ART+INDUSTRY
ABOUT US
RAIR (Recycled Artist In Residency) is a non-profit arts organization uniquely situated within a construction and demolition recycling center in Northeast Philadelphia.
“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.”
Open Call Residency
RAIR’s residency program provides artists on-site access to recovered materials and a studio space to produce work. The RAIR workspace includes a large project space, wood shop equipment, metal working facilities, access to the waste stream for materials, and a material storage area. Each artist has attentive support from RAIR’s staff, who act as liaisons between the artist and the recycling facility.
“Though we set out to explore paper making and printmaking using found materials, we did not anticipate the way in which the FLOW of objects at RAIR would insinuate itself into our work, visually. Much of what we created reflects the moving, dispersive, overflowing, frenetic nature of RAIR, and the waste stream, itself.”
SUPPORT
As a non-profit arts organization, RAIR relies on the support of it’s community. You can help us continue to grow and spread our mission!
“I feel like my work is changing even just being there. Anytime you
can go as an artist to a space and have that change your work,
it’s pretty amazing.”