Showing posts with label Recycled Seconds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Recycled Seconds. Show all posts

Friday, January 08, 2010

CCAI Courthouse Gallery Reception Tonight!

Reminder!
Tonight:

Friday, January 8 | 5 - 7 pm
CCAI Courthouse Gallery

885 East Musser Street
Carson City

Recycled Seconds CCAI Exhibition Closing Reception


Participating Artists:
Diamond Barker
Juliana Bledsoe
Rita Borsellis
Bryan Christiansen
Terra Coyan
Veronica Garcia
Kodi Fujii
Andrew Jones
Dominique Palladina
Genny Reuter
Gil Valdez


more:
FB Event Page
Earlier Blog Post


[graphic from CCAI photography archive. Staff photo by Christel Passink]

Sunday, January 03, 2010

Recycled Seconds Closing Reception this Friday!


CCAI's first party of the year! You're invited!

Friday, January 8 | 5 - 7 pm
CCAI Courthouse Gallery

885 East Musser Street
Carson City

Recycled Seconds CCAI Exhibition Closing Reception

Please join us for the closing reception of "Recycled Seconds" CCAI's exhibition of DIY fashion by northern Nevada artists and designers.

What a great way to start the year _and_ the weekend. We hope to see you there!

Free | Invite everyone you ever met!

FB Event page r.s.v.p.

[Graphic from the CCAI Flickr Album. Caption: ""CCAI Recycled Seconds Benefit Fashion Show " at Classy Seconds. October 16, 2009. Carson City, Nevada."]

Saturday, December 05, 2009

Recycled Seconds Curator's Notes


An essay on Recyled Seconds, CCAI's fall program focusing on community-based practice, DIY fashion design, sustainability and civic engagement is now online.

Recycled Seconds – the exhibition – continues through January 8, 2010 at the CCAI Courthouse Gallery.

READ | SEE

[Photograph from the CCAI Album. Caption: "Backstage at the CCAI Recycled Seconds Benefit Cocktail Party & Fashion Show. Classy Seconds, Carson City, Nevada. October 16, 2009."]

Friday, November 27, 2009

Decorate and Protect

[As part of "Recycled Seconds," CCAI's Fall 2009 project focusing on community-based practice, DIY fashion design, sustainability and civic engagement, the CCAI Blog! is featuring a range of textiles|fashion projects through the end of the year.]


Southern Alberta Art Gallery
601 Third Avenue South
Lethbridge, Alberta
T1J 0H4

November 28 – January 17, 2010
Decorate and Protect
Mary-Anne McTrowe


Opening Reception: Saturday, November 28 | 8 pm

Prevalent throughout the domestic decorative arts, the tea-cozy remains an oft-visited tradition for novices and seasoned practitioners alike. Knit, crocheted or quilted, the purpose of the object is two-fold – it functions as an insulator keeping the tea warm, and is also a decorative and creative expression of its maker. Extending its utility, artist Mary-Anne McTrowe embraces the ‘cozy’ as a device to approach ideas of domestic production, protection, and decoration.

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[text and graphic from gallery website. Caption: "Cozies for Destroyed Lethbridge Landmarks: Capitol Theatre."]

Monday, November 23, 2009

Recycled Seconds at the Courthouse Gallery

CCAI Courthouse Gallery
885 East Musser Street [map]
Carson City

Gallery Hours: M-F | 9 am – 5 pm
Closing Reception: January 8, 2010 | 5–7 pm

Recycled Seconds

Diamond Barker
Juliana Bledsoe
Rita Borsellis
Bryan Christiansen
Terra Coyan
Veronica Garcia
Kodi Fujii
Andrew Jones
Dominique Palladina
Genny Reuter
Gil Valdez


Part of CCAI's fall program focusing on on community-based practice,DIY fashion design, sustainability and civic engagement.


[Photograph from the CCAI Album. Caption: "From the runway of the CCAI Recycled Seconds Benefit Cocktail Party & Fashion Show. Classy Seconds, Carson City, Nevada. October 16, 2009."]

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Wendy Tremayne Thursday, November 19!


Reminder: Artist|Activist Wendy Tremayne will give a public presentation at 7 pm on Thursday at the Carson City Library in conjunction with Recycled Seconds, CCAI's Fall 2009 project focusing on community-based practice,'do it yourself' fashion design, sustainability and civic engagement.

Details

[screengrab from CCAI Recycled Seconds Flickr Album. Click here to see the complete slide show.]

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Save the date! Thursday, November 19


Thursday, November 19 | 7 p.m.
Carson City Library
[map]
900 N. Roop Street
Carson City
ph. 775-887-2244

CCAI Nevada Neighbors Lecture Series
Illustrated talk by Artist|DIY Activist Wendy Tremayne
"The Maker as Revolutionary in Times of Commodified Culture"


In her talk, Wendy Tremayne, founder of "Swap-o-rama-rama," will explore evolving grassroots trends in contemporary life, from design to social activism. She writes: "Revivifying the human experience is a mission of purpose, something commodified life has taken from us. What we have to gain is intimacy, creativity, the revival of community, a healthy planet and ultimately happiness. We can each embrace a do-it-yourself spirit and use it to break down the barrier between consumer and creator and by doing so begin to reclaim the creativity that has been lost."

Informal reception: 6:15 p.m.
Free. The public is coridially invited!


The talk is presentation is part of CCAI Fall 2009 project" Recycled Seconds" focusing on community-based practice,'do it yourself' fashion design, sustainability and civic engagement.

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[graphic from Google image search for 'swap-o-rama-rama.']

Monday, October 19, 2009

CCAI Recycled Seconds Benefit Cocktail Party & Fashion Show

"CCAI Recycled Seconds Benefit Cocktail Party & Fashion Show"

A dozen young northern Nevada 'DIY' designers and a dozen models teamed with the Capital City Arts Initiative to present a lively runway fashion show on Friday evening at Classy Seconds, Carson City's premier thrift store.

Proceeds from the event help support CCAI's Arts In Education programs and Advocates to End Domestic Violence [AEDV]. Sales from Classy Seconds help fund AEDV.

more pictures on CCAI's Facebook Fan Page


[click on image to enlarge.]

Thursday, October 15, 2009

All Systems Go for Friday October 16 event!

From the CCAI Picture Album:

Earlier today, CCAI Executive Director Sharon Rosse and Recycled Seconds Lead Designer Kodi Fujii reviewed plans for Friday's Benefit Cocktail Party and Runway Fashion Show.

"DIY fashion from northern Nevada's most exciting young designers and artists, no host bar, great guests, models and designers in a glamorous, Bohemian setting!"

Tickets are still available and all are invited! $25. per person | $10. special student rate! Click here for details!

Monday, October 12, 2009

On Site Design Studio

As part of Recycled Seconds, CCAI's fall project focusing on community-based practice, DIY fashion design, sustainability and civic engagement, CCAI, working with on site staff, have created a fashion design studio at Classy Seconds, Carson City's premier thrift store.

Beginning this month, local designers and artists have been working with Classy Seconds' vast and ever-changing inventory to create new pieces and outfits, from halter taps crafted from men's dress shirts to smart cocktail dresses from t-shirts to avant-garde jewelery from discarded hardware.

A benefit cocktail party and runway show at Classy Seconds will highlight the project this Friday, October 9, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Click here for details and a copy of your electronic invitation!

A portion of the proceeds will go to the Advocates to End Domestic Violence [AEDV].

[Above are, l-r, Recycled Seconds designers Gil Valdez, Genny Reuter, Dominique Palladino and Bryan Christiansen on site in early and later stages of the process. Click on the image to enlarge. As you'll see from the shelves, the designers have found an abundance of materials to work with!

Our heartfelt thanks to staffs of AEDV and Classy Seconds for their support of Recycled Seconds!]

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Recycle LACMA

[As part of "Recycled Seconds," CCAI's Fall 2009 project focusing on community-based practice, DIY fashion design, sustainability and civic engagement, the CCAI Blog! is featuring a range of textiles|fashion projects through the end of the year.]

Recycle LACMA

On January 14th, 2009 the Los Angeles County Museum of Art announced that it was deaccessioning more than 100 items from its costumes and textiles collection. Once carefully collected, catalogued, and cared for, these items have now been cast back out in to the world. What will happen to them? Like any other useless item, they will need to be recycled or disposed of.

Recycle LACMA is a project of Los Angeles-based artist Robert Fontenot. At three separate auctions he purchased over 50 items deaccessioned by LACMA and is now trying to find new uses for these otherwise unwanted items.

Although each item has not yet been used, each item can have a use.

Recycle LACMA blog

NPR Weekend Edition Story


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[Text and graphic from Recycle LACMA blog. The photograph displays a Korean Girl's Hood recycled as a sling.]