Telar Terrenal / Earthly Loom
Continuing her current series of fiber works, Tanya will be taking weaving lessons from nature. Using sight, sound, touch, smell, and memory, she will lead collaborative-making sessions with fire, water, air, and earth; working primarily with discarded materials from Haystack's studios and the local area. Telar Terrenal began with Tanya realizing that the Los Angeles River was weaving structures and laboring objects into shapes.
Visiting Artists augment the summer sessions and do not lead studio workshops.
Tanya Aguiñiga uses craft as a fluid medium to generate dialogues about identity, culture, and gender while creating community. Using a femme-centered decolonial approach, she collaborates with other artists/activists to create sculptures, installations, performances, and community-based art for and about migrant/border communities. Aguiñiga is the founder of AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite Sides), an ongoing series of projects that provides a platform for border issues. In 2020, she started AMBOS Ceramics, a trauma-informed ceramics program in Tijuana’s LGBTQ+ Asylum Shelters.