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Visit the first ever SXMS Conference at our 37th Street Stuffed Animal Petting Zoo. Meet the top 10 stuffed entrepreneurs, innovators, and trendsetters of 2024.

Come meet them and apply to give them new homes.

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Take a break from last-minute back-to-school shopping, and stop by our stuffy sidewalk sale on Sunday, August 18th from 10am-2pm. We’ll have tons of previously-loved stuffies for sale!

Come meet them and give them new homes. Help relieve stuffy overcrowding at The SARF Headquarters (as always, we are a no-kill shelter), and support our cause!

We’ll also have our SARF t-shirts for humans and our snazzy new Matisse-inspired poster for sale.

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1400 E 38th 1/2 St, Austin, TX 78722″ font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1723137048361{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_column_text]

Now through September 8, at Cherrywood (1400 E 38th 1/2 St, Austin, TX 78722), you can enjoy the latest work (and some old favorites) of 15 talented stuffed animal artists while you sip your coffee or eat your breakfast or guzzle a beer or chomp on a sandwich.

Each art piece is accompanied by its stuffed artist’s statement, and all artwork is FOR SALE! Now is your chance to own a piece of SARF history! Go check it out!

We are thrilled that the folks at Cherrywood are keen on supporting the stuffed animal artist community.

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The International Stuffed Animal Pharmaceutical Expo is currently taking place at our 37th Street Lights stuffed animal petting zoo in Austin! Come by after dark until 11pm to meet rescued stuffies that are up for adoption, and find out about the latest breakthrough medications in the stuffed animal pharmaceutical industry. Read amazing case studies from actual stuffed patients, and also learn some great tips on navigating the Medibear healthcare system.

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Saturday & Sunday November 11-12, 12-6pm
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We’re a part of the Austin Studio Tour (WEST) this year. Visit us November 4-5 and 11-12 from 12-6pm! The Still Life II features new artwork from 10 exciting stuffed artists.

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Austin, TX | October, 2023″ font_container=”tag:h4|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1696369081795{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Freallysmallmuseum_atx%2F|target:_blank”][vc_column_text]

Transcendental Basketry is a collaboration between the Arachnid Artist Guild of Austin, the Odditree Society (Ann Armstrong and Linneaus Marshall), and The Stuffed Animal Rescue Foundation (Wendy Mitchell)

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Join us!

Artist Talk + Workshop

6:30 – 7:30pm
Thursday October 19
at the Really Small Museum

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The Arachnid Artist Guild of Austin is a tightly-woven collective of three eight-legged stuffed sculptors who explore time, space, and culture through their individual and collaborative works.

The artists, Annette Weft (a black widow), Charlotte Lasher (a pantropical huntsman), and Thorn Catchman (a Joro), met in a shipping container on a long journey from Southeast Asia in 2021, and they reconnected in Austin, Texas a year later.

During their three-month joint-residency at The SARF / Odditree Society, the spiders explored a variety of natural materials for their latest work before eventually settling on rattan.

They began weaving their Transcendental Basketry piece in the summer of 2023 on a retreat at Devils River State Natural Area, and its current iteration at the Really Small Museum will continue to grow and change throughout the month.

The Arachnid Artist Guild will also have pieces in The SARF’s Biennial Stuffed Artist Art Show during the Austin Studio Tour in November.

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Read more about rattan, spiders, rattan-spiders… (just kidding, rattan-spiders aren’t a thing)

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Rattan/Reed/Cane

General info:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattan

Harvesting:

https://www.orchid-edition.com/en/blog/the-origin-of-rattan-n5

Processing:

https://www.orchid-edition.com/en/blog/preparation-of-rattan-n7

Rattan Palms….is it a vine or a tree?! A thorny question.

https://www.indefenseofplants.com/blog/2018/10/2/the-wild-world-of-rattan-palms

3 Texas “invasive” spiders

https://a-z-animals.com/blog/discover-the-invasive-spiders-crawling-all-over-texas/

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Thorn: Joro Spider

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/05/1084692989/giant-spiders-east-coast
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/03/1185864125/big-mysterious-harmless-joro-spiders-have-made-themselves-at-home-in-georgia
https://www.audacy.com/987thespot/latest/flying-spiders-as-big-as-your-hand-are-invading-texas

Annette: Black Widow

https://texasinsects.tamu.edu/southern-black-widow-spider/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus_mactans

Charlotte: Pantropical Huntsman

https://usaspiders.com/heteropoda-venatoria-pantropical-huntsman/
http://www.tsusinvasives.org/home/database/heteropoda-venatoria

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Really Small Museum- ECO
Small can be BIG. Street-side community-based eco art exhibitions.
The 14th Corner Contemporary | 1311 Harvey Street
Th Banton Road Museum of Art | 3509 Banton Road

@reallysmallmuseum_atx

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The Arachnid Artist Guild of Austin is a collective of three stuffed spider artists: Annette Weft (a black widow), Charlotte Lasher (a Pan-Tropical Huntsman), and Thorn Catchman (a Joro).

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The Odditree Society is a loose affiliation of urban wanderers and wonderers, artists, philosophers, scientists, nut-gatherers, tree-climbers, and others who cultivate a sense of curiosity around the unexpected oddities found in Austin’s urban ecology.

@odditree_society
odditrees@gmail.com

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The Stuffed Animal Rescue Foundation is an arts and medical organization that rescues, rehabilitates, and rehomes stuffies. We conduct adoptions, provide surgical care, and host events that showcase the talents of Austin’s stuffed animal community.

@thesarforg
info@thesarf.org

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Linnaeus “Linn” Marshall

Curator in Residence, Odditree Society

Linnaeaus “Linn” Marshall is self-taught stuffed naturalist and artist hailing from Webberville, Texas. As a young ringtail, he spent many nights on the front porch listening to his grandmother (a naturalist in her own right) tell stories of the 1961 fish kill incident on the Colorado River, an environmental disaster that exposed local live and stuffed wildlife to harmful chemical waste originating from an Austin insecticide manufacturer. The incident had drastic effects on the area’s stuffed ringtail population, which was often seen frolicking and washing in the river. Repeated exposure to the contaminants eventually turned their fur from a light tan to a bright neon yellow. Linn’s family’s first-hand accounts of the disaster and its fallout instilled in him not only a deep desire to observe and protect the natural world, but also a fascination with how toxins can affect fiber-based creatures for multiple generations. His own inherited neon yellow tail is both an integral part of his identity as an artist, and a constant reminder of the tragic effects environmental toxins can have on exposed populations.

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Ann Armstrong

Founder, Odditree Society

Ann is a human architect and maker with a design practice in Austin, Tx. Her creative work takes the form of illustrated field guides, workshops, play structures, immersive walks, interpretive programming, and cartography. She loves developing tools to help people more intimately engage with and understand: place, ecology, and history. She’s been gathering hand-drawn maps of Austin through participatory events since 2012 and is building an idiosyncratic, hyper-local atlas of the city. In 2013, she founded the Odditree Society–a public platform for increasing awareness and advocacy of Austin’s urban forest. In 2021 she was the Observer-in-Residence at The Contemporary Austin and wrapped up her tenure with an illustrated tool for exploring the museum grounds with fresh eyes. She is currently doing field research for an immersive guide to Austin’s natural and man-made hydrological infrastructure.

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Wendy Mitchell

Founder, The Stuffed Animal Rescue Foundation

As a toddler, Wendy cried every time she heard You Are My Sunshine, and she was very particular about nighttime stuffed animal placement. Many years later, she studied Art and Art History at The University of Georgia, wrote a lot of songs, and eventually moved to Austin, TX. There, she quickly realized that Ctrl+Z was much more efficient than a Kneadable Eraser.

Since then, she has worked as a graphic and web designer/developer, animator, writer, song-crafter, production designer, and general creative problem-solver. She currently runs The Stuffed Animal Rescue Foundation, occasionally shoots cans off of her porch from her bedroom with a Red Ryder BB gun, obsesses over the number of choices in grocery store toilet paper aisles, and plays a lot of volleyball and tennis. She has adequate-but-noticeably-aging hand-eye coordination and is intermittently thinking about working on a play or novel or thought experiment based on a fictional reality TV show involving advertising, marketing professionals, sadness, the internet, and outer space.

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Annette Weft

Stuffed Black Widow Weaver, Arachnid Artist Guild of Austin

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Charlotte Lasher

Stuffed Pantropical Huntsman Weaver, Arachnid Artist Guild of Austin

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Thorn Catchman

Stuffed Joro Weaver, Arachnid Artist Guild of Austin

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Stuffed Animal Adoption Day!

Saturday April 29th 12-4pm

at The SARF Headquarters
2825 Hancock Drive #111 Austin, TX 78731

Dogs, cats, dolphins, squirrels… You name it. Come meet rescued stuffies seeking permanent homes. They are eager to share their bios and discuss the details. If you find a good fit, enjoy an adoption on the spot.

Please join us for this event on Saturday April 29, 12-4pm. in our parking lot (or inside if it rains!) Adoption fees on a sliding scale! No interested living companion will be turned away due to inability to pay.

Austin Studio Tour – #235

Nov. 12-13 & Nov. 19-20 12pm-4pm
at Austin Creative Alliance – 81 San Marcos St. Austin, TX
with Vision Gland art collective

We’ll be at 81 San Marcos St. Austin, TX (Austin Creative Alliance) for the next two weekends (stop #235 on the Austin Studio Tour), where we’re joining up with Vision Gland art collective!

We will have a stuffed animal food truck. We have pretended to partner with a highly-touted local eatery to pretend to provide food for Austin’s hippest stuffed epicurean gastro(g)nomes. Expect long lines of foodie stuffies with the most refined of palates. Think Franklin BBQ, but without the food or humans.

If you don’t know them, the Vision Gland folks are pretty epic. They made their own roller coaster a few years ago… and a human-sized hamster wheel… among many other things. So, duh, you should come see what awesome fun elaborate constructions they’ve created this time! The theme is Arcade – so there will be lots of large and playable games for your wonderment and awe.

Nov. 12-13 & Nov. 19-20 12pm-4pm at Austin Creative Alliance – 81 San Marcos St. Austin, TX

OPENING SATURDAY 10/27/22! 12-4PM!
UP THROUGH NOVEMBER!
Come see our rescued stuffed animals in all their costumed glory! There is an iguana dressed as a cupcake, a monkey dressed as a bunny… and much much more!

Also, our Administrative Office Workers are having a Halloween Costume Contest, so be sure to vote for your favorite costume during your visit!