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Join us next Thursday at 623 S. Wabash!

Next week, the Recycling Program will host another screenprinting event to promote reuse within the Columbia community.

Screenprint A Lower Carbon Footprint will be hosted in the Hokin Gallery of 623 S. Wabash on Thursday, Oct. 20^th. Students are invited to bring their own shirt or pick one from a selection provided by the Recycling Program—all of which will be purchased secondhand from local thrift stores or donated from past events such as Manifest, Convocation, etc.

Students who choose to screenprint their shirt can choose from a number of student designs. Including the winning submission of this year’s call for work—which was designed by Jason Curescu. Participants can then hack their shirt to their liking, and use any leftover fabric to make necklaces, scarves, and other crafts.

Event partners will be on hand to help out students who stop by. Anchor Graphics will be leading the screenprinting process. The Columbia College Fashion Association (CCFA) will lead students in demonstrations at an ‘alteration station,’ and students from Michelle Sayset’s Writing & Rhetoric II: Environmental Concerns class will be helping students make patches from leftover shirts.

Arti Sanhu, an associate professor in Columbia’s Fashion Studies department will be talking about her coordination of last year’s Zero Waste exhibit, and to lead a discussion about sustainable practices in fashion and zero-waste design.

 For additional details, visit the event page on Facebook.

Designed by Jason Curescu.

Check out the new design for the Columbia Recycling Program’s screenprinting initiative. Designed by Jason Curescu, a transfer student in the Graphic Design department, the cassette tape was inspired by the event’s theme of reuse.

When he initially started brainstorming ideas for a design, Curescu tried to think of items that can be reused and then ultimately recycled. ”I chose the cassette because it’s something that rarely gets used anymore and…you can always reuse old cassette tapes [by recording] new stuff over the old music,” he explains.

Curescu’s design will be used at next week’s Screenprint a Lower Carbon Footprint event. Hosted by the Recycling Program, the event is free for students and staff and will feature screenprinting, t-shirt hacking, and patch making. More details can be found here.

On Thursday October 20^th, The Columbia College Recycling Program will be hosting “Screen Print a Smaller Carbon Footprint,” an event to show students the importance of reducing waste and reusing materials instead of throwing them away.

By making small changes to old clothing, something completely new and desirable can be created. We will demonstrate this by allowing students to have a secondhand shirt—acquired from past Columbia events or area thrift stores—and have student-created designs screen-printed on them.

Every year, the Recycling Program chooses a student design and adds another screen to this station. We need your help to create a new design that’s inspired by an environmental topic. (Examples of previous designs can be found here.)

The winner will receive an 8GB iPod Nano donated by the campus Apple Store.

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