How can we expand the definition of craft to include artists less visible? From the illicit to the marginal, how can exploring these craft practices help us examine our society on multiple levels? By defining counter as outside the mainstream, we aim to highlight both counter publics making crafts, and general publics making counter crafts. The crafts being generated by these publics will vary from the utilitarian to the destructive, further complicating how we value or undervalue these different “crafters” or their crafts. COUNTER CRAFT
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How can we expand the definition of craft to include artists less visible? From the illicit to the marginal, how can exploring these craft practices help us examine our society on multiple levels? By defining counter as outside the mainstream, we aim to highlight both counter publics making crafts, and general publics making counter crafts. The crafts being generated by these publics will vary from the utilitarian to the destructive, further complicating how we value or undervalue these different “crafters” or their crafts.
COUNTER CRAFT
HEATHER DONAHUE
April 11th 2-4PM
SEED BOMBING WORKSHOP
A brief presentation on guerilla gardening and gardening’s transformative effects -including the effects on individuals.
Participants will be led in creating seed bombs (golf-ball sized mixtures of clay, seeds, and compost), wrapped in biodegradable paper with that they have written/drawn on beforehand. Participants will be able to leave and plant their seed bombs after workshop.
TRAVIS NEEL
April 20, 3-4:30pm
The Silk Road MarketplaceAnd the craft of the Darknet
In this participatory workshop you will learn how to navigate the internet anonymously by using the Tor Project. We will also investigate BitCoins, a digital currency which allows purchases to be made anonymously. Finally we will access the Silk Road Marketplace and browse the illicit crafts offered by crafts people from across the world.
A panel discussion that will ask socially engaged artists to reflect on how they reach out to communities, craft an ask, and otherwise manage to convince collaborators and institutions to realize projects along side them.
Moderator- Jen Delos Reyes
Possible panelists- Harrell Fletcher, Ariana Jacob, and others if Google hangout can be accommodated
Crafting Conversation to Get What You Want: Art and Social Practice and the Art of the Ask
JEN DELOS REYES
April 20, 3-4:30pm
ALYSHA SHAW
April 27, 3-5:00pm
Graffiti Workshop:How to stencil and wheatpaste)
Walking tours of street art in Portland Tuesday and Thursday April 23 and 25- 5pm
Saturday April 27 3-5 workshop- how to wheatpaste/stencil, sharing of photographs from Portland street art walks, discussion of thoughts and feelings on street art.
ZACH GOUGH & ERIN CHARPENTIER
April 30, 3-5:00pmApril 31, 2-4pm
Bike Theft Week
Bike theft Story-telling workshop, Bike Theft site identification, bike maintenance, and How to Steal a Bike.
Families come in all colors, forms, and situations. This workshop would celebrate that. We invite diverse families to create crafts that celebrate our unique families. Especially as mother’s and father’s day approach during what is officially Family Month, people of all ages would create crafts to celebrate their unique family, especially those that may be missing in the greeting card section at the store. We will use a variety of forms including t-shirt design and screenprinting to create statements that celebrate each family’s uniqueness.
SHARITA TOWNE & BETTY MARIN
May 11, 1-3pm
Counter Family Crafts:May is family month!
How do you tell stories, about peoples whose history for the most part has been wiped away? Shani Peters uses a combination of print media, paper cutouts, and miniature movie sets, to engage communities, and retell and refictionize American histories.
Crafting Counter Histories: Looking at the work of Shani Peters and the Art of Counter storytelling
Sharita Towne & visting artist Shani Peters
May 12-22
JUNA ROSALES MULLER
May 17, 3-5pm
Mending PatriotismIn the form of an old-fashioned sewing bee, in which participants sew a quilt made from clothing cast off by migrants crossing Mexico's Sonoran desert towards the U.S. Border. This workshop provides a space for learning and exchange around the issues of border-crossing, human migration, and national identity. Quilts have historically been used to signify safe houses, most notably on the Underground Railroad. IN our modern day how do people seeking refuge identify allies? In what ways can we as individual participate in nation-wide concerns? On display will also be Muller's original quilts made from migrans' discarded clothes.
Nail art is growing fad with a history in working class black neighborhoods with Asian immigrant women currently being the primary workforce behind the artform. What is the history of this craft and how has it become popularized? What is the experience of women who do this craft in the everyday? We will conduct research and interviews to compile this history and invite current nail artists to lead a workshop.
BETTY MARIN &GRACE HWANG
May 23, 6-7:30pm
Nail Craft
BETTY MARIN &PATRICIA VASQUEZ
June 1, 6-8:00pm
Lost Craft
There is a strong artisan and craft tradition not only in this country, but the countries where many immigrants to this country have come from. We would like to use our current connections with the spanish-speaking immigrant community, to seek out artisans who have had to sacrifice their craft as they focus on surviving in a new place. We would like to highlight some artists by inviting them to speak about their craft and if possible, do a workshop, such as traditional weaving from places with rich artisan tradition, like Oaxaca, Mexico or Todos Santos, Guatemala.