SCRAP-SF

SCRAP-SF SCRAP is a non-profit working at the intersection of arts, education and the environment. What treasure will YOU Find? Donations by appointment only.
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As the nation’s first creative reuse center, we make zero-waste art materials and arts education accessible to the San Francisco Bay Area. SCRAP is here for DIYers, Artists, Teachers, Parents, Children and Creative People.

“What’s the weirdest thing people donate to SCRAP ?”“Well, we’ve seen a little bit of everything over the years and I’ve...
09/03/2026

“What’s the weirdest thing people donate to SCRAP ?”
“Well, we’ve seen a little bit of everything over the years and I’ve collected my fair share of it in the process.
Whether it’s old crime scene photographs, dubious-prosthetics, or mummified-pets; it eventually finds its way to us.
I started to notice the occasional instance of families donating adult and baby-teeth. If I had a dime for every time it happened I could afford a cup of coffee😜.
It got to the point that I asked the customers and friends:
What should I make with all of these teeth that hasn’t really been done before?
And one of the bears in my life suggested a studded-jacket.
Well, I fell in love with the idea!
Here we have the gross-result of sifting teeth from thousands of pounds of materials and 2-years of SCRAP donations.”
-Jake Lindsay
Intake Coordinator at SCRAP-SF

What kind of art would you make with teeth?

Welcome to the new SCRAP Workshop! To celebrate our grand opening, please join us this September for a lineup taught by ...
08/21/2026

Welcome to the new SCRAP Workshop! To celebrate our grand opening, please join us this September for a lineup taught by SCRAP staff, volunteers, and long-time teaching artists!

September at SCRAP:
🎨 Sept. 10 | Painting with Watercolor with Derrick Fox Marquez
🌀 Sept. 12 | Experimental Cyanotype Bandanas with Maya Djiji
✨ Sept. 15 | Free Teacher Workshop: Light & Shadow with Aiko Cuneo
🪡 Sept. 25 | Visible Mending: Patch Your Jeans by Hand with Radha Weaver
🧃 Sept. 26 | Tiny Tetra Pak Printmaking with Monica Lee

📍SCRAP
141 Industrial St #1, San Francisco, CA 94124

Visit the link in our bio to register. Can’t wait to see you there!

OPENING WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS! 🎉The new SCRAP Depot opened this past weekend, to a heartwarming and encouraging show of com...
08/21/2026

OPENING WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS! 🎉The new SCRAP Depot opened this past weekend, to a heartwarming and encouraging show of community support.

900+ people came through on Opening Day, the parking lot got its first workout, and we broke out our new totes, fabric wall + a massive selection of BEADS donated by General Bead

There was Mister Softee Nor Cal 🍦, ATLAS COFFEE BAR ☕, a tree planting with California Climate Action Now! a ribbon cutting with the SCRAPpiest scissors made by Aiko Cuneo ✂️ — and a whole lot of community love.

SCRAP’s new home, and our swift relocation and reopening wouldn’t have happened without the community that’s shown up for us since we launched SCRAP to the Future, our Capital Campaign, last fall.

And we’re not finished yet! We’ve raised $3.3M — almost halfway to our $7.5M goal. Help us keep building SCRAP’s future. Donate via the link in bio!

Or visit www.givebutter.com/scrap-to-the-future

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO 👀 SCRAP GRAND OPENING. The moment you’ve all been waiting for is here! 🎉 This Saturday, August 15, we...
08/13/2026

KNOW BEFORE YOU GO 👀 SCRAP GRAND OPENING. The moment you’ve all been waiting for is here! 🎉 This Saturday, August 15, we’re opening the doors to our new home at 141 Industrial St. and we can’t wait to welcome you in. 💙

Swipe through for the need-to-knows on parking, entrance, shopping, bag check, pricing + more. ➡️

📣 One important update: Our pause on accepting material donations has been extended through August. Please hold onto your donations for now, we’ll begin accepting them again Tuesday, September 1.

Come celebrate with us, see you Saturday! 🎉

08/08/2026

So many have been curious about what it takes to move SCRAP… so here’s a little peek behind the scenes! 👀📦

The truth? This video barely scratches the surface. For every clip we captured, there were weeks of packing, organizing, hauling, and good old-fashioned scrappy resourcefulness by staff and volunteers that never made it to camera.

We’re busy getting the new SCRAP ready for our Grand Opening on Sat, Aug 15! 🎉

And while the Depot may be closed, you can still support SCRAP and help build our future. 🚀

Our capital campaign, SCRAP to the Future, is helping make this new home possible. Donate today 👉 www.givebutter.com/scrap-to-the-future 🔗 link in bio

Join us for our next round of volunteer parties! We’re in the home stretch of our move, and there’s still plenty to do. ...
08/05/2026

Join us for our next round of volunteer parties! We’re in the home stretch of our move, and there’s still plenty to do. Whether you’ve volunteered with us before or this is your first time, we’d love to have you.

🧹 Aug. 5 & 6: Outdoor Yard Cleanup at the old SCRAP
📦 Aug. 7 & 8: Sorting & Organizing Party at the new SCRAP

Come get a little dusty, meet fellow SCRAPpers, and help us close the chapter on our old Depot—or shape the next one at our new home. 💛

Sign up on Eventbrite or via the link in our bio.

Thank you to all of our students, teaching artists, and program partners for a great summer session of SCRAP in a Box an...
08/03/2026

Thank you to all of our students, teaching artists, and program partners for a great summer session of SCRAP in a Box and Sustainable Fashion Design!! We saw some incredible puppets, innovative patchwork, and impressive playground masterpieces.

Every spring, summer, and fall our teaching artists bring SCRAP materials into classrooms across San Francisco and deliver robust arts education programming. Want to see these projects in your after school classrooms or as a supplement for your art classes during the school day? Contact our Programs Manager Kayci at [email protected]

Big News SCRAP Community - We’ve launched SCRAP to the Future, a Capital Campaign for SCRAP’s new home! After almost 50 ...
07/30/2026

Big News SCRAP Community - We’ve launched SCRAP to the Future, a Capital Campaign for SCRAP’s new home! After almost 50 years of renting, we’ve purchased our forever home in the Bayview — and now we’re raising $7.5M to secure, transform, and grow into this new space. Thanks to early support, we’re already almost halfway to our goal!

This is a pivotal moment for SCRAP– to bring together the collective energy of our community to own our building and honor our 50-year legacy.

With any ecosystem, when one part is strengthened, the whole grows stronger. With that, we would be thrilled to have your support to help keep SCRAP’s ecosystem thriving.

Each campaign gift will be represented by a hand folded origami piece and displayed together as a symbol of SCRAP’s creative ecosystem – a visual testament to what collective community investment looks like, and what your generosity makes possible.

Let’s build SCRAP’s future… together! Donate today via link in bio!

The Depot may be closed, but SCRAP workshops continue offsite—thanks to our friends at Bayview’s Cafe Alma 💙 While we’re...
07/27/2026

The Depot may be closed, but SCRAP workshops continue offsite—thanks to our friends at Bayview’s Cafe Alma 💙 While we’re getting settled into our new home, one great way to support SCRAP is by joining us for a workshop.

This August, we’re diving into Paper + Print—a workshop series celebrating paper as a medium for art, storytelling, and experimentation.

August Workshop Series: Paper + Print
✨ Aug. 8 | Cyanotypes with Jacob Li Rosenberg
📚 Aug. 14 | Japanese Stab Bookbinding with Zoe Spikerman
✂️ Aug. 28 | Historical Narrative Collage with Travis Somerville

📍 Café Alma
888 Innes Ave, San Francisco, CA 94124

Visit the link in our bio to register. We can’t wait to create with you!

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Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 10pm - 6pm

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