Upcycled!, a multi-year project at Winterthur, launched in the fall of 2021 with a community-driven art project developed in partnership with Winterthur’s neighboring communities and institutional partners. The resulting project was installed at Winterthur and one other site within the Wilmington and/or greater New Castle County area.
Winterthur is embarking on this exciting project as we invite our community members, visitors, staff, artists, scholars and students to participate in reimagining our vibrant future as an active and engaged cultural heritage site within our region and in the broader world. Upcycling is traditionally defined as creating an object of greater value from a discarded object of lesser value. Winterthur will explore upcycling in a broader context and will include categories such as: assembled, transformed, recycled, altered, repaired, and preserved.