A Freeport art gallery is breathing new life into things once cast aside during a fashion show and art exhibition focused around reclaimed materials.

Meetinghouse Arts, partnering with Sidle House Gallery, presents the “Recollected and Reconfigured Runway” at 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17, at 20 Bartol Island Road in Freeport.

The sold-out fashion show will feature Freeport artist and designer Mandana MacPherson’s clothing designs made from repurposed materials, as well as artist Crystal Cawley, who works with paper, textiles, collected objects and recycled materials.

Following the reclaimed fashion show is an exhibition opening at Meetinghouse Arts Gallery called “From Waste to Wonder: Reclaimed Art and Design,” with an open reception on Thursday, Oct. 23. That will remain open to the public until Sunday, Nov. 2.

“From Waste to Wonder” features the work of environmental artist Pamela “Posey” Moulton and sculptor Ian Trask, as well as fashion design and artwork made by MacPherson.

“Having worked in environmental policy for many years, I’ve seen how often the conversation is framed by limits,” said Suzanne Watson, executive director of Meetinghouse Arts. “These artists turn that conversation on its head, showing us that sustainability can be about imagination, joy and possibility.”

The fashion show and art exhibition celebrate the “Pinkies” sculptures, displayed in front of the Freeport Town Office since last fall. Moulton designed the Pinkies to show how discarded materials can receive new life, sparking conversations about art and the power of reuse.

The “From Waste to Wonder” exhibition will be the first time Moulton has displayed her artwork at Meetinghouse Arts.

“I get Instagram messages and posts from people all over the world [who] are visiting Freeport,” Moulton said. “Everyone has had a little personal anecdote to share about their relationship to the sculptures.”

Moulton is working on her art pieces for the Meetinghouse Arts exhibition right up until it starts. Her art pieces are wall art using unraveled dogfish nets and will feature Zostera, the guardian of eelgrass meadows. Moulton also has a series of smaller pieces called pink cameos, much like the Pinkies sculptures.

The worn-out dogfish net, enough to fill an entire garden shed, was given to Moulton by a fisherman in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Other net material Moulton uses in her art pieces comes from the Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation, which gathers it during beach cleanups.

For “From Waste to Wonder,” MacPherson will show her knitwear and felted fabrics created with reclaimed wool. Some of the pieces come from leftover projects her mother worked on before she died from Alzheimer’s disease. Some of the wool used in these projects is new but was used to complete the unfinished projects or experiments MacPherson had previously worked on.

“I am excited to have a full body of work to show,” MacPherson said.

MacPherson has been working with reclaimed materials since her college years at Brown University in 1984. While taking art classes, MacPherson ruined her leather bag by spilling ink on it and was inspired to make a rubber bag. She eventually used an inner tube to bring that idea to life.

One of MacPherson’s exhibitions at Meetinghouse Arts will include an inner tube material exchange station, where patrons can take an inner tube and QR codes on display show participants how to use the material to make new things. Some clothing pieces worn on the fashion show runway will be on display for the Meetinghouse Arts exhibition.

The show will also feature large walls of glass made from blister packages for vegetables by Trask, a Bowdoin College graduate with a background in biology, Watson said. Some of his transformation of waste materials into objects is part of seeing the artistic potential of discarded manufactured goods as the main platform for his puckish pieces.

“We all work with such different materials, so it’d be very interesting to see how three different artists use completely different materials and how they are transformed,” Moulton said.