help us celebrate SCRAP’s annual fundraiser benefit: RePurposeful The Art of Collage and Assemblage at the Randall Museum. This exhibition is a celebration of SCRAP’s arts community highlighting an art form that brings disparate items together to create a new whole with a new purpose.

What kind of “collage and assemblage” work are we seeking?

We are looking to review both traditionally defined collage and assemblage from Bay Area artists. We are also looking for work that pushes these formal boundaries but is related to collage and assemblage in spirit. For instance, textile works like quilts are welcome for submission.

In addition, we are looking for interactive art pieces that exhibition attendees can participate in creating. Community Collage or tapestry ideas? Please share your ideas with us!

Key Dates
Deadline to submit: Midnight, August 27, 2021
Artwork Drop Off: September 8-10
Opening Night: October 1, 2021
Exhibition runs through December 31, 2021

Curatorial Statement

After a year of social isolation, we’ve re-engaged with our local communities and learned that through cooperation there is power to effect change. RePurposeful speaks to a renewed knowledge of our interdependence, and will serve as a celebration of the alchemy that occurs when bringing disparate and diverse parts together to create something new, better, more beautiful, and more purposeful.

Jurors

Chris Boettcher is the Director of Randall Museum and the Manager of SF Rec & Park Cultural Division.

Felisia Castañeda served seven years as an Education Specialist and Supervisor for the Recology Artist-in-Residence program. currently works as a Senior Associate at HF&H Consultants where she supports local jurisdictions with implementing robust recycling and composting programs.

Jeanne Gerrity is the Deputy Director and Head of Publications at the Wattis and has written for such publications as Artforum, Art Agenda, and Frieze.

Christine Koppes is the Curator and Director of Public Programs at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) San José, where she organizes exhibitions and public programs that explore the critical issues of our time through the lens of contemporary art, with an emphasis on emerging and mid-career California artists.

Mansur Nurullah is a Bay Area textile artist who transforms materials that are bound for the trash into tapestries, bags, dolls, and wallets.
 
About the Randall Museum

The Randall Museum is a museum of science, nature and the arts as well as a San Francisco Recreation and Park Department community learning center. OUR MISSION is to inspire creativity, curiosity, and a love of learning about the world around us. OUR VISION is to provide a hands-on community learning center with no entry fee where children and adults can explore STEM, nature, and the arts through engaging exhibits, activities, and classes. OUR VALUES are to promote learning, curiosity, creativity, fun, community, inclusivity, and sustainability.

About SCRAP

SCRAP is a non-profit creative reuse center and arts education nonprofit founded in 1976 in San Francisco, California. SCRAP breathes new life into old arts and crafts supplies and reduces waste by diverting over 200 tons of materials heading to landfill every year.

With RePurposeful we want to inspire new ideas, new aesthetics and new ways of thinking by assembling different ideas, cultures and points of view.

SCRAP and the Randall Museum are two long-standing Bay Area community nonprofits who share art, the environment, and education as core values to our missions.