Recycled, ReInvented: Scrap Turned Into Art | Mission Dist.

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Scroungers’ Center for Reusable Art Parts (SCRAP), is the oldest non-profit creative reuse center in the San Francisco Bay Area. View the works of a group of talented artists who dedicate a portion of their time and energy as staff members at SCRAP. This exhibit is a collective demonstration of how the SCRAP environment shapes us and helps the communities we live in.

For artists, writers and actors, working at SCRAP offers constant visual and tactile stimulation while handling, assessing and organizing the never-ending flow of donated materials that pass through SCRAP, and that will ultimately be reinvented or repurposed as they pass into new hands. Working at SCRAP requires the ability to decipher, break down and organize a seemingly infinite stream of materials. The challenge is a brainteaser of creative decisions made quickly and constantly. After absorbing and reacting to the SCRAP work environment, these artists leave and engage in their individual creative processes. The resulting works of art explore the concepts of inevitability, disconnection, reinvention and re-distribution.

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