My World Tour Plan

Wherever I travel, I like to look for people doing creative reuse. Here’s my running list of people I want to meet for when I travel. The keywords I use when searching for these people are creative recycling, fiber art or folk art center, school of crafts, scrap, textile center and upcycled.

EVENTS IN MULTIPLE LOCATIONS

ALABAMA

  • Alabama Chanin – Organic cotton design awesomeness – in Florence

ARGENTINA

AUSTRALIA

BRITISH COLUMBIA

CALIFORNIA

  • A Place to Grow – Greenhouses from recycled windows & building supplies – in San Luis Obispo
  • Bolt Threads – Make a leather-like material from mycelium – in Emeryville
  • Camp Couture – Classes to make clothing from recycled materials – in San Mateo
  • Chimera Arts and Maker Space – A maker space – in Sebastopol
  • Couch Guitar Straps – Guitar straps & wallets from recycled seat belts – in Long Beach
  • East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse – creative reuse center – in Oakland
  • The Ecology Center – Ecology activities like farm tours & community meals – in San Juan Capistrano
  • FabMo – Rescue designer fabric scraps and host events for designers – in Sunnyvale
  • Fallen Fruit – Mapping fruit tree locations on public lands
  • Tess Felix – beach trash portrait artist – in Stinson Beach
  • Maranoni – Quilter and home goods designer Lorena Marañon – in Los Angeles
  • Mariana Nelson – creative reuse artists focusing on plastic, rope, thread – in Laguna Beach
  • Marty Ornish – Wearable art – in San Diego
  • Recology – Waste management facility artist-in-residence program – in San Francisco
  • Re-Create – Thrift store & studio, children’s creative reuse programs – in Rocklin
  • Rediscover Center – Connecting educators with recycled materials – in Los Angeles
  • Ruth’s Table – Maker space – in San Francisco
  • Scrap – The first of the “scrap” creative reuse centers – in San Francisco

CHILE

  • Artenosanas – Art from recycled CDs by Vanessa Silva

COLORADO

CONNECTICUT

DENMARK

  • Thomas Dambo – Wood and plastics artist – in Copenhagen – b

GERMANY

  • SirPlus – Grocery store that specializes in diverting food waste – in Berlin

HAWAII

ILLINOIS

INDIANA

JAPAN

MAINE

MARYLAND

MASSACHUSETTS

MICHIGAN

MINNESOTA

MISSOURI

NEWFOUNDLAND

NEW HAMPSHIRE

NEW JERSEY

NEW YORK

NORTH CAROLINA

NOVA SCOTIA

OHIO

  • Art Grange – Michelle Stitzlein, queen of plastic caps and one of my favorite artists – in Baltimore
  • Indigo Hippo – Art supply creative reuse center – in Cincinnati
  • Sherri Lynn Wood – Creative reuse improvisational fiber artist- in Cincinnati
  • Upcycle Parts Shop – creative reuse center – in Cleveland
  • Zero Landfill Cleveland – upcycling program for artists and art educators – in Cleveland

OREGON

PENNSYLVANIA

SWEDEN

TENNESSEE

TEXAS

UNITED KINGDOM

UTAH

VERMONT

VIRGINIA

WASHINGTON