because who goes looking for art at the hazardous-waste drop-off?

The move: Drive out to the facility, park in the lot, and spend twenty minutes up close with a trash-bin titan holding a flower — then grab a patio table at one of the campus-area bars and argue about whether it's the best or weirdest public art in Oklahoma.

• 📍 Norman
• 💸 Free
• ⚡ Up for anything
• 🌗 Outdoors

Where: 3803 Chautauqua Ave, Norman, OK 73072

Hours: Added 2026-06-09 — confirm current hours before you go.

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Verified 2026-06-09.