Announcing.....Our Holiday Digs!

Collective Upcycle Holiday Boutique will open again this holiday season!  We chose to announce our holiday location today, in honor of ReUse Day....drum roll..... 

We will be in historic Shaker Square! 

The great people at Coral Company "got it", like what we do and have been super nice.  We're excited about this partnership.   Our shop will take over the empty shelves of the former beverage and spirits store beside Fire Restaurant.  Tucked into an inviting walkway with lots of empty windows, wall to wall shelving, and a quirky layout we can't wait to take over, it feels like a great fit. 

The boutique will be full of the goods of 30+ local & regional reuse artists & upcyclists.    It will be the plastic bag, cast away glass, reclaimed sweater, salvaged bicycle part, scrap wire, expired flooring sample, scrap paper, sailcloth, and all around recycled/reusey/upcycling space that we dream of....And what a great place for holiday shopping!

Save the date to join us for an opening celebration the evening of Thursday, November 17th.  Following that, we'll be open Thursdays-Sundays until Christmas eve. Prepare yourselves.   This is going to be great!

We'll pop up again

It's true, we're not in Gordon Square Arts District anymore and the fabulously large and window-rrific space we filled for the month of June is now empty.  
But the good news is that the space at 6710 Detroit Avenue may have a new tenant (of the permanent type!) by the end of the year.   And we, in our pop-up style, will be re-opening a Collective Upcycle holiday shop.  At a location that we'll announce in October and open in November.  Stay tuned, check back, follow us on facebook, and know that we love our customers, friends, and supporters as much as you love us back :)

Hot off the Press

Follow this link for A great article in the Plain Dealer on Pop-Up retail and below, a favorite Collective Upcycle photo taken by Laura Watilo Blake

Come on in!

Our hours:
Tuesday-Friday
10am -8pm
Saturday-Sunday:
12pm-6pm


Its fun here. 
Come on in!

We're Open!

Today, we stop politely telling friendly wanderers-in that we're not actually open.  
We open at 12 noon. Today is Party in Gordon Square Day, and we expect lots of visitors.  We hope you're one of them.  Or the next day.  Or Tuesday.  Or Wednesday.   But with live music, lots of other art happening, performances, food trucks, beer gardens....we think you should just make it today.  We're open until 7pm (and lots of other activities continue until much later after that.)   Happy Saturday!


We're at 6710 Detroit Avenue, beside Sweet Moses, in the 44102 of Cleveland.  

It's getting better and better in here.

We believe in the magic that happens when you pick up something leftover, give it a little love and add some creativity.   Collective Upcycle is full of the goods that are born from this process of upcycling -- taking an existing or leftover material and altering it in a way that adds value to it.  
We also believe in the process that happens when you walk into an empty retail space and vision what could happen in the space for a short amount of time.  Could we fill it with the work of 30 local reuse/upcycle artists?  Could we host some workshops and build community in this space?  Could we watch Detroit Avenue buzz by through these enormous front windows while eating ice cream from next door?     It started as an empty space but with help  from Habitat for Humanity ReStore and the collective efforts of our artists, we've created the empty space into a shop that looks pretty inviting if we say so ourselves.  

This is a friendly street

Each time we're here new people stop by.  They ask if we need help, when we'll open, what we'll have in this space.  Usually in that order.  It's a great street, it's great to be next to Sweet Moses, and it's even greater to be filling our temporary home with great artwork. 

When people ask, we explain ourselves a little something like this: 

Collective Upcycle is a pop-up boutique of reused art & handmade goods by Cleveland artists. We're taking over the big & beautiful storefront in the NearWest Loftworks building at 6710 Detroit Avenue this summer from Saturday June 11-Sunday, July 3rd.  We're bringing together 30 Cleveland-area artists & innovators who repurpose existing resources & leftover materials and transform them into something new, functional, beautiful, or whimsical. In an enthusiastic demonstration of Cleveland's bustling creative reuse economy, you'll find repurposed jewelry, tote bags, flowers, furniture, candles, decorations, photo frames, stationary, wind chimes, magnets, accessories, art and more in Collective Upcycle. Stay tuned for workshops and activities being planned in the space.
Come back! We open June 11th!