Announcing our first collection event for 2010 + we have a new Spring 2010 Wish-List!
WHAT: Indie Craft Revolution
WHEN: Saturday, March 13th 10 am-6pm and Sunday, March 14th from 10 am to 4 pm
WHERE: St. Louis Artists’ Guild (map)
Use your Upcycle Exchange coupons in-person with member artists who are participating in the show! Check out our [...]
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Indie Craft Revolution!
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Bookmaking Workshops at Finder’s Hive!
The Upcycle Exchange, in partnership with Finder’s Hive, is excited to announce a series of upcoming bookmaking workshops taught by Laura Anderson!
You’ll have access to an abundant variety of cool paper and vintage ephemera collected by The Upcycle Exchange, but you are welcome to bring your own special scraps as well! Laura is an attentive [...]
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Spring 2010 Open Enrollment
Open enrollment is open. Would you like to get your craft on? We are accepting applications from artists to become members of The Upcycle Exchange for a limited time!
What do you make stuff with? Buttons? Fabric? Yarn? Bottlecaps? Ephemera? Beads? Vintage anything? Evil Toasters? If it’s not already on our Wish-List, we’ll add it, and [...]
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Our New Home!
Sneak Preview! December 5th from 10 a.m. – 4p.m.
at CAMP Headquarters during Cherokee Print League!
(Attending The Big Ass Indie Art and Crafts Show? We’re just a few blocks away!)
Wow! We’ve come so far in less than a year. Movin’ on up to the South side…on Cherokee St. that is! The Upcycle Exchange has partnered up [...]
Big Ass Holiday Show!
Get a big-ass chunk of your holiday shopping done at the upcoming Big Ass Indie Art and Craft Show! Need some room in your closets to hide presents? The Upcycle Exchange is here to help. We’ll be on hand all weekend accepting items on our Wish-List. When you donate, we are offering FREE GIFT [...]
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The Strange Upcycle Exchange
This is THE BIG ONE folks! We have over 25 artists participating in The Upcycle Exchange at the upcoming Strange Folk Festival on September 26th & 27th in O’Fallon, IL. Strange Folk is one of the biggest indie craft shows of the year with 125 unique artists from all over the country, live bands, [...]
Inside an Upcycle Exchange
I get a lot of e-mail from other parts of the country interested in organizing Upcycle Exchanges of their own. My intention has always been to expand it as a Creative Commons project, like Swap-O-Rama-Rama. As you can see, our URL forwards to “Lucoop.com/pilot”. LuCoop stands for “Local Upcycling Co-ops”, and The Upcycle Exchange [...]
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Big Ass Indie Show 2009
It’s a Big Ass Upcycle Exchange! Drop-off wish list items at our booth near the entrance and receive a Coupon Book full of awesome discounts and give-aways from participating vendors!
The Big Ass Indie Art and Craft Show is a merchandised event with a central check-out. Due to this set-up, they will not be [...]
Save-it Forward!
Excuse our brief hiatus! I, Autumn, have been renovating a house for the past couple months, and we’re finally moved and settled in. So, back to business! Lots of catching up to do… First off, we have a couple big events coming up: The Big Ass Indie Craft Show and Strange Folk (still accepting vendor [...]
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Artropy 2009
When:
Saturday, April 25th – 9 am to 3:30 pm
Where:
SqWires – The Annex
Historic Lafayette Square
1415 South 18th Street
St. Louis, MO 63104
(See Map)
Exchange Info:
Drop-off wish list items at our booth upstairs and receive a Coupon Pass for 10% off all purchases from participating vendors, plus special give-aways while supplies last!
Our first Upcycle Exchange went so great, we [...]
