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Our Mission

The WasteShed seeks to provide Chicago with an organized, affordable, and reliable resource for repurposed art, craft, and school materials, and with a dynamic center for activities pertaining to sustainability, art, craft, education, and material culture. We connect Chicagoans who are interested in:

• living more sustainably
• seeking inspiration in unconventional materials
• getting the most out of the resources they have to hand
• or just making projects at a low cost.

While sustainability is the ultimate goal, creative reuse foregrounds practical, economical, and fun hands-on activities as points of entry into larger discussions about the things we own, and the way we live.

If this sounds like something you’d like to get mixed up in, please get in touch!

Our People

Eleanor Ray is the Director of The WasteShed. She discovered creative reuse as an installation and costume artist, and developed her ideas in the nurturing environment of SCRAP PDX. She was also General Manager of the Creative Reuse Warehouse, and spearheaded their collaboration with the ReBuilding Exchange before plunging headfirst into the brackish waters of The WasteShed.

Anna Jo Beck is a an illustrator, designer and educator who applies her skills in visual arts, technology , and general enthusiasm to spread the word of The WasteShed. See more of her work at her portfolio website.