2023 Workshop & Community Meal Series: “Hand in Hand”
Linocut Print by Eileen Jimenez
We use our hands when we create art, build functional items, cook meals, and hold our loved ones close. Community artmaking is a way for us to tell our stories and connect; a manifestation of who we are, how we experience the world, and what we hope for the future. This year, Artist as Storyteller will explore how making things by hand is a world-building practice through which we make objects, community, and a sense of the world we live in.
Excited to finally be in person again, each of our events will not only feature in person talks by specific artists, but participants will also be invited to take part in hands-on workshops, where we’ll learn how to make everything from linocut prints and ceramics to playing Taiko drums.
As part of our focus on how handcrafted arts are vital for creating community, and to help us be expansive in terms of what we consider “art,” we’ve also asked our guest artists to select a food that resonates with their work. We’ll be learning about and sharing this food at our events as a way to celebrate how the making and sharing of food serves as a vital artistic practice that nourishes our bodies and spirits and brings us together.