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Upcycle St. Clair is a comprehensive arts-based strategy that shows how creative reuse can lift an entire Rust Belt neighborhood through education, community advancement and market-driven responses, demonstrating that creativity is the key to Cleveland's renewal. The project's keystone piece is the launching of Cleveland's first creative reuse center: Upcycle Parts Shop. A community-based arts center, Upcycle Parts Shop is open 4 days a week in the heart of the St. Clair neighborhood and connects neighbors to art, to materials, and to one another.
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See below for recent updates, press, and events from this project
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Jun 16, 2016
Nicole McGee has been a self-described "reuse artist" for several years, but her practice wasn't always her profession. Read More
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Oct 23, 2015
Creative reuse centers are shops or warehouses where you can buy materials in bulk that would otherwise wind up in the landfill. Geared towards artists,... Read More
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Sep 17, 2015
In Cleveland, Ohio more than a third of people live below the poverty line. Lee Chilcote discovers how the upcycling movement is becoming a force... Read More
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Aug 15, 2014
By Nicole McGee Updates So much momentum! • In May a small team of colleagues traveled to the Sign Museum in Cincinnati to spend the... Read More
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May 07, 2014
By Nicole McGee Here at Upcycle St. Clair we’re launching our creative reuse center, beginning our fellowship programs, hiring summer youth workers, planning for mural... Read More
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Mar 18, 2014
Updates Upcycle St. Clair is a comprehensive, arts-based strategy working to demonstrate how creative reuse can lift an entire Rust Belt neighborhood through education, community... Read More
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Feb 04, 2014
Students from Saint Martin de Porres High School in the St. Clair neighborhood tour of a local company that reclaims wood from buildings and homes... Read More
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Dec 27, 2013
On a snowy December evening, staff at Collective Upcycle, St. Clair’s newest retail business, welcomed more than a dozen crafters to the boutique for a... Read More
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Nov 12, 2013
Updates Upcycling is a creative art process that reimagines leftover, discarded materials and creatively transforms them into new products or pieces of art. It’s gaining... Read More
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Oct 09, 2013
The work of two Cleveland upcyclists who sell at the Flea and were featured in a recent article by Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter Allison Carey;... Read More
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Jul 31, 2013
Update Experimentation is a core value of our project and we’re fortunate to have energized creative people on our project team working together to make... Read More
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Jun 28, 2013
Update This past month we’ve been shouting from the rooftops about UrbanUpcycle. We find ourselves talking about our new project to business owners, community residents,... Read More