beautiful stuff

UPDATED OCTOBER 21, 2002

Contacts:
510.465.8770 voice
510.465.0772 fax

Rae Holzman

Director, Museum Programs
ext. 310

The Museum of Children's Art

Donate your stuff!
Mocha has a commitment to using recycled art materials, and a reputation for finding creative uses for unusual objects. Where do we get our "stuff"?
Generous donations from YOU!

Call before you bring down your stuff, though. Our imagination is unlimited,
but alas, our storage space is not.

That said, we are almost always on the look out for:
  • Paper of all kinds-gift wrap, mat board, shiny paper, sticky paper,
    tissue paper, plain old drawing paper...you get the idea
  • Usable art supplies of any kind-paint, ink, pencils, chalk, clay and so on
  • Small gift boxes/shoe boxes and/or film canisters with lids
  • Buttons, lace & other sewing notions
  • Bottlecaps, corks, babyfood jars with lids
  • Beads, bangles, baubles and other small shiny objects
  • Wire, yarn, ribbon, thin chain, string
  • Calendars and magazines with good (G-rated) pictures we can cut out
  • Decorations, including tinsel, garland, crepe-paper streamers, doilies
  • Fancy things, like feathers, pipe cleaners, dried flowers, shells and pompoms
  • Office supplies-envelopes, file folders, presentation folders, rubber bands
  • Samples of wallpaper, little squares of countertop tile and stuff like that
  • Old CDS, CD jewelcases, metal foils
  • Anything interesting-if you look at it and think "This stuff is so cool;I wonder what could be made out of it?", call us, we'll think of something!

Donations from large or small business are welcome!
Call if you have leftover supplies, promotional materials, presentation folders or other intriguing items.

We SOMETIMES accept toilet paper rolls, egg cartons or yogurt style containers (16 or 32 oz size), but we cannot stress this enough...
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, call before you pack up these or any other goodies and come on down. Sometimes we are overstocked on these items, and we won't be able to accept them. It breaks our heart, but storage space at MOCHA is a limited resource.

Finally we CAN NOT ACCEPT the following items:
  • Styrofoam packing peanuts/other packing materials
  • Large pieces of Styrofoam
  • Spray paints/household paint or toxic art paints/chemicals
  • Take-out/to go food containers
  • Any kind of plastic/glass container...We can ONLY accept babyfood jars with lids, film canisters with lids and 16 or 32 oz yogurt-type containers with lids.
Thank you!!! Without the generous and whimsical support of folks like you, our work would not be possible.
cdman!


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