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REUTERS 2020

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Sheilagh McCafferty’s eyes lit up as she pulled apart one of a pile of vape cartridges, a treasure trove of wiring, lithium batteries and light-emitting diode (LED) dots that the costume designer used to decorate some of her creations.

The “carts” - single-use e-cigarette devices often found littering American beaches and hiking trails - were the source of 150 shiny LED dots that the Sacramento-based artist salvaged to bedazzle a pink wool jacket, known as “If Jackie O Vaped.” The embellished jacket is one of the highlights of a new exhibit in Sacramento, California, featuring artworks made from disassembled cartridges. The show, called “Carts for the Arts,” is intended in part to call attention to the growing problem of vape litter and the need for manufacturers to redesign single-use products into reusable and recyclable devices. The exhibit, sponsored by Up Kindness, a non-profit that promotes sustainability, runs through Feb. 28 at the Atrium, a gallery in California’s capital city.

“It’s a strong message: Can’t we do something about the waste?” said McCafferty, 64, one of 13 artists in the show. With recreational marijuana legal in California, used carts in the state often contain cannabis residue, leading California to classified them as hazardous waste. As a result, leading recycling businesses steer clear of them, and the carts often end up tossed out as litter or thrown into landfills.

McCafferty, who is better known in the design world for creating elaborate wedding gowns adorned with pearls and sequins, said her ornamental use of LED dots was “a fashionable way to share our desire for a more sustainable future.” In the vape cartridges, the LED display lights up to indicate that the cart is being used or battery power is running low. Among the other pieces in the show is a necklace made of copper wire, glass chambers and silicone washers, all cannibalized from vape carts. There is a silver lame fabric purse with a handle made from plastic zip ties interwoven with glass vape chambers.

2019 WINTER IMAGES

Upcycle Pop was held on December 15, 2019 at the Atrium at 7300 Folsom Blvd. Sacramento California. Below are some happy faces, talented creatives and cool art from the eco friendly holiday shopping event.

UpcyclePop is a collective of eco conscience artists who work on building educational interactive exhibits and installations. Upcycle Pop holds an eco holiday market for repurposed and upcycled art, furniture, fashion, home design, and inventions a few times a year. We create interactive educational experiences for organizations and government entities. During an Upcycle Pop market, watch artists create works of art from discarded items, experience intimate live performances, drink for a good cause and play with the interactive art installations. Remake, play, shop, eat and get creative.

Knowing it is impossible to indefinitely run a linear system on a finite planet, our goal is to forward the transition towards a circular economy.

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Clinton Petrino - Carts for the Arts 2019 - Up Kindness

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GOOD DAY SAC 2019

Upcycle Pop Eco Holiday Fair returns! The hosts are finding out more about the conscious and sustainable holiday shopping experience. UpcyclePop is a collective of eco conscience artists who work on building educational interactive exhibits and installations. Upcycle Pop holds an eco holiday market for repurposed and upcycled art, furniture, fashion, home design, and inventions a few times a year. We create interactive educational experiences for organizations and government entities. During an Upcycle Pop market, watch artists create works of art from discarded items, experience intimate live performances, drink for a good cause and play with the interactive art installations. Remake, play, shop, eat and get creative. Knowing it is impossible to indefinitely run a linear system on a finite planet, our goal is to forward the transition towards a circular economy.

CANNABIS TIMES 2019

Up Kindness, Inc - DBA The Atrium 916 is calling attention to the challenges surrounding vape cartridge recycling with an upcycled art exhibit, and brainstorming solutions through panel discussions.

Up Kindness has a lofty mission to create a kind and sustainable future for all, and the Sacramento, Calif.-based nonprofit is making strides toward achieving this goal after a Dec. 15 panel discussion that brought industry stakeholders together to discuss the environmental concerns surrounding disposable vape cartridges.

The organization partnered with cannabis brand Big Karma and product design firm Canna Co-Operative to hold the discussion with statewide experts, which included panelists such as National Stewardship Action Council Executive Director Heidi Sanborn, GAIACA Waste Revitalization Director of Services Maria Espinoza, Zuber Lawler & Del Duca Law Managing Partner Tom Zuber, Big Karma’s Michelle Dougherty and NUG’s Dante Pasquini.

California law leaves most recycling plants unable to accept certain byproducts of the legal cannabis industry, Up Kindness Executive Director Shira Lane tells Cannabis Business Times. Used vape cartridges, post-extraction biomass and any form of THC were left uncategorized under the federal and state laws that govern hazardous waste.

During the organization’s recent panel discussion, experts discussed the need not only to categorize cannabis waste at the state and federal level, but also to manufacture vape cartridges in such a way that they are easy for recyclers to dismantle and process, Lane says.

“We’re using the word ‘disposable,’ where people believe they can throw these in the trash,” Lane says. “Really, you can’t. You can’t throw them in the trash. You can’t recycle them. There’s nothing you can do about them, and many people are just collecting them in their homes, not knowing what to do.”

This led Up Kindness, Big Karma and Canna Co-Operative to collect manufacturing reject cartridges (which had never touched the plant) and task artists with converting them into upcycled art pieces.

“We wanted to collect these used cartridges and turn them into art pieces so they would be statement pieces to highlight the problem,” Lane says. “There’s no real regulation on what to do in a post-consumer world for these.”

Up Kindness then launched Carts for the Arts, an art exhibit made from empty vape cartridges. The exhibit made its debut Dec. 15 to coincide with the panel discussion and to raise awareness about the complex issue of vape recycling.

The artwork was made through UpcyclePop, a subsidiary of Up Kindness that is made up of 300 upcycle artists.

Up Kindness now plans to take the Carts for the Arts exhibit to different cities to continue spreading awareness and to allow more cannabis manufacturers and brands to be a part of the solution.

Up Kindness also operates The Atrium, a creative innovation center focused on sustainability. The Atrium works with start-up companies on sustainability goals, as well as helps existing companies transition to more sustainable practices, Lane says.

The California Legislature is currently taking up S.B. 424, a bill that would require all components of tobacco vapes to be completely recyclable. Lane says it is only a matter of time before similar legislation affects the cannabis industry, and stakeholders should be willing to work together to find an amicable way to move forward.

“The cannabis industry needs to … keep an eye on this because this might [pass],” she says. “Instead of people being on two sides and fighting, how about we bring people together for a kind conversation? … How can we move together and do the right thing? … There are a lot of components. There’s not just one thing that needs to happen—there are a lot of players that need to come together and work together.”

And that, Lane adds, is the purpose of Up Kindness’ ongoing panel discussions, with the next one slated to be held in Oakland on a to-be-determined date.

“We’re going to continue this conversation with the panelists, and we want the conversation to be open, … so it’s more of an open-door meeting and figuring out solutions,” she says. “We’d like anybody to come and be part of that conversation, … and maybe the cannabis industry can be a leader in sustainability. How about that?"

READ THE ARTICLE ON CANNABIS TIMES

LEAF ONLINE 2019

Disposable vapes and cartridges reach new highs every day and with them an enormous amount of post-consumer waste. According to BDS Analytics, vape cartridges are the fastest-growing sector of California’s $2.5 billion cannabis industry. Millions of power supplies and cartridges are produced every year, and California is expected to account for nearly one-fourth of all cannabis sales in the U.S. by 2024.

With no avenue for recycling these products, it has a serious waste crisis to solve. A December 15 art show in Sacramento, UpcyclePop: Eco Holiday Market and Carts for the Arts Premier Exhibit, draws attention to this issue.

Finding an opportunity in trash

To call attention to the problem, Up Kindness, a Sacramento nonprofit, in partnership with Big Karma, a socially responsible cannabis brand, and product design firm Canna Co-Operative, will hold a panel discussion with statewide experts as well as Carts for the Arts, an exhibit of works made from empty vape carts, December

Panelists include Heidi Sanborn, executive director of the National Stewardship Action Council; Maria Espinoza, Director of Services for GAIACA Waste Revitalization; Tom Zuber, managing partner, Zuber Lawler & Del Duca Law; Michelle Dougherty, Big Karma; and Dante Pasquini, NUG. Artists scheduled to exhibit include Christina Pate, Thumpcase, Thomas Ramey, Seth Dougherty, Yennie Zhou, and Franceska J. Gamez.

“California needs to take action to address the waste problem of getting wasted,” said Shira Lane, executive director of Up Kindness. “The very regulations that were intended to keep cannabis safe and sustainable are restricting the industry from adopting easy, environmentally-friendly recycling programs that manufacturers, brands, dispensaries, and environmental advocates are calling for.”

SN&R 2019

There’s no shortage of holiday gifts this season, and with them comes the abundance of holiday waste. At least one-holiday market is making it a goal to be zero waste: Upcycle Pops’ Eco Holiday Market. You can shop for gifts that have found second or higher lives and give them good homes, all while perusing and having some bring-your-own-reusable-cup drinks. There will also be a fashion show, a panel discussion and much more. 7300 Folsom Blvd., Read more on Sacramento News and Review - SNR

UpcyclePop, located in Sacramento, is a playful interactive eco market for artistically repurposed and upcycled art, furniture, fashion, home design, and inventions. Watch artists create works of art from discarded items, play with the interactive art installations. It is Americas first upcycle market and is free to the public.

CREATIVE ECONOMY

This monthly Creative Economy meeting will host a panel discussion on the financial future of the Creative Economy - “Funding Strategies for Arts and the Creative Economy”.

The panel - Sacramento Mayor, Darrell Steinberg, Julie Baker, Executive Director of Californians for the Arts and Dennis Mangers, Strategic Advisor to the Mayor. Moderated by Bill Blake, former managing director of B Street wit ha Q&A session.

All interested members of the public are invited with free parking. Held at The Atrium, a Creative Innovation Center for Sustainability, where creative individuals come together to use their creativity for the common good.

For more information - Maya Wallace created #SAVESACARTS

Why is this meeting so important?

SACRAMENTO CITY MANAGEMENT CUTS ALMOST ALL FUNDING FOR ARTS, CULTURE AND ARTS EDUCATION FROM PROPOSED 2019/20 CITY BUDGET. CURRENT PROPOSAL ROLLS BACK FUNDING FOR THE ARTS TO 2007 LEVEL.

The head of the City’s Convention and Cultural Services Department collaborated with her staff, produced a budget proposal for FY 2019/20 and forwarded it to the City Manager as directed. She proposed an allocation of $760,000 for next year which represents only the restoration of the .5 % of the TOT (Transient Occupancy Tax) taken from her department during the last recession.

But, as she reported to Commissioners at the recent meeting of SMAC, the City Manager denied even this modest request and informed her that any funding for the implementation of the Creative Edge would have to be secured through the competitive Measure U Committee process.

The $500,000 one-time allocation directed to the department by the Mayor as he assumed office was not renewed by the City Manager and with the imminent separation of SMAC from the County, another $400,000 is likely to be lost as well. BOTTOM-LINE, if the city arts budget for next year remains as proposed by the City Manager, there will be no money for grants to artists and non -profits working with kids in our underserved neighborhoods, there will be no money for the next phase of the Creative Economy Pilot Program, there will be no money for arts education and no hope of implementing the objectives of the recently adopted cultural plan!

We hope you find that as unacceptable as we do and will join us in demanding a different outcome.

The timeline for budget consideration is as follows:

April 23- 2019/20 proposed budget released by City Manager

April 30- Proposed budget reviewed by the Budget and Audit Committee (Entire City Council) BE THERE!

May 14- Proposed budget overview of smaller department budgets by Council. BE THERE!

May 21- Council budget hearings 2 and 5 PM. BE THERE!

May 28- Budget hearing if needed. BE THERE!

June 4- Proposed budget approved by the Budget and Audit Committee. BE THERE!

June 11- Approval of budget by the city council. BE THERE!

Our first advocacy steps should be as follows and should commence as soon as possible: Call the City Manager’s office at 916-808-7488 to protest the proposed zero budget for the arts and support the 2.2 million alternative. Also, email him at hchan@cityofsacramento.org and copy Assistant City manager for Economic Development, Michael Jasso at mjasso@cityofsacramento.org.

Call the Mayor’s office at 916-808-5300, again protesting the proposed zero budget for arts and lobbying strongly for him and the council to embrace the 2.2-million-dollar alternative. Go online to the City website, click on the mayor’s office and fill out the form.

Copy emails or generate specific and personalized ones to all council members and call their offices:

District 1- CM Angelique Ashby 916-808-7001, aashby@cityofsacramento.org

District 2- CM Allen Warren 916-808-7002, awarren@cityofsacramento.org

District 3- CM Jeff Harris 916-808-7003, jsharris@cityofsacramento.org

District 4- CM Steve Hansen 916-916-808-7004, shansen@cityofsacramento.org

District 5- CM Jay Schenirer 916-808-7005, jschenirer@cityofsacramento.org

District 6- Vice-Mayor Eric Guerra 916-808-7006, eguerra@cityofsacramento.org

District 7- CM Rick Jennings 916-808-7007, rjennings@cityofsacramento.org

District 8- Cm Larry Carr 916-808-7008, lcarr@cityofsacramento.org

Please circulate this ALERT to all individuals, and organizations in the arts, culture and creative economy sector and allies. All staff, board members, subscribers, patrons, etc. should be urged to make these calls and send emails. Let them know we will be organizing interested parties to go to the city hall for personal meetings with mayor and council and attending and speaking at City council meetings.

Many worked hard for two years on former Mayor Kevin Johnson’s “For Art's Sake” initiative only to find at the end that the City was not prepared to provide any resources to fund its recommendations. For the last two years, hundreds of us participated in the Creative Edge cultural planning process and strongly supported Measure U having been told that this time things would be different

The economy is strong, and revenues are high. If they do this now, what will they do when the inevitable recession hits.? The arts are a core city service, every bit as important as police, fire, public works, parks or any other sector of city responsibility. Creative Arts Heals.

WE MUST ALL COME TOGETHER TO CREATE A CREATIVE FORCE, ONE THE CITY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO PUSH TO THE SIDELINES AGAIN.

SN&R

It’s a holiday market made for people who believe in gift reincarnation. Crafts at this event come from discarded items that have been repurposed, so come see the art, clothing, and furniture you need to furnish your life and stock your season with a bevy of environmentally conscious gifts. Also, there’s live music and drinks, interactive artwork, panel discussions and more. It’s more than just your average holiday market—check it out. 7300 Folsom Boulevard.
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Sacramento Eco Holiday Market - Upcycle Pop

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UPCYCLE POP ECO HOLIDAY FAIR RETURNS – A CONSCIOUS AND SUSTAINABLE HOLIDAY SHOPPING EXPERIENCE

Upcycle Pop, America’s first upcycle market, returns with interactive art, art cars, panel discussions and a wide variety of repurposed eco gifts for the upcoming holiday season with its indoor eco holiday market.

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov 9, 2018 – Upcycle Pop, the playful eco-friendly holiday market, has added a lineup of live local bands and panel discussions to its zero-waste holiday market.

On Sunday December 2, 2018 from noon to 6 p.m., guests are invited to play with interactive installations, immerse in panel discussions, watch artists as they demonstrate their art and shop sustainably for the holiday season at this interactive make-and-sell holiday market event, all while savoring kombucha, beer and wine for a good cause.

The art gallery will premiere pop art exhibit ‘Evil Empire’ by Brock Alexander and hold five immersive panel discussions with topics ranging from Ecology, Artist Opportunities, Costuming, Burning Man and Consent.

SVS, Sacramento Valley Spark, a non-profit that awards grants to local artists, will be fundraising and leading the panel discussions that will consist of a thought-provoking mix of government, business executives and the ‘burner’ community. All beer and wine proceeds help SVS create more opportunities for local artists.

“There is a lot of intrigue about Burning Man,” Ed Fletcher, Board President for the non-profit organization loosely affiliated with the popular counter-culture event Burning Man. “We would like to demystify the event while giving artists hoping to build an art car or bring art to Burning Man useful information.”

“The concept of upcycling is a perfect fit for burners,” Fletcher said. “This is a great way to showcase some of our fantastic community talents – from costuming to art cars. Our discussions will be a fun way to get a glimpse into some of the local artists and their desert projects.”

“For many, consumerism takes the fun out of gifting during the holidays,” Shira Lane, Upcycle Pop Market Director. “Holiday shopping should be fun, thoughtful and creative with a push towards sustainability and that is what Upcycle Pop is all about. A playful, eco-friendly and inspiring holiday fair that highlights our immediate need to take action on our throwaway economy.”

“Feel good about your gift, it is repurposed, unique, and made by a talented artist in your community that you just met,” Lane said. “The holiday shopping season is a great time to support the ethical artists and makers of the local creative economy and when more people learn about the opportunities that exist in building a circular economy, the faster we can get there.”

The event is free, with interactive installations for all ages and open to the public with free parking.

What:               Upcycle Pop Spark
When:             Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018
Hours:             Noon – 6 pm
Where:             7300 Folsom Boulevard, Sacramento CA 95826

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About Sacramento Valley Spark:
Sacramento Valley Spark is a 501(c)3 non-profit whose mission is to promote the arts, self-expression, and enact positive social change in our community.

About Upcycle Pop:
Upcycle Pop is a community of eco-artists that work together to create an interactive indoor holiday market for artistically repurposed art, furniture, fashion, home design, and inventions. Upcycle Pop, market and lab are projects of Unleashed Productions, a media and marketing agency that works solely with organizations that give a damn.

UPcyclePOP #3 Art Installation by Lillie Mott

GOOD DAY SAC #3

Good Day Sacramento at UPcyclePOP for its third Remade in Sacramento event.

UPcyclePOP, Fathers Summer, is the third event from production company Unleashed Productions within 7 months. A unique playful pop-up market for artistically repurposed art, furniture, fashion, home design, and inventions. Watch artists repurpose discarded items into works of art and find the perfect sustainable fathers day gift. Sip wine or beer for a good cause, play with the interactive art installations, enjoy live music, open mike and shop sustainably. Support our local creative economy and have fun.

All beer and wine proceeds go to the non-profit MusicLandria, Sacramento’s free musical library, dedicated to breaking down the barriers to musical exploration. The event is free, open to the public with free parking.

UPcyclePOP is Americas first upcycle market, started by Shira Lane, who is a leading advocate of ‘upcycling’, encouraging people to find new uses for discarded items. The goal of the event is to increase environmental awareness in regards to our throwaway economy, and in the process, we are boosting our local creative economy. Good upcycling is an art form.

Remake, play, shop, eat and get creative.

Saturday, June 9th, 2018

7300 Folsom Blvd, Sacramento

Noon- 6pm

Upcyclepop.com

Full publication can be found on CBS Good Day Sacramento

SACTOWN MAGAZINE

Five playful ways to start celebrating with your Valentine this weekend. UPcyclePOP‘s Valentine’s Day market will feature upcycled works from local artists, mural painting, a pop-up theater and more. Looking for a last-minute Valentine’s Day gift? This interactive pop-up market, which hosted its inaugural event in December, will feature the upcycled works of over 40 local makers, including Mike Jones, who turns antique barn materials into functional furniture, Mira Cukrov, who makes earrings out of bicycle tubes, and Kaden Hill, who converts anything from tackle boxes to suitcases into Bluetooth speakers. Visitors can also rewrite scripts and watch performances at a pop-up theater, help local artist Tony Byrnes paint a permanent mural on a large indoor wall with the hashtag #LoveUp, as well as create heart-shaped Valentine’s Day cards out of recycled construction paper and cardboard.

Full Article on Sactown Magazine.

Shira Lane - with UPcyclePOP at 7300 Folsom Blvd

SACRAMENTO BEE

In an alternate universe, Shira Lane is still a Sacramento artist who hasn’t connected with the Sacramento city creatively.

Until the city launched the “Creative Economy” grant program over the summer, Lane, a documentary filmmaker, lived here but didn’t intellectually play here. While she had physically moved – reluctantly at first – to Sacramento two years ago, her video production work remained in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Six months later, she spent the final week of 2017 showing artists around a 38,000-square-foot office building near the Sacramento State campus. She has reached a deal with the landlord to turn a portion of the building into “Upcycle Pop Lab,” a shared workspace for other creatives looking for connection and a desk to call their own.

“I’m trying to find out what people can pay and reverse engineer it,” said Lane, as she showed three prospective tenants the spacious 7300 Folsom Boulevard office building, which in mid-December hosted her UpcyclePOP, a temporary (or pop-up) market selling art, furniture, fashion and furnishings made from existing materials.

The three days of UPcyclePOP attracted hundreds of people as more than a dozen local artists displayed and sold their works, from end tables made from car pistons to televisions with the appearance of old tube sets to ash trays turned into beautiful windows. Prior to the event, she knew none of the artists.

Lane, 41, said she had passed through Sacramento on the way to the Burning Man festival from her then-home in Marin County, but she’d never considered moving here until her partner took a Capitol job.

“I didn’t want to move to Sacramento; I was scared,” said the Australian native, explaining that California’s capital is the least-populated place she has lived. Read the full Article here

MSN

She didn’t want to come to Sacramento. Now she’s helping build its new economy.

UPcyclePOP was just one of several temporary events that in recent years turned vacant Sacramento buildings into short-term art installations or artists markets – ArtHotel, ArtStreet and Makers Mart events are among the most notable.

In an alternate universe, Shira Lane is still a Sacramento artist who hasn’t connected with the city creatively. Until the city launched the “Creative Economy” grant program over the summer, Lane, a documentary filmmaker, lived here but didn’t intellectually play here. While she had physically moved – reluctantly at first – to Sacramento two years ago, her video production work remained in San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Six months later, she spent the final week of 2017 showing artists around a 38,000-square-foot office building near the Sacramento State campus. She has reached a deal with the landlord to turn a portion of the building into “Upcycle,” a shared workspace for other creatives looking for connection and a desk to call their own. Read the full article

UPcyclePOP Americas first upcycle market

SUBMERGE MAGAZINE

This Valentine’s Day, get creative with your gifts and save the planet in the process! UPcyclePOP is an interactive pop-up market that will take place at 7300 Folsom Blvd. the Sunday before Valentine’s, solely featuring items that have been repurposed and reclaimed. This event is family-friendly, and the perfect opportunity to support the sustainability of our artistic community, shop consciously, discover unique art created by local artists, and to browse creatively upcycled art, inventions, furniture, style and home design. In addition, you will have the to chance to play with interactive art installations, participate in pop-up theater, sip wine, listen to jazz (courtesy of Take 7 and the Sacramento Jazz Quartet) and to watch artists create one-of-a-kind pieces out of discarded materials. You can also use the items provided at the market to create your own art and valentine gifts. The market will take place from noon–6 p.m. Admission and public parking for the event is free. Visit Facebook.com/upcyclepop for more details about Valentine’s Day Market and the local remakers, crafters, artists and eco-entrepreneurs who will be participating in this year’s event. Full Article Here

ABC10 NEWS

From ABC10 news: UPcyclePOP, a new kind of holiday market. The pop-up shop is comprised of artwork repurposed and upcycled art, furniture, fashion, home design, and inventions. Visitors can watch artists create work from discarded items, or try a workshop or two.

UPcyclePOP calls itself “America’s first upcycle market.” The event creators urge everyone to “remake, play, shop, eat and get creative.” The holiday market is the brainchild of Bay Area resident Shira Lane, who moved to Sacramento about 2 years ago.

Lane came up with the event in October after learning about the Creative Economy Pilot Project in Sacramento. She had travelled to other countries and seen their upcycle markets but realized there were none in the U.S. Lane didn’t get the grant but was able to have the event anyway due to support from local artists and the Power Inn Alliance.

The pop-up market beings at 1:30 p.m. at 7300 Folsom Blvd. It will run until 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 16. It will also be open on Sunday, Dec. 17 from 11 a.m. until 7 p.m

Thank you ABC10 for creating this piece.

Here is the link to the video – on their website – http://www.abc10.com/news/local/sacramento/upcyclepop-pop-up-holiday-market-comes-to-sacramento/499919228

Photography by Kachiside Madu - Upcyclepop Dec 2017 event. Remade in Sacramento - America's first upcycle market.

FOX40 LIVE SHOW

Upcyclepop was featured on the Fox40 live morning show on the opening day of our first UpcyclePOP on December 14, 2017. Here is what they wrote:

From old dishware to retro furniture pieces, to straight-up trash, items are seen in an innovative fresh way are built up into works of art.It’s called upcycling and you can find local artists displaying, selling and teaching about their work at the UPcyclePOP event happening through Sunday, December 17, 2017 in Sacramento.

“They are going to say, ‘That’s made out of what? Like that was what?'” UPcyclePOP organizer Shira Lane said. Nick Lopez got tired of burning old fence wood and now creates beautifully handcrafted sculptures out of chopped-up pieces of scrap wood.”You don’t have to buy it and that’s what it was for me. I didn’t have a lot of money to buy a bunch of raw materials to start making my art,” Lopez said. “I just used what was there.”

Magnus Rubsam takes the 1950s and 60s television sets and restores them using original parts while keeping the clean mid-century look.Most of his TVs he picks up on the side of the road.”Once I get the set I take it all apart and then look it over and determine what’s exactly needed what parts I have on hand that are going to fit and everything pretty much has to be built from scratch,” he said.

Lane says the goal of this UPcyclePOP is to inspire people to think of innovative ways to reuse their trash, to prevent garbage from accumulating on our planet. “So I hope that they will start looking at things that they have at their home and instead of going into the trash,” Lane said. “They’ll be like, ‘Wait a minute, there is something we can do something with this.'”

For more information on UPcyclePOP, click here.

UpcyclePOP - Remade in Sacramento - Americas first upcycle market

GOOD DAY SAC SETUP

Upcyclepop was fortunate to have the crew of Good Day Sacramento come and tour opening day of the first-ever upcycle market in the United States, December 14th, 2017. Alisa goes around the market space in the early hours of the morning as artists were setting up to get a feel of what was going to happen in the space hours from then. Artists featured here: Rare Bird Stereos, Thirdsman Ashton Bohm, Thomas Ramey. Mike Jones, Mira Cukrov, and Harumi Designs.

Thank you Good Day Sacramento for being always so interested in upcycling and highlighting the importance of love to our environment.

GOOD DAY SAC GALLERY

Upcyclepop was featured on opening day of the market on Good Day Sacramento. Here is Alisa touring the country’s first upcycle market starting in the Gallery space, one of three spaces in the UpcyclePOP market that occurred December 14-17, 2017. Art featured here is Nick Lopez, Magnus Rubsam, Mikkey Abbey, Shawn Caton and Keinan Becker.

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