From the Museum of Vancouver:

"The Museum of Vancouver is pleased to announce that a donation of $5,000 has been made to the Association of Forest Communities of Petén (ACOFOP) in Guatemala, thanks to purchases of art, furniture, jewellery and more from Reclaim + Repair: The Mahogany Project. A cheque presentation ceremony was held at the Consulate General of Guatemala in Vancouver on October 28, 2024.

Reclaim + Repair: The Mahogany Project was on view at the Museum of Vancouver from July 20, 2023 through September 2, 2024. Thirty-one local designers and makers were selected to create 22 objects made from vintage mahogany. This wood was harvested from the 1950s to 1970s in Guatemala and Nicaragua and came from a local business that designed and manufactured boating equipment. When it closed, the leftover wood was stored for decades before it was donated it to the MOV’s upcycling design program, SAGE. The MOV partnered with Propellor Studio, who selected the designers whose work would become part of the exhibition.

Works created for the exhibition were for sale with the goal of donating a portion of the sales to Indigenous-led reforestation efforts in Central America, where the mahogany was extracted.

Thanks to support from the Consulate General of Guatemala in Vancouver and the National Council for Protected Areas (Consejo Nacional de Areas Protegidas, CONAP), the Association of Forest Communities of Petén (Asociación de Comunidades Forestales de Peten: ACOFOP) was selected to received $5,000—one-third of the sales from The Mahogany Project exhibition."

Read the full release here.