Little Bluebird Studios Launches Project GreenTee

by Carolyn Cannini

This month we are excited to announce that our t-shirt shop, Little Bluebird Studios is launching a national t-shirt reclamation effort. Through Project GreenTee we will “reclaim” used t-shirts from our friends and supporters all over the country for redesign in the Little Bluebird shop. We will be working with some talented and artistic students to design new screen prints that will be printed and sewn onto the existing shirts to create unique custom-made clothing. Redesigned t-shirts will be for sale through our youth center and the Little Bluebird Studios online storefront. For examples of reclaimed and redesigned work from Little Bluebird Studios, click here.

The idea for Project GreenTee was born during a recent brainstorming discussion of several AYM staff members about what we can do to increase social and environmental consciousness and responsibility within our organization. Although Project GreenTee is a small step, we believe that through efforts like this we can model a creative, resourceful and sustainable ethic for our students. We believe that these principles of business not only align with strengths within the White Mountain Apache culture, but are also indispensible elements of thriving contemporary businesses.

Project GreenTee further provides us a tangible avenue to explore with students the spiritual significance of reclaiming and redesigning something discarded. We hope to use the visible transformation of the cast-off, used t-shirts into new, presentable and unique clothing as an illustration of what Christ is doing inside each of us as believers. We pray this project will create open doors to share the good news, the message of reconciliation in Christ, with searching students.

If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. II Corinthians 5:17-19

If you would like to partner with Project GreenTee for your next church, school or community group service project, click here to find out how!