REPURPOSED ITEMS FOR ART
Cleaning up your house? Found items you want to get rid of? Check the below list before throwing them in the trash bin. The Texas Art Asylum accepts a long list of items for donation. Items donated are offered for sale to artists for reuse, repurposing or up-cycling.
Check Texas Art Asylum website for donations dates.
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)
Bottle caps (plastic & metal)
Broken things
Brown paper grocery bags
Bullet casings
Burlap (fabric & sacks)
Buttons
Calendars with pictures
Cameras
Candy wrappers
Card stock
Cardboard tubes
Cards (greeting, playing & tarot)
Cash & coins
Ceramic tiles (broken is OK)
Cigar boxes & bands
Circuit boards
Clay (modeling, polymer & metal)
Clay roof tiles
Clothing -- 100% wool & silk
Clothing -- leather & suede
Coffee cans
Coffee cup sleeves
Collections
Colored paper
Colored tape
Coloring books
Comic books
Computer guts
Construction paper
Containers of all kinds
Corks
Craft books & craft magazines
Craft kits & misc craft items
Crayons (pieces OK)
Decorative doodads
Electrical parts
Envelopes
Ephemera
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
Floorplans & 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)
Glass pebbles
Gloves
Grain sacks
Guitar picks
Handkerchiefs
Hardware (misc nuts, bolts & bits)
Hats
Holiday decorations
Industrial by-products
Industrial discards, misprints & overruns
Jewelry (whole & broken pieces)
Jewelry boxes
Keys
Kitchen miscellaneous
Knobs & pulls
Lab equipment
Lamp shades & frames
Magnets
Mannequins
Maps
Marble & marbles
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 only)
Notions
Oatmeal containers
Office supplies
Paint cans
Paintings (watercolor or on canvas)
Paper (kraft, colored & construction paper)
Pencils
Photos
Picture frames
Pine cones
Place mats
Plastic eating utensils (unused only, please)
Plastic Tubing
Plexi-glass
Plumbing parts
Posters
Purses (leather, suede & embellished)
Puzzles (incomplete is OK)
Quilts & quilt tops
Recipe cards
Records
Ribbon
Ric rac
Rock & shell collections
Rope, twine & cording
Rubber & neoprene scraps
Rubber bands
Scarves
Scissors
Scrap lumber
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
Toolboxes
Tools (hand & small electric)
Toys
Traffic lights
Trim
T-shirts (concert & cool)
Tulle
Uniforms
Vases
Vintage everything
Vinyl & leather pieces & scraps
Wallpaper & wallpaper sample books
Watches & watch parts
Webbing
Wire
Wood pieces, trim & veneer
Wool blankets & sweaters
Yarn