Bill and Table

Originally uploaded by Buffalo ReUse

A rare picture of Bill’s front side (had to sneak up on him and capture him near a mirror).

Bill made this table, suitable for a bedroom or a large front hall, from Buffalo ReUsed Materials. He and Tracy brought it over to the ReSource the other day, where it’s on sale (all proceeds benefit our community programs) for $200.

Come on by and check it out!

Paint me EXCITED!
I am beaming because Diane sent us images of her submission for our first-ever fashion show of garbage couture! If you know a fashionista, designer or dumpster diver who might be interested in creating some clothing for the show–please forward them the link for the CALL FOR ARTISTS. The deadline to submit your design is October 13th, but don’t wait because there are a lot of other details to take care of!

If you’d like to help with the exhibiton, please email volunteer {at} buffaloreuse(.)org

ReTHREAD
Thursday, October 21st
7–10pm
ArtSpace
1219 Main Street in Midtown Buffalo

Info here.

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“Social Dress Buffalo – The Past Reflecting the Future” June 18, 2010 – Sunday August 7, 2010
A Meet&Greet with Takashi including a presentation, workshop, and latex casting demonstration will take place on Friday, May 21, 2010 from 12-2 p.m. at Buffalo ReUse, located at 298 Northampton Street, Buffalo.

This will be a great opportunity for everyone to meet and learn more about the artist’s process.  We hope you can make it!  PLEASE NOTE:  Those with latex allergies are welcome to attend but are advised not to participate in the casting process, as pure liquid latex will be used.

Please see the following videos which explain Takashi’s project in Buffalo:
Takashi video Part 1 | Takashi video Part 2 | Takashi video Part 3

A major component of Takashi’s work is conversations with local activist groups such as Buffalo ReUse and PUSH Buffalo – organizations that have expressed interest in the project – that address the ideas behind the construction of this small-scale monument. Inspired by the simple solutions such as urban gardens and community-building activities, this project is intended to inspire a sense of togetherness and similarity of purpose within the community so as to foster empowerment among local citizens that may inspire creativity in local responses to this ongoing crisis.
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The Food and Emerging Media Speaker Series continues with visual/media artist, independent curator, and educator Kathy High.
“Interspecies Collaborations: Artists and Animal Stories” is a re-examination and re-consideration of how animals within our food systems are viable to our ecosystem beyond their function as merely food sources, pets or pests.  Tuesday, April 6th at 6pm at the Burchfield Penney. The event is Free and Open to the Public

High produces videos and installations posing queer and feminist questions into areas of medicine/bio-science, science fiction, and animal/interspecies collaborations. Her art works have been screened in galleries and museums nationally and internationally, and she has received awards for her media works from the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among others.

In the last ten years she has become interested in working with living systems, animals and biology and art.  See Video Data Bank for information on video work by K.High

A group art show presented by CFGB (Community Foundation for Great Buffalo) and FEHR (Family Environmental Health Resources) designed to raise awareness about the issues surrounding safe housing and healthy children.

Call for artists

The art show is designed to show by picture and word, how to be aware of, how to identify and how to protect your children from dangers and toxins in the environment. 

The show will highlight the conditions of and remedies necessary to take an unsafe, unhealthy home and make it a safe and healthy environment for all members of the family, especially children.  Artwork in all medium and written word which embodies the aforementioned themes presented will be graciously accepted for exhibit.

We anticipate works showing the positive themes (good nutrition, safe homes, and active kids) as well as negative themes (deteriorated housing, urban blight, and under-utilized parks).  We invite works that highlight urban problems, and offer solutions for green and healthy homes, in Buffalo and beyond.

Show:  April 16^th-22^nd at 464 Gallery, 464 Amherst Street Buffalo, NY 14207

Hours:
Friday, 4/16/10: 12-6pm
Saturday, 4/17/10: 11-6pm
Monday, 4/19/10: TBD
Tuesday, 4/20/10: Reception time TBD
Wednesday, 4/21/10: 12-6pm
Thursday, 4/22/10: 12-6pm

For more about 464 Gallery:  http://www.mindweb.us/Welcome.html

To offer a piece for the show email to Marcus Weiss at: mindweb.us {at} mac(.)com

Thanks to an idea and some support by Bill & Melanie Wolski of Briarwood Farm, we are proud to announce that we’ll have a 12month wall calendar available for gift-giving this year.  If you know someone who would appreciate knowing the date, holidays and moon phases for 2010 combined with some great photos of volunteers, shenanigans and reuse treasures–this may be the gift for them!  On top of all that, they’ll know you donated proceeds to our Community Programs on their behalf!

The calendars are $20.00. There will be a limited supply so we are accepting pre-orders. You can pay online at this page. A big THANKS to Brittany Webster, a design student at Daemen, for donating her time and talents to make this calendar a reality.  We know you will be proud to hang this up at your home or office!

UB students from Stephanie Rothenberg’s class spent the semester creating design work for Sweet_ness 7, Buffalo Blue Bike and Buffalo ReUse. Their job was to communicate the mission and vision of each group and to create some collateral materials.

Come see what they came up with … and be seen. All are welcome!!
Encourage these young designers as they move forward, and support them in their journey of discovering how their skills and interests can help the community!

Their opening reception will be December 3rd, from 6-9 pm at the Grant Street Gallery. Refreshments provided by Tim Herzog of Flying Bison and whatever the students can dice and nuke in their dorms.

“Wastelands” are areas that for multiple reasons have been left behind: They are areas formerly used for the extraction of earth resources, they are abandoned zones of industries, they are empty houses or vacant lots in deserted neighbourhoods, they are the spaces beneath and next to large infrastructural networks, they are empty parking lots after dark, and they are business districts outside business hours.

From the starting point of investigating the spatial, material and structural qualities of different types of wastelands in Buffalo, we aim to expand our understanding of those places and, consequently, to see the different possibilities for re-interpretation and re-inhabitation that the sites provide.

Our investigations take form as a number of short stories told through different medias, such as photo, map, collage, and video.

Opening reception: Grant Street Gallery on Tuesday November 3rd, 6.30 — 9.00 pm.

On view: Wednesday November 4th, 9 am – 9 pm.

Michael-John Bailie, Paul Dudkowski, Ernest Ng H.H. and Dan Stripp would like to invite all to attend a viewing of Quad Space Saturday, Oct 17th between 12-5pm. The House is located at 139 Howell St, Buffalo, NY 14207.

Quad Space is an insertion of an architectural academic exercise as a full-scale constructed exploration to spatially and structurally manipulate and define the division of four spaces within a 400 sqf house. This collaborative thesis project is strengthened and necessitated by the nature, scale and logistics of a full scale architectural construction exercise involving coordination, compromises and negotiations by four individuals, while also being challenged and contorted by the conventions of the academia and its definition of a thesis work as a purely individual exercise.

This thesis acknowledges and provokes the typical American view of domesticity by challenging the perception of conventionally extensive spatial needs within the ideal American home and domestic landscape, by redefining and reinterpreting conventional building codes requirements for minimal living.

Project: Quad Space
Authors: Michael-John Bailie, Paul Dudkowski, Ernest Ng H.H., Dan Stripp
Thesis Committee: Professor Mehrdad Hadighi (Committee chair), Dr Jean La Marche, Professor Annette LeCuyer, Jose Chang
Institution: University at Buffalo, Department of Architecture
Contributors: Blackrock Neigborhood Housing Works, Alp Steel Corp., J.W. Danforth, CIR Electrical Construction Corp, Wendel Duchscherer Architects