Beauty from waste is our passion, Inspiring creativity our goal, stopping plastic waste entering our seas is our mission. Dross Evolution Creative Hub is a not for profit Social Enterprise that is devoted to providing a fully equipped artistic environment, for anyone to utilize in a creative manner. We are small but we have big ideas and we are passionate about bringing recycling awareness to everyone in our community through the medium of art. Any profit we make goes back into providing as many FREE services as we can.
What We Do;
We run Regular Free Art Classes, Subsidized Drop In Art Clubs, Arty Parties, Workshops, Recycling Workshops for Schools/ Colleges/ Clubs, Low Cost Studio Space Hire, Portfolio Mentoring, Private Art Classes, Youth Art Groups, Support and Guidance for Emerging Artists & Craft Makers, Exhibitions, Corporate Art/Design , etc.
-The Eco Design Gallery, We Don't Scrap It... We Evolutionize It...
Every day factories all over Ireland throw away tons of re-usable quality factory floor surplus otherwise known as “Dunnage” This Dunnage consists of off cuts, scraps of fabric left over from cutting out patterns, materials and products that have not passed the quality tests, materials that are surplus to requirement, end of rolls, products that have been cut wrong or have errors, etc. The list is endless and for the most part this dunnage ends up in landfill . We at dross Evolution are passionate about keeping these materials out of landfill by using them to create a huge variety of quality Art and Design products by our group of Nationally and Internationally recognized Irish artists, Emerging Artists, Local Craft Makers.. We also use these materials to teach children through Art the value in recycling. We provide low cost or Free "Wombles" Art Clubs, Arty Parties, Youth Art Clubs and Art Camps where children and young people can explore a huge variety of materials and make lots of Amazing Art.
We are also very concerned about plastic pollution. We hope to encourage industry to have a mission for its usable waste materials and we want to make this waste available to our members free of charge.
We also offer low cost Taste from Waste Recycling workshops to schools and colleges to inform and create awareness to this issue. Adults and Children can come and learn what can be done with factory floor waste and can also create art and design products. We also provide materials and mentoring for students who are involved in the Junk Couture Awards or who are working on their Art Portfolio for College Entrance.