Author: Deborah Hunt

Good Day Sacramento: Mask Makers Studio

GOOD DAY SACRAMENTO https://youtu.be/qU25WLgpIoc The Atrium, a nonprofit dedicated to creating a kind, creative, and sustainable future has built an online marketplace for local creatives to sell their handmade masks.…
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Visit Sacramento Podcast: Shira Lane on New Mask Marketplace for Local Artists

Visit Sacramento Podcast (May 14, 2020) – With the need to wear masks seemingly here for the foreseeable future, Sacramento artists are stepping up to provide unique examples, giving people…
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PBS KVIE’s Rob Stewart On The Road: Joshua’s House & The Atrium

Rob at Home (April 2020) – PBS KVIE’s Rob Stewart brings you the stories that capture Northern California’s spectacular beauty, rich history, and fascinating people and places. Listen in as Rob…
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City’s Office of Arts & Culture Teams Up with Local Groups to Support Creatives During Covid-19 Outbreak

Sacramento City Express (April 2020) – Partnering with Atrium916 and other local creative groups, the Sacramento Office of Arts & Culture on April 9 co-hosted its second Creative Economy Community meeting,…
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Creative Economy Meeting March 26, 2020

CREATIVE ECONOMY MEETING – March 26TH The most complex creative ideas usually emerge from dark weird periods like these… so what can we do and how can we make the…
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Reuters 2020: Lighting the Way on Waste Issue

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) – Sheilagh McCafferty’s eyes lit up as she pulled apart one of a pile of vape cartridges, a treasure trove of wiring, lithium batteries and light-emitting diode…
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Cannabis Times 2019: Panel Discussion on Cartridge Waste

Up Kindness, Inc – DBA The Atrium 916 is calling attention to the challenges surrounding vape cartridge recycling with an upcycled art exhibit, and brainstorming solutions through panel discussions. Up…
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Leaf Online 2019: Battling Cannabis Waste with UpCycled Art

Disposable vapes and cartridges reach new highs every day and with them an enormous amount of post-consumer waste. According to BDS Analytics, vape cartridges are the fastest-growing sector of California’s…
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Upcycle Pop Eco Holiday Market & Art Exhibit 2019

There’s no shortage of holiday gifts this season, and with them comes the abundance of holiday waste. At least one-holiday market is making it a goal to be zero waste:…
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Info on Creative Economy Meeting and Panel with Mayor, Darrell Steinberg

This quarterly Creative Economy meeting will host a panel discussion on the financial future of the Creative Economy – “Funding Strategies for Arts and the Creative Economy”. The panel – Sacramento Mayor,…
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Good Day Sacramento 2018: UpCycle Pop Valentines Event

Good Day, Sacramento (CBS) came early Sunday morning to cover our set-up of UPcyclePOP Valentines Event – Take time 4 Love. With no reporter, Shira Lane gave a tour of…
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Fresno Bee 2018: UpCyclePop Market & the New Economy

She didn’t want to come to Sacramento. Now she’s helping build its new economy. UPcyclePOP aims to find new uses for the discarded, bringing artists to Folsom Boulevard pop-up market. The…
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Fox40 Live Show 2018: UpCyclePop Market Launch

Upcyclepop was featured on the Fox40 live morning show on the opening day of our first UpcyclePOP on December 14, 2017. Here is what they wrote: From old dishware to…
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