Past Events
2008
Earth Day Giveaway
City Repair Project’s Earth Day celebration was held in Overlook Park on April 19. It rained, it blew, it hailed like crazy, but did that stop Portlanders from prancing around on stilts and in dinosaur costumes? Heck no.
To coincide with the festivities, Cracked Pots organized a curbside giveaway project in the Overlook neighborhood. Fifty or so households participated by putting their usable unwanted items at the curb. Neighbors talked to neighbors and met nice folks from across town who stopped by to celebrate the Earth and found some cool free stuff too.
2005
Corporate Garbage Art!
In November 2005, Cracked Pots collaborated with Northwest Business and Culture for the Arts to match artists with local companies and their waste. Six artists were commissioned and allowed access to the dumpsters of Rejuvenation, Comcast, Portland General Electric, Hampton Affiliates, Oregon Ballet Theater, and Jordan Schrader Attorneys. The resulting artworks were displayed at the NWBCA annual Breakfast of Champions, which honors outstanding companies who support the arts.
This project is a great example of how business can support the environment AND the arts at the same time.
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RePot – a plastic pot recycling project
Between April and July 2005, our RePot project saved 50 tons of plastic from the landfill. Of course, this was back before you could recycle many garden pots right at your own curb, in Portland. Now that’s progress!
2004
Tossed, Then Found
Portland Tribune covers Cracked Pots at the local dump
"…the stench is overwhelming. Piles upon piles of discarded materials bake inside a metal building scorched by the sun…"
Cracked Pots has been priveleged to glean items with another life or two left
in them from the Metro transfer station and offer them at the Garden
Art Show to be taken and reused, for free. The “dump pile” is a
popular feature at the show, and each year visitors are astonished
to see what wonderful, useful things get thrown away. We’re always encouraging
people to look creatively at garbage!
Read
the full Tribune article…
2003
Atkinson School Courtyard
Cracked Pots purchased a sculpture by artists Mark and Tamara Fountain and donated it to Atkinson Elementary School in Southeast Portland. Atkinson is one of the most ethnically diverse schools in the Portland metropolitan area, representing cultures from around the world. The sculpture, titled “One Big Family,” sits in a central courtyard where all the students can see.