RAIR 2014
RAIR 2014 year in review
Message from our founders 2014 has been an amazing year, and we’re feeling very accomplished. We have developed new partnerships; we have met and formed lasting relationships with artists and supporters; we have pushed parameters that we didn’t know could be pushed as far; and we have proven RAIR is an exciting and challenging residency program that results in quality work and impactful experiences for artists. While looking over all of the work we’ve done, we’ve found so much value in this reflection. It inspires us to dream bigger, to blur the lines between art and industry, and to continue shifting the perception of materials from waste to resource. By publishing this first “Annual Report”, we are equally pausing to reflect on RAIR’s growth over the past year and setting the stage for the next one. This Annual Report documents the incredible partnerships we’ve been fortunate to make and the remarkable opportunities we’ve been able to offer artists. In the following pages you will see how extraordinary RAIR is. And, we hope it inspires you to join us in making 2015 even more ambitious, more impactful, and more far-reaching. With gratitude, Billy Blaise Dufala + Fern Gookin
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table of contents
..................5 about RAIR ICA@50 ......................11 residency....................19 special projects ..........41 what’s next?...............57
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the studio
photo credit: Billy Dufala
the yard
photo credit: Ashley DiCaro
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about
RAIR
RAIR (Recycled Artists In Residency) is a non-profit with a mission to create awareness about sustainability issues through art and design. Situated inside a construction waste recycling facility in Northeast Philadelphia, RAIR offers artists studio space and access to over 350 tons of materials per day. Since forming in 2010, RAIR has provided unique opportunities for artists to work at the intersection of art, industry and sustainability. It is the only residency program on the east coast (and only one of two in the country) that situates artists directly in the waste stream. The materials in RAIR’s waste stream come from the construction, demolition, industrial and manufacturing industries and includes wood, plastic, metal, rubble, cardboard, and a variety of other debris.
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our “first” year
RAIR has had an exciting several years, and 2014 has been especially monumental. It had its first full programmed year of artist residencies, partnered with the Penn’s Institute of Contemporary Art’s ICA@50 show for 3 exhibitions, and worked with over 14 organizations on various special projects. RAIR also brought on its first part-time staff person in 2014, and grew the team to include 2 interns and 4 additional steady volunteers. Another milestone reached in 2014 was the receipt of 501c3 tax-exempt status, which will make it possible to grow RAIR even more in 2015 through individual donations, corporate sponsorships, and grant funding.
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december 2013 holiday card funeral for a home
ica @ 50 simon kim + billy dufala
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jan 2014
feb
ica @ 50 bryan zanisnik
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apr
may
ica @ 50 mary ellen carroll + billy dufala subTraction
mary ebeling / mira olson
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carrie mae smith
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matt neff
kaitlin pomerantz + john heron
mary mattingly
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francesca pfister
horse tuning expo
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polakvanbekkum
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dumpster painting
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ICA @ 50
The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania, particularly curator Kate Kraczon, has had a strong relationship with RAIR since its inception. As part of ICA’s 50th anniversary exhibition, ICA@50, Kraczon and Dufala developed three short-term residencies during the spring of 2014 - including Dufala’s own collaborations with architect Simon Kim and artist Mary Ellen Carroll. Every project in ICA@50 was linked directly to a previous ICA exhibition, and in the spirit of ICA’s 1973-1987 Made in Philadelphia exhibition series all three RAIR resident artists - Mary Ellen Carroll, Simon Kim, and Bryan Zanisnikhad strong ties to ICA and to the Philadelphia community.
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Simon Kim + Billy Dufala
Made in Philadelphia [1973] Residency: February - March 2014 ICA@50: March 12- March 30th, 2014 Architect Simon Kim and artist Billy Dufala produced the first of three projects through RAIR. Kim and Dufala have collaborated in the past and continued their conversation for this first residency by asking the question: “What are discerning elements of citizenship, governance, and identification in a city made of pieces of past colonial powers?” They constructed a house for the Minister of Foreign Affairs of SURA – an imagined amalgamation of Paris, London, and Tokyo neighborhoods. The building, fabricated and demolished within thirty-six hours on site at RAIR, existed within the ICA gallery via documentation. Being the first architect to participate in RAIR’s residency program, Kim brought a new perspective on materials into his project: “As a recycler of materials from construction sites, I find it an ironic pleasure to engage with the material that is scrapped from the building industry, and elevate it to artistic expression.”
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photo credit: Kordae Henry
photo credit: Lucia ThomĂŠ
photo credit: Kordae Henry
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Mary Ellen Carroll + Billy Dufala
Made in Philadelphia [1980] Residency: March - April 2014 ICA@50: April 16- April 27, 2014 Carroll and Dufala planned to collaborate on a project at RAIR since meeting in 2007 during the Arts/ Industry residency program at the Kohler Company in Wisconsin. For ICA@50, they chose to work with the most valuable material available at Revolution Recovery: 1,400-pound bales of compressed metal. Sculpted in an amphibious theater on the recycling center’s campus, the bales provided a musical stage for the musicians Carroll and Dufala invited to create a new genre of music – Waste Music – and perform during an audience-less Festival of Metal. The two bales that were on view in the ICA’s gallery were similarly used as performance platform for the band METAL EYES (Van Tingley and Jackson Durham) during the exhibition opening April 16th. For inspiration, Carroll and Dufala looked at the recycling facility’s business model: “…the conceptualization began with their process as potential. It was not to create a work that would go back into Revolution Recovery’s waste stream as requested, but to make something that would conceptually expand their processes and the materiality of waste, both as a commodity and as a genre.” The result was the development of the first waste music festival.
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Bryan Zanisnik Made in Philadelphia [1987] Residency: May 2014 ICA@50: May 14- June 1st, 2014
Bryan Zanisnik translated his densely layered installations – which also functioned as sets for the artist and his parents to perform within – to the everchanging landscape of Revolution Recovery. Like the previous two RAIR projects, Zanisnik’s video plays with architecture as performance, as a fantastical space that is inhabited and destroyed within a twenty-four hour period. Using discarded cubicles from a local hospital that appeared during his RAIR residency, Zanisnik built a labyrinth of domestic, institutional, and public spaces and populated this maze with thematic materials from the dump: think office, bedroom, department store, mini-bar, living room, and bathroom. The artist’s father, the suit-clad Bob Zanisnik, led a tour of the temporary structure with random cameos by the artist. In the distance, Dufala performed a choreographed “dance” using the center’s massive “heavy equipment.” Unfamiliar with RAIR before his residency, Zanisnik, now has a full appreciation of the organization’s mission. He described the environment he experienced at RAIR “as a place of transitions, where materials come in and go out, and in between these material cycles there is a platform for rigorous and eco-conscious art work.”
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photo credit: Lucia Thomé
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Residencies
2014 marked the first full year of programmed residencies at RAIR. After piloting the residency program for 3+ years, RAIR made its first open call for artists in the fall of 2013 and selected five to participate: Carrie Mae Smith, Kaitlin Pomerantz + John Broderick Heron, Francesca Pfister, Matt Neff, and Abigail DeVille.
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Carrie Mae Smith Residency: May 2014
The waste stream at RAIR inspired Carrie Mae Smith to think about the experience of being stranded on an island, dependent on one’s ingenuity and resourcefulness for survival. During her residency , she created a body of work titled Robinsonaden, which included the construction of a 17’ flat bottom boat that she rowed down the Delaware River. Except for some adhesive, the aptly titled “Want Knot” was built entirely from material recovered through RAIR. In addition to the boat, complete with two sets of oars, Smith created a set of wooden nautical flags spelling “SURVIVAL”, a “Life Ring”, and a celestial nautical map made from scavenged MRI film. Immediately following her residency at RAIR, Smith exhibited Robinsonaden at the Philadelphia Sculpture Gym in June 2014. “The construction of the vessel was refined, and it was not completely obvious that it was made from recycled/reclaimed materials,” Smith noted regarding the “Want Knot.” When launched on the Delaware River, Smith discussed the boat’s construction with some young boys on the public dock. After close inspection of her craft, they exclaimed they wanted to make a boat out of trash too, which was exactly the kind of resourcefulness Smith hoped to inspire.
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photo credits clockwise from the top: Billy Dufala, Carrie Mae Smith, Raul Romero
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Carrie Mae Smith Residency: May 2014
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photo credits: left - Billy Dufala, right top - Carrie Mae Smith, right bottom - Billy Dufala
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Kaitlin Pomerantz & John Broderick Heron Residency: June 2014
With a history of highlighting environmental issues in their work – both individually and collaboratively – Kaitlin and John started their residency with a clear vision of what they hoped to accomplish. They focused on industrial paper scraps from RAIR’s waste stream and a nearby paper recycling company to create a series of paper-based works. In addition to the largescale handmade paper, paper sculptures and 2D pieces they made during their stay, Kaitlin and John made specialized papermaking tools from materials recovered from the waste stream. After creating the handmade paper, they took their work to a nearby estuary of the Delaware River to take pollution prints from the surface scum. These prints will be shown in the C.R. Ettinger Studio in November 2014. Though Kaitlin and John came into their residency with developed views on sustainability issues, they were still struck by the scale of the waste stream: “Seeing the quantity of stuff that passes through Revolution Recovery awakened me to the enormity of the waste problem and process that exists in urban spaces.” They hope their exhibition will call further attention to waste and pollution issues that are integral to the body of work they created.
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Kaitlin Pomerantz & John Broderick Heron Residency: June 2014
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Francesca Pfister Residency: July 2014
Considering her work as a form of “visual archaeology”, Pfister used her time at RAIR to experiment with scale and materials. Pfister salvaged large fabrics and a collection of individual objects from the waste stream to produce a series of cyanotypes She was interested in testing how variations in materiality – types of substrates, kinds of objects, mixtures of emulsions – created different results in her prints . RAIR offered Pfister a unique opportunity to experiment with a variety of techniques in large formats. During Pfister’s immersion in the waste stream, she was able to explore her interest in urban artifacts and places in flux: “It provided an ideal environment for me both to work on a new project in which I actively used the objects I found for printing and to continue my work on documenting a fascinating transitional space with my camera.” She hopes to eventually exhibit her work at RAIR to highlight her multidisciplinary approach to urban renewal, archaeology, and sustainability.
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Francesca Pfister Residency: July 2014
photo credits: left - Lucia Thomé, right clockwise from the top Lucia Thomé, Francesca Pfister, Francesca Pfister 30
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Matt Neff
Residency: August – October 2014 Matt Neff’s work focused on curating groupings of objects and materials, photographs, prints, drawings, and found/recycled materials. Neff staged compositions that established relationships between materials he pulled from the waste stream. During his time at RAIR, Neff developed a series of assemblages that created texture from light and translucency. Materials scavenged from the waste stream included shattered glass, plexi, and discarded medical equipment. The work Matt has made at RAIR will be shown at the Drawing Center in November and December 2014. Matt intends on staying involved with RAIR postresidency, and is encouraging other artists and his design students to apply to the program. “I feel like my work is changing even just being there,” he says of his experience. “Anytime you can go as an artist to a space and have that change your work, it’s pretty amazing.”
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photo credit: Lucia Thomé
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Matt Neff
Residency: August – October 2014
photo credits: Matt Neff
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Abigail Deville
Residency: November 2014 Abigail DeVille’s sculptural installations are steeped in destruction and decay, acting as reflections on social and cultural oppression, racial identity, and discrimination in American history. This 2014 residency has been Brooklyn-based DeVille’s 3rd trip to Philadelphia to work with RAIR. She welcomed “the opportunity to return to Philly for another chance to make something ambitious with the engineering, material, and creative support RAIR gives generously.” DeVille created an interactive installation for her show at Marginal Utility, which will be open from November 7th - 30th, 2014. Visitors of the exhibit will be invited onto a platform where they can peer into the remnants of a Philadelphia rowhome. As they look in, mirrors will create a seemingly infinite reflection, giving the impression that the space is receding into a black hole.
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Abigail Deville
Residency: November 2014
photo credit: Lucia ThomĂŠ
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photo credit: Lucia ThomĂŠ
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Special Projects
Outside of the residency program, RAIR provides material sourcing services to dozens of artists each year. For the selection of special projects included here, RAIR team members have acted as consultants or project facilitators to help artists source reclaimed materials for their work. These projects have helped RAIR build key partnerships with local institutions and have expanded the reach of its mission beyond RAIR’s facility.
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photo credit: Billy Dufala
2013 Revolution Recovery Holiday Card Revolution Recovery has been creatively designing and building their annual holiday cards since 2005. In 2009, RAIR was invited to produce the holiday card, which elevated the cards to an entirely new level. For the 2013 card, Santa’s sleigh and his reindeer were constructed entirely of materials sourced from the waste stream - wood frames clad with cardboard, noses made from 5-gallon bucket lids, cardboard tube legs, cans for bells, and a red couch for a sleigh seat. The card is distributed to 2,000 of Revolution Recovery’s customers and vendors in the construction community each year, to rave reviews, and is a direct tie to RAIR’s mission of creating awareness about sustainability issues through art and design.
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photo credit: Lucia Thomé
Jack Theater Set
RAIR was approached by artist Abigail DeVille to source materials and fabricate the structure for her set design for the She Talks to Beethoven production at the Jack Theater in Brooklyn. Modeled after Richard Serra’s “Intersection II,” parts of the modular set have since been reused in some of DeVille’s later sculptures. The underlying structure was built from salvaged wood and hardware in RAIR’s studio then transported to Brooklyn to be clad with an array of detritus also sourced from RAIR.
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photo credit: Kimberly Paynter/WHYY
Horse Tuning Competition
Artist and documentary filmmaker Mohamed Bourouissa invited RAIR to be among a selection of artists asked to design and construct a themed costume for a horse in a “horse tuning expo” in July 2014. The horse tuning expo was a two-part event, in partnership with Philadelphia’s Fletcher Street Urban Stables, that first showcased the skill of the equestrian riders in an obstacle course and then the artistic style of the horse/rider pair. RAIR sourced materials for the obstacle course and was paired with owner-rider PeeWee and horse Rosie for the style part of the competition. PeeWee and Rosie’s costumes were made from discarded rolls of metallic red and silver film plastics, which were made into streamers for the horse, rider and their accompanying drum line. The partnership resulted in the team winning first prize in the competition. 44
photo credit: Jeffrey Stockbridge
Funeral For A Home
The “Funeral for a Home” project through Temple Contemporary commemorated the decline and rebirth of Philadelphia’s housing stock and culminated in the celebratory funeral for a home at 3711 Mellon St. To honor its historical significance, the home was ceremoniously demolished and its remnants, carried in a dumpster, led a funeral procession. RAIR connected the project with the demolition contractor, the dumpster (which Steven Dufala custom painted for the occasion), and salvaged fake flowers for the floral crown that the Dufalas created for the roof of the home. At the end of the project, the demolition materials from 3711 Mellon St came back to RAIR’s partner Revolution Recovery for recycling. This project was made possible by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
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photo credit: JJ Tiziou
Fringe Arts / Mary Mattingly
Artist Mary Mattingly participated in the 2014 Fringe Arts Festival with her installation “WetLand,� a mobile, sculptural live/work habitat that floated on the Delaware River. A combination of art, architecture and ecology, Mattingly incorporated rainwater harvesting, gardening, performance space, and living areas into the project. RAIR sourced materials for the project, including irrigation for the floating planters, window frames for exterior of structure, tires for the dock bumpers, and miscellaneous components such as netting and tubing.
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photo courtesy of the artist
Easternsports
Longtime friends and first-time collaborators Alex Da Corte and Jayson Musson created a major new commission for ICA. Featuring lesser-known strengths in their practices—video for Da Corte and language for Musson—Easternsports is a four-channel, loosely episodic narrative with discreet cameos by the artists, both of whom have deep Philadelphia roots. For the final scene of the video installation, RAIR donated the horse armature built for Mohamed Bourouissa’s “Horse Tuning Expo” project and introduced Da Corte to Philadelphia resident Pee Wee and Rosie the horse.
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Social Practice Lab / Asian Arts Initiative “Grow Food Where You Live” is the name of the yearlong project that Social Practice Lab artist Meei Ling Ng created to inspire residents and stakeholders of Chinatown North / Callowhill to establish small garden plots and, eventually, a central community garden. RAIR worked with Meei Ling to source materials for this project including a large metal hoop and connected her with resident Carrie Mae Smith’s “Want Knot” boat, which was repurposed as a planter for this exhibition.
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photo credits: left-Billy Dufala, right- PolakVanBekkum
Science Center / Esther + Ivar
PolakVanBekkum, an artist duo from the Netherlands, worked in Philadelphia from May to November 2014 on the Science Center’s campus as part of the unique place-making and community engagement program “Art Along the Avenue of Technology.” Esther Polak and Ivar van Bekkum explored the intersection of art and technology along Market Street as they built an online GPS-based navigation documentary, which followed the movements of both objects and people as they moved throughout Philadelphia. The duo then created a visualization of the routes using Google Earth. RAIR was selected as one of the sites in PolakVanBekkum’s compilation. They fixed high-end recording equipment on a front-end loader to document sound and environment around the machinery. A GPStracking unit was also attached to the heavy machinery, recording the activity of the operator’s movement through the recycling yard over the course of 2 hours and approximately 4 miles.
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photo credit: Lucia Thomé
Lucia Thomé / Ongoing Work
Lucia Thomé’s artwork explores the relationships between the natural and built environments. The work she has developed and exhibited this year include her site specific “Universe Builders” installation, which dealt with space, adventure and scale for a Public Art Initiative Exhibition at the University of the Arts, and her “First Island” show at the LMNL Gallery, which explores answers to the questions: “What if nothing is what it seems, and each thing is made of what it’s not?” Materials used to develop the sculptures in both shows came almost exclusively from RAIR. In addition to her practice, she is currently a part-time project manager at RAIR where her enthusiasm and dedication to RAIR’s mission have been instrumental to the organization’s growth in 2014.
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photo credit: Jauhien Sasnou
Object Lesson / Geoff Sobelle
Geoff Sobelle’s “Object Lesson” is a theater production that examines the relationships people build with the objects that accumulate around them. The show has won numerous awards including the 2014 Carol Tambor Best in Edinburgh award. The 4th staging of the production (and the 2nd of which RAIR has sourced materials) will premier at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in November 2014. The bulk of the “objects” in this show were sourced from RAIR and include dollhouse furniture, domestic kitchen wares, stuffed animals, armor, pottery, player piano scrolls, a chandelier, and an assortment of other ephemera.
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photo credit: Billy Dufala
Dumpster Painting
Revolution Recovery commissioned RAIR to design and paint 10 construction dumpsters as part of the #DumpsterDoubleTake campaign. The goal of the campaign was to get people to think twice when they see a dumpster and to spur conversations about waste instead of perpetuating the status quo, “out of sight, out of mind.” RAIR’s team solicited designs and selected local artists Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Steven Dufala, Leks Kamihira, Lucia Thomé and Billy Dufala to paint one or more of the dumpsters. The painted dumpsters have been positively received by both the construction and art communities.
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photo credits: Jessie Friedman
Traction Company / Subtraction subTRACTION was Traction Company’s first collaborative sculptural project, a one-sixth scale model of the collective’s gargantuan sculpture shop. Conceived of and constructed by Traction Company’s 14 members, subTRACTION invites viewers to encounter the facility’s shared studios, tools, and detritus on an intimate, personal level. It was exhibited during the Citywide exhibition where more than twenty artistbased collectives exchanged space for a multi-gallery, month long exhibit. All materials were salvaged, most of which were sourced from RAIR.
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photo credit: Billy Dufala
Drexel University / Social Scientists During the spring and summer, Drexel University’s Mary Ebeling (sociology), Mira Olson (civil, architectural and environmental engineering), and Danie Greenwell (PhD candidate, culture & communication), made several visits to RAIR as part of their research on waste and recycling streams in Philadelphia. The research team was interested in learning more about how artists and workers at Revolution Recovery divert and repurpose refuse, how they collectively assess and define value to materials coming into the facility, and through this meaning-making, how they work together collaboratively to give new life and meaning to the tons of debris moving through the waste stream. The group’s findings and observations will inform their project Refuse, Reuse, Revalue: Waste and Redefining Value in Postindustrial Cities. 54
photo credit: Steven Dufala
PAFA / Found Materials Course This class is about exploring alternative methods to traditional art making practice. Venturing outside of the studio, using the city’s inexhaustible abandoned materials as a basis for new work, students work in groups to establish an awareness of an artist’s place in their community. They also work individually to learn how to utilize their resources. All of this is discussed in both practical and conceptual contexts addressing the green movement, sustainability and the state of our material culture. The studio class travels to RAIR once a semester to work on a site-specific project and to source found materials.
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Coming Up in 2015 With all the successes we’ve had in 2014, we know there are so many more opportunities RAIR has yet to realize. The experiences we’ve had to date have given us a strong understanding of how to plan and execute projects in the recycling center. In the next year we want to invite more artists into the residency program to have new experiences in ways they may have never fathomed. We want to develop programming for schools that gets materials in the hands of students to teach them to think creatively about waste. We want to have build-it-yourself workshops in our studio to bring people to our location to see the waste stream. We want to branch out to include other artistic and academic disciplines like music, performance and research to tap into the potential RAIR can have beyond what we’ve already seen. Along with the new types of programming we expect to deliver in 2015, we will be implementing a development strategy to continue RAIR’s growth. This will include formalizing the relationships we’ve built with local institutions by seeking joint funding opportunities. We are also excited about expanding the relationships we’ve developed with businesses and individuals who are committed to our mission. With these steps, we are looking forward to moving RAIR to a more sustainable platform where we will create new ways of putting ideas of waste back into the public eye.
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Thank Yous Revolution Recovery’s entire team from the office to operations - Avi Golen- Jon Wybar - Institute for Contemporary Art’s staff, especially Kate Kraczon Simon Kim - Mary Ellen Carroll - Bryan Zanisnik Carrie Mae Smith - Kaitlin Pomerantz - John Heron Francesca Pfister - Matt Neff - Abigail DeVille - Leks Kamihira - Andrew Jeffrey Wright - Steven Dufala Raul Romero - Kordae Henry - Giorgio Angelini David Fishkin - Matt Gibson - Alexei Korolev - Ray Leone - Julius Masri - Alec Ounsworth - Rosemary Ounsworth - Thomas Pontone - Jay Purdy - Jamey Robinson - John Shapiro - Joy Mariama Smith Koof Umoren - Jackson Durham - Van Tingley John Dufala - Michael Graves - Joe Amsel - Patrick McGuire - Bob Zanisnik - Sculpture Gym - Steven Earl Weber - Astrid Bowlby - Greg Watson - Samantha Mitchell - John D’Orazio and Sons - Raff Pfister David Dempewolf - Yuka Yokoyama - Marginal Utility JACK Theater - Charlotte Brathwaite - Mohamed Bourouissa - Jesse Engard - Temple Contemporary Mary Mattingly - Fringe Arts - Alex DeCorte - Larkin Dugan - PeeWee - Rosie the horse - Meei Ling Ng Asian Arts Initiative - Nancy Chen - University City Science Center - David Clayton - Esther Polak - Ivar van Bekkum - Drexel University - Mary Ebeling - Mira Olson - Danie Greenwell - LMNL gallery - Bluecadet Geoff Sobelle - Traction Company - Mackenzie McAlpin - Greg Biche - Adam Doyle - CultureWorks Alex Baker - Dan Schimmel - Lee Stoetzel - Frannie Reilly Pennsylvania Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts Christopher Plant - Interface Studio - Desiree Bender Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts - Melissa Kaiser Matthew Callinan - Philadelphia Cultural Fund Pennsylvania Council for the Arts City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy With a special thanks to Ashley DiCaro and Darcy Van Buskirk for giving their time and expertise to complete this 2014 Year in Review. 60
Our Team Billy Blaise Dufala, Co-founder
Billy is a Philadelphia-based artist who works in collaboration with his brother Steven as the Dufala Brothers. He is a founding member of the studio cooperative Traction Company and co-teaches a course on Found Materials at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
Fern Gookin, Co-founder
Fern is the Director of Sustainability for Revolution Recovery and serves on the Board of Directors for the Delaware Valley Green Building Council. She is an adjunct faculty member at Philadelphia University in the Masters of Science in Sustainable Design program.
Lucia ThomĂŠ, staff
Lucia ThomĂŠ is a Philadelphia-based artist who is a recent alum of the University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She is a member of the studio cooperative Traction Company.
Max Lussenhop, intern
Max is Philadelphia native currently enrolled in the Fine Arts Departments at Parsons, The New School of Design. He interned with RAIR and artist Mary Mattingly in the summer of 2014.
Sarah Thompson, intern
Sarah is a sculpture student at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She began interning at RAIR in the summer of 2014 and will continue working on special assignments throughout her fall and spring semesters.
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