This coming Saturday, our friends at Artists for Humanity are hosting a huge Earth Day-themed event at their South Boston location. “The Greatest Party on Earth” is a fund raising event that will also highlight the work of the student artists and generate publicity and enthusiasm for the organization. As a sponsor of the event, we’re really excited to help get the word out about the great work that AFH does with inner city high schoolers here in Boston. We’re so inspired, in fact, that we’ve been working on a couple of really cool and creative projects for the event.

We wanted to come up with a fun giveaway that the 700+ attendees could take away at the end of the night – something that would remind them about Merida and AFH, but that would also reflect our shared beliefs in sustainability and creativity. The result? Adorable coasters made out of scrap material from our woven-in-Fall-River Viewpoint collection! Maegan and I have had lots of fun sewing the coasters – check out the video below to see how skilled we’ve become with the sewing machine:

Now we’re working on bundling them up in cute bow-tied packages with a small brochure and a special offer coupon for attendees. We hope everyone likes them. What do you think?

Another project we’ve been working on for this event is a fabulous seating arrangement conceived by AFH sculpture students and their mentor (and Boston-based sculptor/designer) Nick Rodrigues. Nick and his team conceived the “Global Seating” concept to use some of Merida’s scrap material in a creative and educational way – each continent-shaped stool will be covered with material that Marida sources from that continent! Below is a graphic rendering of the concept, and we can’t wait to see the real thing at the event next weekend.

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