2025 Salvage showdown
December Artist Spotlight
This summer, we asked 14 local artists, builders, and makers what they could do with $100 of salvaged materials from the ReBuilding Center. They came to our store and sought inspiration from old-growth lumber, hardwood floors, and antique fixtures - all rescued from the landfill. And they created beautiful, functional, pieces of art.
We came together at the Salvage Showdown in September to celebrate reuse, and vote on the winner of the Scrappy Award. 8 of the amazing builds were sold at a live auction, raising thousands to support Portland’s heart of community-based reuse.
But we held back some of the best builds to raffle off to all of you!
Kick back and listen to a record, or indulge in your favorite video game, Raffle tickets are just $15 and raise funds for the ReBuilding Center - so we can continue to rescue materials like this from the landfill.
Jon TAGUCHI
Our December Artist Spotlight is shining on Jon Taguchi! Designed to sit below a wall mounted large flatscreen TV. The spaces are 13.5 inches and 6.3 inches tall. Perfect for remotes, gaming consoles, audio components, Wi-Fi router, and especially suited for a vinyl record collection and a thin long sound bar. Comes with an adjustable shelf for the lower middle space, a white 12 plug 4 USB power strip, and transparent doors that work with remote controls.
A $15 donation will earn you 1 entry, $30 will get you 2 entries, and so on. At the end of November, we will select one lucky winner to take home this build - and will introduce a new spotlight piece for December!
Winner must be able to pick up the winning build from the ReBuilding Center.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jon enjoys building with hollow core doors, precisely because they are so unloved by most people. In reality, they are stable, geometric slabs of handsome wood veneer and a lightweight, minimalist solid wood frame and that signature honeycomb corrugated paper board core that makes it rigid enough to hold some weight.
Through the RBC, Jon enjoys helping divert them from the landfill, preserving their embodied energy, and gently reshape them with minimal cutting waste into something simple, modern, functional, and beautiful.