The arts operation embraces change.
By Shira Laucharoen
Somerville Wire
Marina Seevak’s first job out of college was at the Boston Children’s Museum, where there was a recycle center, and that was how she became hooked on the idea of creative reuse. She eventually got a cubicle at the Artisan’s Asylum maker’s space and she began to email hundreds of companies, asking them to send their scrap materials to her. Handing out colorful foam and sparkly fabric from barrels, she would give bags of materials away for free to local teachers. That was how The Beautiful Stuff Project started.
The operation eventually moved to East Somerville, and teachers would come by to fill a bag with whatever odds and ends they found. Seevak did all of this free of charge, because she is “a teacher, not a businesswoman. This started as a labor of love.” This model became unsustainable, so…
