A night celebrating RAIR's 2017 year and fundraising for what's to come in 2018. Enjoy light fare and refreshments, meet RAIR artists, and party with the RAIR family while supporting a great cause. The evening's auction will include artworks as well as packages from local businesses. Proceeds will directly support RAIR's programming in 2017.
RAIR is thrilled to be honoring John Ollman at the 2017 Trash Bash.
For nearly fifty years John has been an advocate for the arts in Philadelphia through his gallery, Fleisher/Ollman. An early proponent of ethnographic, folk, and self-taught artists, John himself seeks to dismantle these artificial terms: "I have spent my career as a dealer trying to break down the walls that exist between 'high' and 'low' art forms." Not only has Fleisher/Ollman been a leading voice in these fields, but has provided an important platform to artists—particularly emerging artists in Philadelphia—who are in dialogue with this legacy.
Join us on November 15th as we celebrate John and his radically inclusive and influential vision.
RAIR’s mission is to create awareness about sustainability issues through art and design. The organization operates on-site at Revolution Recovery, a for-profit recycling company in Northeast Philadelphia. The waste industry is a typically closed-door industry with an over-abundance of materials. As an art organization nestled within 3.5 acres of industrial property, RAIR is uniquely positioned to provide artists studio space and unprecedented access to the 350+ tons of construction, demolition, and manufacturing waste that enter the facility each day. RAIR encourages all artists to use their residencies as an opportunity to stretch themselves by working in new capacities. Many artists use their time to experiment with scale and materials. Projects are often staged, thoroughly documented and broken down to go back into the waste stream for recycling, leaving the materials in the same state as they were before the artist intervened.