Mark Swidler, a former AT&T executive who began making things from cups in the mid 1970's. Before the general public boos him for using styrofoam.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/at-baltimores-visionary-museum-a-visually-dense-show-featuring-outsider-art/2011/10/05/gIQAviKiTL_story.html