“Arts for Children and Youth (AFCY)’s Emerging Youth Artists Residency program goes to Goodwill Store (731 Runnymede Rd.) every Sunday from 12:00-3:00pm for the month of November.

Join AFCY Emerging Youth Artist, Tara Dorey at her residency, to promote Upcycled Artworks, an awareness campaign with the goal to encourage the public to rethink before they donate something ripped, broken, unusable or unsellable.

The Youth-Artist-in-Residence Program was designed to give opportunities for youth/developing artists to work in pop-up studios, making art and engaging in focused dialogues with the public. The key purpose of this campaign is to ultimately reduce the amount of unsellable household goods being donated to Goodwill (thereby reducing the amount of unsellable goods going into landfill), by publicly demonstrating creative ways to repurpose unusable goods, encouraging the production of artful upcycling, and by engaging in conversations with the public / customers about rethinking the use of these goods as potential resources for arts/cultural organizations.

Tara is interested in the connections of ‘The American Dream’ and Christian iconography as they are recycled into late 20th century pop cultural images and objects. The Youth-Artist-in-Residence Program will give Tara the opportunity to expand her artistic practice while advocating the notions of “RETHINK, reduce, reuse, recycle and UPCYCLE.”

“This will surely be a new source of inspiration for Tara, as she will be expanding her artistic abilities by creating unique and innovative artwork with unsellable items outside the conventional artistic realms and at the same time inspiring others to rethink the functionality of a chipped cup or a ripped sweater,” says Julie Frost, Executive and Artistic Director of AFCY.”

 

-submitted by Tharmila Rajasingam, Arts for Children and Youth
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