Did you notice the top line on the poster and postcard above - Fourth Annual? Really?
Yup! This is FabMo’s signature event every year. We DO hope you attended! It is a wonderful place for inspiration, excitement, fun, camaraderie, and a great start to holiday shopping!
Beyond that, however, it is of great significance to FabMo. Can you guess why?
Many years ago people started proudly showing their finished projects when they came to a selection event at the house. It was fun to see what they had made, but only years later did I realize that our rescue effort was totally pointless without these finished projects, which turn rescuing materials into repurposing materials.
Think about it: Storing materials keeps them out of the landfill - until you run out of storage. In 2012 we diverted well over 50 tons of gorgeous stuff - enough to tightly pack a column twelve feet by twelve feet that towers nine stories tall. Can you believe it! That's huge! How could we possibly store that much in such a small warehouse? The solution is YOU. While collecting beautiful stuff is interesting, sustainability of our effort depends on surplus materials coming in one door and going out another, with your intention to create from it something new, beautiful and useful. Without our wonderful creative community we would crash and burn, buried under our own seeming success.
Several years ago, vision, enthusiasm, organization and follow-through came together and the First Annual FabMo Textile Art Expo became a reality. Variety, quality, participation and success have all risen year after year, as we plan for the FIFTH annual FabMo Textile Art Boutique on October 27, 2013! More than 50 artist/exhibitors, offering things made from FabMo materials - textiles, wallpapers, ceramic & glass tiles, etc. had displays in 2012, with a waiting list. Beautiful, hand-crafted, repurposed, one-of-a-kind stuff.
Visitors to the Boutique generally are unaware that such a resource as FabMo's designer materials even exists, much less the beautiful creations that emerge from them.
Come! Celebrate! And bring your friends! Support the artists that support FabMo!
Here are time and place details as they currently shape up:
Sunday, October 27th, 2013
10am-4pm
Free admission & parking
Quadrus Conference Center,
2400 Sand Hill Road,
Menlo Park, 94025