Off the Street Picture Frame Being Sold in Beck's Bookstore

Our Off the Street picture frames are now available at Beck's Bookstore at 50 E Chicago.


These frames are made from Chicago recycled material such as transit cards and ticket stubs made by local folks who have been formerly homeless.

Please consider our Recycled Picture Frame for your upcoming events. Through our income generating program we have been able to employ five StreetWise Vendors in 2009.

If you have an interest in this product for fundraising events, weddings or coporate gives, let us know if you would like to customize the triangle piece. We did this for a large corporate order at Christmas time.

All frames have the picture, signature and location where the StreetWise vendor (aka. artist) sells their newspaper.

Helping others through fashion

Glenn A. Hughes has been reaching to better his life since the early 1990's. He has been a StreetWise vendor for over ten years and is now participating as an atrist in the five ACCESSORIES' income generating program called 'Off The Street'. Glenn is making picture frames adorned with unslightly litter such as transit cards and sports ticket stubs collected off the streets of Chicago.

When asked what he wants to write on his personalized hangtag that accompanies each product he makes, Glenn decided to say the following:

'Never look down on anyone until you are reaching down to help them up. In order to know where you are going, you need to know and appreciate where you have been'.