Many times when you see framed artwork on the wall when you’re watching a movie, that production has had to get that image “cleared.”  Cleared artwork is usually a duplicate, printed on vinyl sign cloth or canvas, and then destroyed after filming is finished.  We do our best to save these to be painted over and reused by local artists, but often the clearance stipulates literally slashing the image due to copyright issues. When that is the case, we are still sometimes able to save the wooden stretcher bars for reuse.

We recently salvaged several very large wooden stretchers from *unnamed major motion picture* (we’d tell you, but then we’d have to kill you..)  Several local artists, like Victor Atkins shown below, have truly made art from the arts:

Salvaging these materials for creative reuse keeps them out of our local landfills, and we sell them at a fraction of what they would normally cost to help artists like Victor to produce more work. 

Here at The Resource Exchange, providing low cost reclaimed materials to local artists is an important part of our mission, and their purchases in turn enable us to save even more material!

Victor makes fantastic work with the materials he finds here in the store.  If you’re a local artist using materials from The Resource Exchange, please send us pictures.  And if you haven’t, what are your waiting for?

If there’s one thing we love, it’s to see material that would have been thrown away turned into lasting artwork instead!  Thanks, Victor, for the inspiration!