A bright library with large arched windows, wooden bookshelves filled with books, a wooden table in the center with art supplies, and stools around the table.

The Upcycle Center

Coming to NYC Soon

An innovative creative space founded by Brooklyn artist Nina Boesch and Manhattan writer Darla Decker, The Upcycle Center will introduce and build alternative ways of thinking about what is considered waste. Using a cradle-to-cradle philosophy (design everything with the next version of the product in mind), The Upcycle Center will offer bins and bins full of vintage magazines, still beautiful used greeting cards, old packaging and shipping materials, and the tools needed to transform these materials into their next iteration, their next life.

This fun and free experience will help transform participants into environmentalists, artists, and activists. We can all learn to waste nothing, learn to buy less.

(The space render has been created in Adobe Firefly — AI trained with licensed and royalty free images)

A collection of miscellaneous travel and transit items spread out on a wooden surface, including tickets, boarding passes, a yellow wireless earbuds package, a colorful spiral sticker, a white and red box, and various paper documents.

The Upcycle Center provides easy entry for all ages into what might be perceived as an intimidating space—the makerspace. But everyone can be a maker; everyone was once a five-year-old who loved to draw! The Center can help you rediscover your inner child.

Hand holding a plastic sleeve with assorted colorful stickers and cards on a wooden surface.

The Upcycle Center is currently in its funding phase. Nina Boesch and Darla Decker are actively seeking funding to make the Center become a reality with a planned opening for 2027.

Stay tuned for more info!

Questions?

Are you interested in volunteering or donating to the Upcycle Center? Nina and Darla would love to hear from you! Please send any questions, feedback or ideas to: nina@ninaboesch.com.