Recordings of the GCC LA's bi-monthly community meetings, which aim to share resources with the larger Los Angeles arts community.

  • Community Meeting | July 27, 2022

    Simone Paz, Associate Director of Sustainability at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, leads a discussion on minimizing the environmental impacts of exhibitions by applying sustainable and circular strategies through the exhibition design, production, and deinstallation process.

  • See Ya Later, Landfill!

    Upcycling and Recycling Exhibition Materials The fair was a smashing success, the wall is covered in red dots, and now you're packing up to head home. But what about the crates, plastic sheeting, and drywall left in your wake? With proper planning, art fair materials can have a second life and avoid an eternity in the landfill. Ahead of Frieze LA, join GCC to learn about three organizations working to keep materials out of the landfill through upcycling and recycling: Ridwell, EcoSet, and Barder. 

    Ridwell is a grassroots organization that helps us waste less by picking up reusable and hard to recycle items such as plastic film, batteries, lightbulbs and more, and finding new life for them. Their mission is to save as much from the landfill as possible. In just about 4 years, Ridwell members have saved 10 million pounds from our landfills and counting!

    EcoSet is an environmental production resource for the creative industries. They implement Zero Waste practices on film and television productions and events, recirculating materials back into the community. EcoSet is working toward the transition to a creative circular economy, a new business as usual, and a better behind-the-scenes.

    Barder is a peer-to-peer resource sharing tool for the arts. Post unused items you would like to sell, trade, lend, or give away; source items you need from the pool of posted items. And in doing so, reduce waste, recover valuable space, lower operating costs, foster industry connections, and invest in a circular economy. You can think of Barder as a collective inventory of material shared across all users, or as an industry-specific commons.