Enclosure/Disclosure: Exploring Persistent Memories through Sewing and Writing
This workshop explores memories, experiences–even secrets–that persist in moving in and out of focus in our daily lives. Together, we will work with fabric, stitching techniques, language play, and writing exercises to create small, alternative enclosures that have the ability to conceal or reveal the complexities of persistent thoughts. Participants will make individual works and will be invited to contribute to a group installation.
About Instructors: Suzanne Faris & Tobi Jacobi
| Tobi Jacobi is Professor of English at Colorado State University where she serves as the Community Literacy Center director and teaches writing and rhetoric courses. Her scholarship includes an edited collection, Women, Writing, and Prison: Activists, Scholars, and Writers Speak Out, and she is currently co-authoring a book on narrative representations of girls held at the New York State Training School for Girls in the early 20th Century and the possibilities of contemporary narrative repair. She values writing with others and exploring the ways that language, story sharing and the interplay between words and art can inspire new ideas–and push old ones into new spaces. Suzanne Faris is an artist based in Fort Collins, Colorado. She is also a professor and coordinator for the Sculpture Area in the Art & Art History Department at Colorado State University. Through her artwork, Suzanne is interested in creating acts of communication that are based first on intimate personal experience but reach beyond themselves and become part of a larger social and cultural dialogue. Suzanne received an MFA in sculpture from the University of Colorado and a BA in both painting and visual communication design from Purdue University. She has shown her work nationally and internationally. In addition to her individual practice, Suzanne has been actively involved with the Artnauts International Artist Collective since 2003. The Artnauts Collective focuses on issues of social justice and the power of a collective voice as a catalyst for change. |
Cost: $35
RESCHEDULED – DATE TBA
1-4pm
Date
- Oct 05 2024
- Expired!
Time
- 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
More Info
Location
- Museum of Art Fort Collins, Fort Collins, Colorado
Organizer
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Museum of Art Fort Collins
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Phone
(970) 482-2787 -
Email
[email protected] -
Website
moafc.org