Presented in partnership with the Petaluma Arts Center and Recology San Francisco and Santa Rosa, It’s Not Trash: Reclaiming and Transforming honors artists who repurpose discarded materials to create work centered on sustainability, storytelling, and community restoration.
Reuse Alliance, in collaboration with our community participants, will be creating and exhibiting a textile-based art installation at the upcoming exhibition, opening this fall at the Petaluma Arts Center. This summer, we are hosting a series of skill-based workshops centered around transforming and repurposing textile waste collected from clothing swaps and our new creative reuse store at the Reuse Hub.
The installation we create, texTILES, will be featured alongside many other artworks celebrating reuse and sustainability. Participation in any of our textile workshops or volunteering with our organization will grant access for participation in the community art installation. The completed artwork will be auctioned at a later date to support fundraising efforts for the organization.
Exhibition Dates:
September 17 - October 24, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 17, 5:30-7:30pm
Upcoming Textile Workshops:
June 20th, 1-3pm: Fabric Scrap Art with Jerrie Patterson
June 27th, 1-3pm: Crochet Fabric Scrap Rugs with Joanne Wang
July 11th, 1-3pm: Trash Printmaking with Joanne Wang
July 12th, 1:30-3:30pm: Upcycled Fabric Beadmaking with Rhonda Goodman
July 18th, 1-3pm: Intro to English Paper Piecing with Scrap Fabric with Soren Dawson
July 18th, 4-6pm: Basics of Mending and Patching by Hand with Laina Torres
July 25th, 1-3pm: Weaving with Fabric Scraps with Emily Robinson
August 1st, 1-4pm: Reverse Applique with T-Shirts with Emily Robinson
August 9th - Basics of Mending and Patching by Hand with Laina Torres
Requirements for Artwork and for Participation:
All submissions must be created using reused textiles
Size limitations: must be 12”x12” square
Artwork does NOT need to be 2D; artwork can be dimensional as long as LxW of tile is 12”x12” and all components are safely secured
Participating artists must attend a workshop or volunteer with the organization
Participating artists are welcome to submit as many pieces as they would like
Participating artists must sign artist release form
All submissions are due at the Reuse Hub by 6pm on August 28th, 2026
For any questions about this program, please email reusehub@reusealliance.org
*Reuse Alliance reserves the right to decline any artwork submissions for any reasons including but not limited to: containing graphic or offensive content, demonstrating poor craftsmanship, or conflicting with our organization’s values
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