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It's been an award-o-riffic fall here at Plenty Underfoot but the best part isn't even the getting-paid-to-be-creative part of it (which is pretty awesome). The best part is having the behind the scenes honor of creating the awards for work that is completely awesome. Pictured here, these awards are going to Nationwide Children's Hospital and the three businesses that helped them recycle 53,000 pounds of flooring when they expanded their hospital in Columbus. They are being given to the four companies in a ceremony at GreenBuild International Conference & Expo in Philadelphia this week. ….Recycled flooring resourcefulness begets repurposed flooring award. Yes, please. Thanks for asking me to play a role, Tarkett!
#Upcycled neighborhoods became awards for Neighborhood Connections 10th year anniversary gala this weekend. Woohoo & thanks Neighborhood Connections! It was such an honor to make these for the awardees.
Opening a brand new package full of vinyl flooring samples for an upcoming commission project is like Christmas! My new favorite elf is a human named Vince who works for Johnsonite & prepares packages like this for me! Yup, I am a creativeflooringnerd.
Here's an upcycled diorama of a dreamy neighborhood made from flooring, cardboard, and telephone wire. I had the honor, and the fun, of making awards for the Cleveland Sustainability Summit this year!
It was even more fun to think of the award winners with the knowledge that the work I get to do now is part of the work others have been doing for years. ...Working toward sustainability in Cleveland, standing on the shoulders of giants...and rubbing elbows with rooms full of them. The Sustainability Summit is my sustainability lovefest. In the best way.
Just finished 22 of these: Flowers from upcycled vinyl & discarded business cards on chopsticks as centerpieces for St Clair Superior CDC's year of the snake auction & gala!
It still feels new, this collaborative way I'm working with reused materials and with community building and with economic development in Cleveland's St. Clair community. It's dream work and I've been learning that dream work can still be overwhelming, amazing, draining, and beautiful all in the same hour. (I'll take it, though, the reality of it versus the dreams of it!).
This photo is adorable, isn't it? Little Olivia was just one of the chalk artists last week at our Popsicles & Pinwheels event on St. Clair Avenue and we loved having her and everyone else there. It was at the 'doors of St. Clair' installation designed by Agnes Studio and funded by Cuyahoga Arts & Culture. It was community celebration at its best, complete with popsicles, bench bombing (yup, check out this link if you're interested), and neighbors of all ages walking up, hanging out with us, and upcycling pinwheels from used vinyl banners. Horray for community events! Check out our photos on facebook, and like us on there too, okay? Upcycle St. Clair. Amazing collaboration. Beautiful, incredible, exciting work that I feel honored to be doing in Cleveland. #thisisstclair
I had an early and fun start to the morning hanging out at Fox 8 studios!
Greater Cleveland Habitat for Humanity is holding it's 25th Anniversary Celebration this weekend and is hosting an auction of goods upcycled from ReStore. Fox 8's Wayne Dawson meets some local upcyclists (including yours truly)...
Hey friends, come hang out with me & other friends this Thursday on St. Clair Avenue as we celebrate our new art installation and hang out around it with popsicles, upcycled crafting (pinwheels!), sidewalk chalk, and our friend James playing the guitar. It's free and it's just for fun. Come on over red rover, 5:30-8:00 at East 64th and St. Clair Avenue.
Cityscapes to hold notes, photos & cards, just finished an order for an annual meeting with a few to spare for sale at the Tremont Arts & Cultural Festival 9/21 & 9/22!
On my way to work on a Tuesday that feels like a Monday listening to Niko Case on an overcast day and smiling in St. Clair Superior.
It's been an amazing week of learning. Like peering inside the shell of a wise and old scrappy turtle with so much to teach, I got to spend 4 days at The Scrap Exchange creative reuse center in Durham. Back to Cleveland with a binder full of knowledge & plans to implement...Coming this fall: The Upcycle Parts Shop creative reuse center in Cleveland's St Clair neighborhood! We stand on the shoulders of giants!
I have a crush on a new magazine in town. And not just because this is a sneak peek about Plenty Underfoot with photos that make my studio look beautiful and a mention of Harvey as my studio mate (love that term!)
This happy tree from Friday night is a good visual of the blue sky sunny day upcyling that's making me smile this summer. I'm working with an awesome team in the St. Clair Superior neighborhood on the Upcycle St. Clair project. More background on the awesomeness of that project to come, but we're growing something big & beautiful in the St. Clair neighborhood & I hope you'll join me in celebrating it in months to come!
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Creating a Place Where People Want to Go and Linger...
http://www.artplaceamerica.org/articles/principles-of-creative-placemaking
Yup. Thanks to sweet funding from Artplace America, creating that kind of place in Cleveland's St. Clair neighborhood is my new gig. Well, it's accelerated from a dream to a gig to a part-time job. The best kind of acceleration. My friend Lee who writes for Fresh Water Cleveland wrote an awesome article on the project. I'm really humbled to be doing this work with the people I get to work with and the vision we get to work toward. Life. Upcycling. Cleveland. You make me so happy.