Welcome to the  DIY Community Art Box!!! Our goal is to inspire anonymous community art sharing, expression, and connection through our network of SD community box libraries for handmade creations. Our project was loosely based off of those neighborhood box libraries where people can drop off and take used books at their leisure. However, we put a DIY-punk spin on it. Our DIY Community Art Boxes are for any homemade piece of creation that the community can anonymously (or not) share such as self made art, zines, pins, poems, short stories, trinkets and found things, or basically anything of artistic value. This is hoped to inspire a culture of expression and connection at a localized community scale. We genuinely hope that these become a source of free thinking and casual expression that sparks conversation and new ideas. The boxes themselves have been so fun to make and design with up-cycled and thrifted materials as we hope they display the conceptual theme of the containments inside, and our work overall. 

Anyone and everyone is welcome to interact with our network with the exception that you contribute to the culture we are trying to build by adding to the collections within the boxes/containers in some small way that expresses your creativity ;) 

The DIY ideology being represented is a way of peeling back the layers of consumerist society. In a day and age where attention spans are short and expectations are immense, showing a genuine display of raw production from the work of personal human hands is rare. And it is a rareness that should be cultivated. That is what we are aiming to do. 

The culture of punk has always been a counter cultural rejection of the mainstream. This is no exception. The supply and demand for products today typically is built on the basis of quick, easy, and cheap production for higher profit and marketability. 

Take everyday clothing as an example. It is a way to express oneself through something common and typical. However, today there is a growing statistic of this idea of "fast fashion". These are clothes that are typically sourced unethically, manufactured inhumanely and with brutal working conditions, and are produced with sub-par quality. This industry and others like it with this "quick and cheap" ideology take away from the expressive element of making your own outfits and accessories to your own tastes, as well as the much more sustainable and creative practice of thrifting and upcycling clothing. 

Modern consumerism with its "quick and easy" supply and demand have reduced the idea of craftsmanship and personal creativity due to the facts that grassroots and handmade expression are less and less cultivated. This is why it is so important to build a space where honest and genuine creation is valued. The intimacy of handcrafting is unmatched in the world of art. 

There is nothing being made for a profit or a goal of money. This means that everything in these spaces was made simply because inspiration took hold and creative authenticity was produced. That is the impact that we hope to have on the world of art, expression, DIY, and punk.