Global Free Store

Artists Athena Robles and Anna Stein presented Free Store, an exhibition and non-commercial storefront installation, in lower Manhattan. Part cultural pop-up shop, part second hand boutique, the project was a networking model of economic sustenance that can be used in cities worldwide. This first Global Free Store open from Thursday, February 19th and remained open until Sunday, March 22, 2009.

Free Shopping:
Using the barter and exchange system, visitors could give something useful or get
something useful at Free Store. Located blocks away from Wall Street, Free Store accepted donations of items such as books and clothing, offer these items for the taking, and stock a few items produced in-house by the artists.

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