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On Sunday June 16th our featured artist, Bethany Rose Rusen, will be teaching a Mixed Media Collage workshop. Check out Rusen’s eclectic works hanging in our Gallery… We will use the treasure trove of materials at the RE to create … Continue reading
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Bethany Rusen draws on a wide variety of interests, materials, theories, and personal histories to construct her mixed media site-responsive sculptural objects. Her work seeks to explore the visceral and emotional aspects of body experience. Rusen graduated with a BFA … Continue reading
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Melissa Maddonni Haims a fiber artist based in Philadelphia. She uses alternative — mostly recycled, reclaimed + rescued — materials, specifically vintage fabrics and yarn, to create large scale crochet + knit installations. While the majority of her work shows … 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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We’re looking forward to joining The Philadelphia Artist Collective [PAC] for their production of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens. Knowing the PAC, it will be a great show. It’s especially nice to have a chance to see one of Shakespeare’s … 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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It’s a new year, and things are looking up at RE! Here are some items you might not notice in the shop… unless you do some looking up, too. This gorgeous enlarger was donated by an individual. We’ve got Ilford … Continue reading
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If you’ve been in the shop lately, you’ve probably been thinking, “what’s with all the scrap fabric?” Textile artist Melissa Maddonni Haims is developing a project using RE scrap fabric and foam. She’ll be using much of it as stuffing … Continue reading
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Angela McQuillan was our reCreate featured artist for the month of September. She is a local artist and Little Berlin member. See more of her work here, and check out Little Berlin at littleberlin.org. This triptych, entitled “Interiors”, consists of … Continue reading
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We had hundreds of aluminum art slide trays donated to us, and several customers are coming up with really creative ways to repurpose them. Check out these clever upcycled seed starter trays, made by film set dresser (and Philadelphia City … Continue reading
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Reclaimed glass and plexi mosaic, made by Jennifer Jordan