Collaborative Art-Making Day
Make art with artists Alicia Renadette and Yohanna Roa
Saturday, May 18, 2024
11 am—2 pm
Free, drop-in, no experience necessary, all ages (children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult)
ABOUT THE EVENT:
Join Second Time Around exhibiting artists Alicia Renadette and Yohanna M Roa for a family-friendly drop-in art-making experience at the JAC. The artists will be creating collaborative artworks with you!
Participate in both or one, stay for a few minutes, or all day.
The exhibition, Second Time Around, brings together contemporary works that reimagine past stories, memories, objects, materials, images, and artistic practices in ways that further their meaning for the present and future.
Photo by Denise Marks
The Collaborative Art Making Day is supported by our newly established Local ECO ARTS Fund (LEAF), which strives to harness the transformational power of the arts and design to raise awareness about the environment and climate crisis and creatively inspire action, solutions for change, resiliency and HOPE.
ABOUT THE PROJECTS:
In the vein of her sculptural works Regenerate and Memory Complex 2, Alicia Renadette will guide participants in the creation of a collaborative sculptural textile using discarded, recycled, found, and sometimes forgotten materials. The JAC will provide materials for this piece, but we encourage you to bring your own found and recycled materials to help create the collaborative sculpture (see below).
Yohanna M Roa will be activating her textile mural Misshaping the Pattern by inviting participants to bring a photograph of an important woman in their lives. Yohanna will assist in transforming the images into simple line versions which individuals and families will embroider directly onto the participatory textile mural.
Art made on May 18 will be on view at the JAC for the duration of the exhibition Second Time Around through June 15.
WHAT TO BRING:
To participate in Misshaping the Pattern alongside Yohanna, please bring an image of an important woman in your life. The image will be sewn into the artwork so we suggest photocopies or copies (not originals).
Materials will be provided for the sculptural work with Alicia. However, if you have any particularly beautiful bits of discarded, but clean, materials (left over party materials, broken toys, plastic lids, fabric swatches, unwanted clothing, found treasures) you are welcome to bring these to the JAC the day of to incorporate into the sculpture (please note you won’t get these objects back).
