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spare parts main objective:
Connect with various agencies/businesses & provide a steady supply of materials (otherwise thrown away) for the artistic community & educators. This will increase the creative & cultural energy of San Antonio.
paving the path By Erin Eggers and Marissa Villa / Conexion 2012 (please note: spare parts does not have 501(c)3 status)
spare parts supports:
CULTURAL & ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
AFFORDABILITY & ACCESSIBILITY TO THE ARTS
COMMUNITY, EDUCATION & CREATIVITY, GREEN-STYLE
The concept behind spare parts was developed in 2010 by Mary Elizabeth Cantu & responds to: a noted lack of creativity in K-12 classroom (The Creativity Crisis, Newsweek, July 2010); City of San Antonio’s “Creating a Pathway to Zero Waste” 10-year plan (Solid Waste Management Department, June 2010); dramatic budget cuts at state level for arts education programming (Legislative Budget 2012-2013 Biennium); an increase in art degree offerings (International Academy of Design & Technology-2009, The Art Institute of San Antonio-2010, Southwest School of Art Bachelor of Fine Arts degree offering-2013); and a thriving arts & cultural community that makes a positive impact on the economy- $3.83 billion per year (Strategic Alliance for Business and Economic Research Institute and City of San Antonio study, 2006).
© Josh Huskin
spare parts in the news:
-Acts of Love
-Our American Dream: Mary Cantu, Turning Trash into Treasures in the Hands of Budding Artists
-Resolve to reduce-reuse-recycle
-Art and Science Forge Together to Launch Community Partnership
-10BitWorks to launch community partnership
-paving the path
-San Antonio Creatives: A Diaz & Diaz special photo project for The Rivard Report
-Spare Parts Studio needs some spare space
-Art With A Heart: Local Group Helps Teachers
-Reduce, reuse, recycle…and create
-Reduce, Reuse, Recycle at Galeria Guadalupe
-Teachers:Still Time to Register for Spare Parts Teacher Fair
-Space available at spare parts teacher fair
-Amy & Mary Go Thrifting
-Spare Parts: Imagination as Trash-eater
-Nonprofit Spare Parts recycles for the sake of art
-Art supplies round-up for schools at Blue Star
-East Austin Studio Tour
-sparepARTS needs arts materials for Teacher Fair
-School’s community CAMP program making trash into eco-friendly art
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