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Rabid Hands Art Collective recently visited our shop, looking for materials [lumber, felt, paper rolls, foam tubes, and more] for their project in the 2013 Hidden City Festival. Hidden City invites artists to animate Philadelphia’s most unusual and remarkable spaces, … Continue reading
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We were so excited to receive this piece of scenery from a locally-shot television show. Here’s Dennis, with the confessional pieces fresh from the set. The bench is in the foreground, and the large framed-out platform behind it is the … Continue reading
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Meet our friends from Terracycle! Or, rather, what they do. From their website: “TerraCycle’s purpose is to eliminate the idea of waste. We do this by creating national recycling systems for previously non-recyclable or hard-to-recycle waste. Anyone can sign up … Continue reading
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There’s more than one way to ride a bike in style. A few weeks back, our friends Samantha and James [of Mr. and Mrs. Magoo's Traveling Trash Puppet Circus] created this gorgeous mascot-style Grumpy Cat with reclaimed faux fur from … Continue reading
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Remember these? These screens, salvaged from a film, have been repurposed before as interior decor. But they have great potential outdoors as well! The South Philly tree below needed a little help, so our friend Caitlin Perkins used a reclaimed … Continue reading
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Our friends from New Hope were back for more lumber and props a few weeks back. Recognize that bedpost from Arden Theatre Company’s CInderella? It got a second chance to be on stage, this time in New Hope Academy’s production … Continue reading
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Remember this? Look very closely, and you’ll see CDs and tubing used in repetition to create a monster. Sometimes small pieces, repeated, can have amazing visual impact while maintaining flexibility. How could you use the following materials, all available for … Continue reading
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Lisa Marie Middendorf and her friends recently visited The Resource Exchange, looking for lumber to make a table. They went home with this pile of 2×6. These painted boards were once part of the set for Arden Children’s Theatre’s production … 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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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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Dalyn Montgomery took the reclaimed canvas pictured above — originally from a film set — and reused it as a painting surface. This endeavor involved extra reuse skills because the canvas had a hole in one corner. Dalyn was up … Continue reading
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Welcome to the studio of artist Joshua Mosley. He teaches art and animation at the University of Pennsylvania. In his animation studio, he needed some black-out fabric for a very large 30′ x 10′ window. The Resource Exchange’s duvetyne — … Continue reading