Tortilla Social is an participatory project by artist Salvador Jiménez-Flores that transforms public spaces through the use of printmaking as a tool for self-expression, advocacy, art education, and food as a uniter of community. Tortilla Social es un proyecto interactivo que transformará los espacios públicos a través del uso del grabado como herramienta para la auto expresión, la abogacía, la educación artística y la alimentación como unificador de la comunidad. Check out this amazing video and visit Salvador’s site here!Read more
Posts tagged: #socially engaged craft
Jeni Hansen Gard and “The Common Table”
The Common Table brought together a group of twenty-two women that share the physical space on the Wesleyan College campus. The building walls, division of majors, age, and many other factors can create a barrier that prevent students, faculty, and staff who enter the campus each day from ever encountering each other. This project aimed to encourage a diverse group of students, faculty, and staff to build community through a series of events and a shared meal that took place withinRead more
Project Canary Wrap-Up!
@Project Canary: Thank you to all our collaborators across the nation, @hahaworks, Tally Clay, Life Changers Church, @mac_art_ceramics, @taylorrobenalt, @mary.amalthea, @bigredclit, @pattybilbro, @lourdesceramics, @nationalclayweek and @sociallyengagedcraftcollective to name a few. Project Canary is still going. We are planning drops for Election Day and beyond. 💕💕@nicolegugliottiart and @lauren.karle #NCW #nationalclayweek #projectcanary #tellyourstory #sociallyengagedcraftcollective #collaboration #artandpolitics #socialengagement As a part of #NationalClayWeek, the Socially Engaged Craft Collective launched Project Canary, a collaborative, social, ceramic project that considers the real-life implications of UnitedRead more
Fairy Rings of the Midwest
By Gregory Hatch Fairy Rings of the Mid-West A socially engaged project where I engage with LGBTQA groups to create queer space and markers of queer presence. Toadstools are constructed out of a material that has an industrial history with the community I partner with and are displayed in a public area, with an event that focuses on revitalization for the area. This project aims to give participants a creative voice, connect the past and present, and give a physical, thoughRead more
SECC on Pots in Action (#PIAsociallyengaged )
By Mary Baumstark This week, the Socially Engaged Craft Collective is hosting Pots in Action! Follow along on Instagram @potsinaction or with our hashtag #PIAsociallyengaged Pots in Action is a “crowd sourcing project that collects and features the best photographs of handmade pottery in use by potters and ceramic appreciators all over the world.” Pots in Action was founded by Ayumi Horie, and the Instagram feed and website evolved from her original project. If you check out Ayumi’s website, there’sRead more
Participatory Works of David Medalla
by Summer Zickefoose David Medalla’s repertoire of art forms and methods is vast; he is rightfully considered a pioneer of kinetic, earth, performance, participation and conceptual art. Two of his participatory works, Porcelain Wedding and A Stitch in Time, seem particularly relevant to a contemporary conversation about socially engaged and participatory art practices. Medalla’s participatory artworks followed his better-known series of kinetic and ephemeral Bubble Machines of the 1960’s. In the bubble machine works, the machines created forms thatRead more
The Role of Performance in Socially Engaged Craft (and Art!)
By Mary Baumstark As a collective, one of the first things we asked ourselves was, almost obviously, “what defines socially engaged craft? Or art?” and this was quickly followed up by the most common second question, “does performance count?” As philosophies and practices, social engagement (practice, SEA, whatever you choose to call it) and performance have similar histories in both art and craft discourses. These lineages are, perhaps, most easily accessed through avant-garde histories, although recent craft history and criticismRead more
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