Who We Are
The Gleaning Project is a non-profit environmental art initiative that connects artists and underresourced individuals through collaborative artmaking, bringing healing to people and the Earth.
What We Do
Gather
We gather discarded materials and connect artists with individuals navigating hardship in collaborative artmaking.
Transform
As the discarded materials are cleaned, cut, crocheted, sewn, tied together, and transformed into art pieces, our neighbors find community, purpose, and healing.
Renew
All finished pieces are exhibited in a year-end art show. The cycle continues with a new cohort.
Latest Exhibition
Why “Gleaning”?
Gleaning means gathering leftover crops after the hired harvesters have passed through the fields. It is a slow process in which people on the margins collect and take home whatever they can find.
The word encompasses a denial of extractive systems that leave the Earth bare in their wake, a desire to help the marginalized, and the thrifty mindset at play when utilizing and making the most of every last bit of a precious resource—all concepts at the heart of what we do.
Used tea bags transformed into collages
‘Collage #1’ 2019 discarded milk carton, tissue paper, tea bags, neutral ph adhesive 9 × 12 in
‘Collage #3’ 2019 discarded milk carton, tissue paper, tea bags, neutral ph adhesive 15 × 30 in
Used plastic bag as raw material
‘Rabiscos’, 2017; discarded plastic bags, 20×25 in
STAY CONNECTED
How You Can Help:
Make a donation to help fund our next cycle.
Serve as a volunteer and support various areas of execution of this project.
Bring our art into your home by purchasing our pieces.
Help promote the Gleaning Project via your networks and social media.
Our supporters:
With thanks to
Bestudio Design The Gleaning Project logo was designed by Beatriz Salvatierra
Carmita Sanchez-Fong Professor and Chairperson, Interior Design Department, Fashion Institute of Technology
Ian Torres Photographer