Textravaganza! A Social Practice & Print Exchange Crash Course
Belonging in the Los Angeles Public Library (back installation view), 2022. Appliquéd and printed textiles, paint, each banner 48” x 36.” Photo by Ian Byers-Gamber, courtesy of the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Public Library.
Are you social practice-curious? Design and conduct a quick-turnaround participatory research project engaging the Haystack cohort. You’ll learn how to turn this source material into experimental text-based artworks in papercuts, rubbings, collagraphs, and linoleum relief prints to exchange with research subjects and classmates. Along the way, you’ll engage in fun, experiential community-building exercises—useful facilitation tools for your social practice toolbox. No prior experience in social practice or printmaking is necessary, but interest and/or experience with lettering will be helpful. All levels welcome.
Christine Wong Yap (she/they) is a San Francisco Bay Area-based visual artist and social practitioner. She gathers and amplifies grassroots perspectives on belonging, resilience, and mental wellbeing through drawing, lettering, printmaking, publishing, textiles, and public art. She has developed projects with the California College of the Arts, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, For Freedoms, Times Square Arts, and the Wellcome Trust. Yap received a BFA and an MFA in Printmaking from the California College of the Arts.