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Paper: flat, white, mundane. Right? Hold on just a minute, there, partner. Remember the excellent horse sculpture that we featured last week in our fabric post? How great would it be if that sculpture…. moved? Okay, okay, I know: every … Continue reading
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Left to Your One Device: The “Tool at Hand” Challenge Reception: THURSDAY, APRIL 25 // 6:00-8:00PM The Philadelphia Art Alliance 251 South 18th Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 It’s too late to participate in the challenge, but you can check out … Continue reading
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I was recently reading Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company‘s Green Theater Choices Toolkit [which, by the way, is a pretty awesome resource for theater makers and... everyone else who builds things / entertains audiences / is human]. The guide rates materials … Continue reading
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Occasionally, we receive a donation that [for whatever reason] we can’t sell. We’ve been holding a collection of coyote and rabbit fur for a few years. We sold some of it, but we discovered that the market for real fur … Continue reading
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First up on our list of must-haves for the Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby: cardboard tubes. These babies came from Arden Theatre Company. We think they’d make a great addition to your derby steed because they are visually striking, lightweight, and … Continue reading
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Andrew McManus, Anthony Ranalli + Jeremy Deck of Cambridge Street Studios “Cambridge Street Studios is Philadelphia’s premier academic atelier. We study academic drawing, painting and sculpture. Our goal is to represent nature in an accurate, unembellished manner, without any type … Continue reading
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So — turns out every spring, Kensington is the epicenter of kinetic sculpture design, building, and racing. It’s called the Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby. Calling all artists, builders, cyclers, scientists, families, friends, anybodies, everybodies – Look at this. What do … Continue reading
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This chair is ours. We love it! You can’t have it! It came to us from the Miss Rockaway Armada, who both used our reclaimed material in their flotilla AND donated material at the end of the project. We were … Continue reading
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Our neighbor brought in some beautiful goodies to share with us a few days ago! Rachel Shoham works in glass and fabric, and made these beautiful earrings with materials she found at The Resource Exchange. She also brought be a … Continue reading
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One of our customers did a fantastic job remodeling a bathroom with our reclaimed tiles! We have tiles in sheets for easy use, but, with a little ambition, you can get creative with mosaics and patterns! This is just a … Continue reading
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We received a donation last month from the design and consulting firm Nelson. NELCO Architecture Inc. is the firm’s Philadelphia branch. They were doing an office clean-out and had a lot of fabric, stone, carpet, and glass samples for discontinued products that … Continue reading
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Old forks and spoons lend themselves to creative reuse. We love this example of fork art, which was given to our Executive Director when she lived in San Francisco. The artist reshaped these two forks by hand to create a … Continue reading