this is a record of the events and workshops I have facilitated!
These events revolve around creative practice and building community, especially in crafting and engaging with A/PI folks.
This session for clients of A/PI DVRP is part of the series "Finding Your Voice," which focuses on creating spaces where clients can express themselves through various arts and wellness activities.
This session hosted with A/PI DVRP involved crafting our own personal zines (small booklets) exploring healthy relationships, with optional space to share. All art supplies are provided, and masks are required.
In this two-part healing space series hosted with A/PI DVRP: 1) Participants will be guided through a loving-kindness meditation, and will mindfully design creative avatars of themselves and/or a loved one while holding those sensations. 2) The natural world can offer us so much joy and comfort. During today’s workshop, we will visualize an animal companion or a pet, or a garden or plants and flowers where you’d like to visit and cultivate (real and imagined).
This presentation will touch on topics across artistic, material, and cultural practices and scholarship - starting from what assemblage is and its characteristics, to how it’s used by creators to make it their own, and moving on to the connection between art and memory, and how assemblage as a process and a work of art lends itself especially well to expressing the fragmented aspects of memories and histories.
We’ll explore characteristics of the slice-of-life genre, and provide a tutorial and prompts to guide our zine-making together. Co-hosted with Avantika S.