GENERAL INFO

Arts and Found is a thrift store for art supplies. We know that art is for everyone and strive to provide affordable art supplies to all. Our focus on sustainability means that we source our products from environmentally conscious suppliers; YOU! All our materials come from the local community, recycling and transfer stations, and business donations. We are committed to reminding the community anyone can make art, and there is no 'wrong' way to create. If you have any questions about our store or our products, please contact us. We're here for you.

FAQs

WHAT IS THIS PLACE?

We are a creative reuse business. We accept clean, reusable art and craft materials from businesses and individuals and sell them to folks who are looking for items to try out new hobbies, or just want something with more character than your average art store.
- Can you imagine a Joanne's (rip), Ace Hardware, and Restoration Habitat all in one place?!
We take in donations of things that businesses and folks don't want any more. Then we clean all those things up and offer them for sale.
- We also aim to offer the community a space to create art of their own/together; once we have a permanent location.
GOT a garage or storage unit that needs emptying?
- Let us know! Email us via our HOME page contact form.
WHO WOULD WANT ALL OF THIS STUFF?
- More people than you can imagine. There is no limit to the creativity in the arts and crafting communities, and that creativity is fueled by ready access to high quality materials in sufficient quantity and at great prices. And, until the artists and materials find each other at Arts and Found, we are happy to clear them out of YOUR way.
ARE MY DONATIONS TAX DEDUCTIBLE?
- No, unfortunately. However, THIS work keeps all your "junk" out of the landfill and THAT is a tax deduction for the earth.
WHEN/HOW DO YOU ACCEPT DONATIONS?
- At this time we schedule them individually and we COME TO YOU! Please go to our HOME page and reach out through our mailing list. Include 3 best available times and we’ll get back to you within 24hours.
WHAT ABOUT BUSINESS DONATIONS?
- Same as above.
HOW DOES THIS WORK?
- Well, it's just like any other store, except everything we offer for sale has a past!
See below for a list of alllll the items we currently accept.

DONATIONS

272,809

Number of POUNDAGE

diverted from landfills in 2023

through Creative ReUse programs like Scrap Re: Annual Report FY23

196

The number of ITEMS on our YES PLEASE list of donations

BRING US THESE ALL THESE THINGS!

Art Books
Art Supplies
Baby food jars (with lids)
Ball point pens & caps
Banners
Baskets
Beads (broken OK)
Bicycle frames & parts
Blankets & Afghans (wool & handmade)
Blocks
Bones
Books (children’s, art and craft ESPECIALLY)
Bottle caps (plastic & metal)
Broken things
Brown paper grocery bags
Brushes (new & used)
Bullet casings
Burlap (fabric & sacks)
Buttons
Calendars with pictures
Cameras

Candles (used or new)

Carryout food containers (CLEAN ONLY please, come on just give it a rinse)
Candy wrappers
Canvases (new & used)
Card stock
Cardboard tubes (not from TP)
Cards (greeting, playing & tarot)
Cash & coins

Ceramic molds (for use in kilns)
Cigar boxes & bands
Circuit boards
Clay (modeling, polymer & metal)
Clay roof tiles
Clothing -- 100% wool & silk
Clothing -- leather & suede

Costume pieces of all shapes, genres, time periods...

(However, we're not a clothing thrift store, so most clothing will be best at another Thrift location, thanks!)

Coat hangers all kinds, especially wooden and children's
Coffee cans
Coffee cup sleeves
Collections
Colored paper
Colored tape
Coloring books
Comic books
Computer guts and monitors and cords
Construction paper
Containers of all kinds
Corks
Craft books & craft magazines
Craft kits & misc craft items
Crayons (pieces OK)
Decorative doodads
Electrical parts
Envelopes

Empty DVD, cassette, or VHS cases
Ephemera (old newspapers, letters, postcards, movie stubs, etc..)

Eyeglass lenses & frames
Fabric (cut yardage & on-bolt)
Fabric samples & sample books
Fabric selvages
Feathers
Feed sacks
Felt
Film, negatives & film canisters
Flags
Flatware (silver & stainless)
Flawed items, rejects & clear-outs
Flooring
Floor plans & blueprints
Floral supplies
Flower pots
Foam core
Foam pieces
Frames & frame parts
Games & game pieces (incomplete OK)
Gasket scraps
Gauges
Gears
Gift boxes
Gift wrap & bows
Glass (picture frame & stained glass)
Glass jars (with lids - Mason and baby food only)
Glass pebbles
Gloves
Grain sacks
Guitar picks
Handkerchiefs
Hardware (misc nuts, bolts & bits)
Hats
Holiday decorations
Industrial by-products
Industrial discards, misprints & overruns

Jars of all kinds, lids or no.
Jewelry (whole & broken pieces)
Jewelry boxes
Keys
Kitchen miscellaneous
Knobs & pulls
Lab equipment
Lamp shades & frames

Magazines (especially Nat Geo, art, or craft)
Magnets
Mannequins
Maps
Marble & marbles

Mardi Gras beads
Markers
Matte Board
Medical instruments (dental too)
Mesh vegetable bags
Meters (testing & parking)
Mirrors (whole & broken pieces)
Musical instruments
Mylar
National Geographic magazines
Natural materials (pine cones, acorns)
Needles (sewing, knitting, crochet)
Netting
Newsprint (blank)

Newspapers -all kinds
Notions
Oatmeal containers
Office supplies
Paint
Paintings (watercolor or on canvas)
Paper (kraft, colored & construction paper)
Pencils
Photos
Picture frames
Pine cones
Place mats
Plastic Tubing

Plastic Utensils
Plexi-glass
Plumbing parts

Puzzles and puzzle pieces
Posters
Purses (leather, suede & embellished)
Quilts & quilt tops
Recipe cards
Records
Ribbon
Ric rac
Rock & shell collections
Rope, twine & cording
Rubber & neoprene scraps
Rubber bands
Scarves
Scissors
Seashells
Shiny things
Shopping bags (paper only)
Smooth wood & wood turnings
Snaps
Spools (thread, wire & cable)
Stamps (rubber & postage)
Stickers
Stones
Suede
Tape (Duct & painters)
Tea bag envelopes
Teeth
Telephone wire
Test tubes
Textiles
Thimbles
Thread
Three ring binders
Tickets
Ties
Tins
Tiny things

Toilet paper tubes
Toolboxes
Tools (hand & small electric)
Toys
Traffic lights
Trim

Trophies
T-shirts (concert & cool)
Tulle
Uniforms
Vases

VHS or cassette tapes
Vintage everything
Vinyl & leather pieces & scraps
Wallpaper & wallpaper sample books
Watches & watch parts
Wine bottles

Webbing

Wire
Wood pieces, trim & veneer
Wool blankets & sweaters
Yarn

Number of ITEMS on our, not-right-now thanks list

House paint in one gallon or larger cans
Scrap Lumber (we do not have the space... YET!)
Styrofoam (again, no space currently.)