{"id":359,"date":"2021-05-14T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T00:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tallman.promo\/2021\/05\/14\/gallery-stratford-selling-tote-bags-made-from-recycled-exhibit-banners\/"},"modified":"2021-11-22T19:54:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T19:54:02","slug":"gallery-stratford-selling-tote-bags-made-from-recycled-exhibit-banners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tallman.promo\/2021\/05\/14\/gallery-stratford-selling-tote-bags-made-from-recycled-exhibit-banners\/","title":{"rendered":"GALLERY STRATFORD SELLING TOTE BAGS MADE FROM RECYCLED EXHIBIT BANNERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gallery Stratford is now selling tote bags made from the recycled banners that once advertised past art exhibitions at the gallery.Galen Simmons, The Stratford Beacon Herald,\u00a0Publishing date:Feb 07, 2021\u00a0Original article\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0Gallery Stratford has partnered with Stratford\u2019s Tall Man Promo to create unique tote bags made from recycled banners from the art gallery\u2019s past exhibitions. Pictured, Gallery Stratford director\/curator Angela Brayham and Tallman owner J. Oosterom show off some of the bags now available for purchase at $25 apiece. Galen Simmons\/The Beacon Herald\/Postmedia Network\u00a0Supporters of Gallery Stratford can now take a piece of its history home in the form of tote bags made from recycled banners once used to advertise past exhibits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bags, being sold for $25 apiece while supplies last in support of future gallery exhibitions and programming, are the result of a partnership between Gallery Stratford and Stratford marketing and design company TallMan.Promo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we decided to reopen in August, I wanted to do banners outside. (Tall Man owner) J. Oosterom and I have partnered on various projects to support the gallery, and I asked him if he can do the banners for me,\u201d Brayham said. \u201cSo when we were hanging them, we started talking (and) the one thing I hate about that kind of product is they just go to landfill. We\u2019ve got this three-month use and then what do you do with this banner?\u201d

Having recently rediscovered a number of these vinyl banners that had been stored instead of thrown away, Brayham and Oosterom came up with the idea of repurposing them into what Brayham called wearable art pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFifteen years ago, we started doing inflatable advertising, so we do fabric and sewing for those. \u2026 This is something that is relatively simpler than doing large inflatables, so we kind of said, \u2018All right, let\u2019s figure this out,’\u201d \u201d Oosterom said. \u201cThe number of bags we get out of a banner depends actually on how well the banner has survived over the time period.\u201d

The number of bags Oosterom and his team can create out of a single banner also depends on how much of the banner is covered in usable design as opposed to blank space.

\u201cThey\u2019ve kind of got this artsy, industrial chic \u2026 and what I\u2019m going to do with every bag I sell, I will stick the catalogue or the handout from that show (those banners) came from. So in case you didn\u2019t see the show, you\u2019ll have the context for where that little piece of artwork came from. \u2026 So hopefully, people will start wearing these around town and they\u2019ll be able to recognize, \u2018Oh, my bag goes with that bag.\u2019 So I think it\u2019s kind of this neat sort of way of connecting people as well,\u201d Brayham said.

While supplies of the bags made from existing banners are limited, Brayham said her goal now is to have Oosterom and his team create tote bags from new exhibition banners. That will keep the material out of landfill while giving patrons a way to show their support for the gallery.

For more information or to purchase a bag, call Gallery Stratford at 519-271-5271 or email Brayham at abrayham@gallerystratford.on.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gallery Stratford is now selling tote bags made from the recycled banners that once advertised past art exhibitions at the gallery.Galen Simmons, The Stratford Beacon Herald,\u00a0Publishing date:Feb 07, 2021\u00a0Original article\u00a0here.\u00a0Gallery Stratford has partnered with Stratford\u2019s Tall Man Promo to create unique tote bags made from recycled banners from the art gallery\u2019s past exhibitions. Pictured, Gallery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,1],"tags":[96,8],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallman.promo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallman.promo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallman.promo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallman.promo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallman.promo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tallman.promo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":382,"href":"https:\/\/tallman.promo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallman.promo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tallman.promo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallman.promo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tallman.promo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}