River Workshops
People are invited to participate in hands-on art making with river materials including clean sediment collected in the upper reaches of urban rivers and clay. While the sediment in urban riverbeds has been polluted by industrial activity with dangerous impacts to humans and wildlife, hand work with clean sediment collected upstream of the pollution creates a tactile and contemplative connection with the river. Transforming this sediment into small objects becomes a gesture of giving as well as receiving as we think about healing the river.
Workshops helped build relationships between people and the Green-Duwamish River and the Puyallup River in a variety of different events.
Artist Antonio José García Cano contributed to the creation of the ideas for these workshops.
Workshops were developed in collaboration with City Meditation Crew as part of the Duwamish Revealed- creative celebration of the river- event and at Jack Straw Cultural Center.
Some of the workshops were part of All the Rivers in the World, Tacoma, in which people were invited to work with sediment and to draw and write in response to the following prompt: "Think about rivers: the rivers you know, remember, and are connected to. Where has the water flowed in the places of your childhood and your current home? What is the name of your river? Write it in the language most meaningful to you."
Workshops helped build relationships between people and the Green-Duwamish River and the Puyallup River in a variety of different events.
Artist Antonio José García Cano contributed to the creation of the ideas for these workshops.
Workshops were developed in collaboration with City Meditation Crew as part of the Duwamish Revealed- creative celebration of the river- event and at Jack Straw Cultural Center.
Some of the workshops were part of All the Rivers in the World, Tacoma, in which people were invited to work with sediment and to draw and write in response to the following prompt: "Think about rivers: the rivers you know, remember, and are connected to. Where has the water flowed in the places of your childhood and your current home? What is the name of your river? Write it in the language most meaningful to you."
