The Artist Ann Hamilton, speaking on the power of art to create spaces to bring people together, asks:
“...where is it that we can gather and kind of be alone together? And, you know, there’s so much, as we all know, us/them. And you know, what are the circumstances for "we," that I can enjoy the pleasure of something I’m seeing here, knowing that I’m also sharing that with a person next to me. And there’s an interesting kind of intimacy with this total stranger that the situation makes possible. And, that can change our whole day.”
Making and the Spaces We Share, Ann Hamilton, On Being Podcast
In light of our current social and political milieu, we as creative producers at DAAP
thought about how to answer Hamilton’s question posed above. Through the Making Together series of Community Art Making Workshops we created deliberate spaces for making together with the intention that they might become sites of inclusive connection.
We also wanted to open up practices of making to the University
community beyond DAAP to give everyone the agency to be
a creative producer.
The workshops were supported by a matching grant from UC’s Office of Equity,
Inclusion and Community Impact and held in conjuction with DAAP Galleries.
We held three workshops throughout the 2017
-
18 Academic Year
: Clay
Meditation, Wh
at Are You Carrying: A Totebag Making Workshop, and Space
Jam: A Zine Making Workshop. The workshops
successfully
brought
together
diverse participation from Cincinnati
at large
,
a
s well as across the University;
enabling people
to experience the power of
making
together.
“...where is it that we can gather and kind of be alone together? And, you know, there’s so much, as we all know, us/them. And you know, what are the circumstances for "we," that I can enjoy the pleasure of something I’m seeing here, knowing that I’m also sharing that with a person next to me. And there’s an interesting kind of intimacy with this total stranger that the situation makes possible. And, that can change our whole day.”
Making and the Spaces We Share, Ann Hamilton, On Being Podcast
In light of our current social and political milieu, we as creative producers at DAAP
thought about how to answer Hamilton’s question posed above. Through the Making Together series of Community Art Making Workshops we created deliberate spaces for making together with the intention that they might become sites of inclusive connection.
We also wanted to open up practices of making to the University
community beyond DAAP to give everyone the agency to be
a creative producer.
The workshops were supported by a matching grant from UC’s Office of Equity,
Inclusion and Community Impact and held in conjuction with DAAP Galleries.
We held three workshops throughout the 2017
-
18 Academic Year
: Clay
Meditation, Wh
at Are You Carrying: A Totebag Making Workshop, and Space
Jam: A Zine Making Workshop. The workshops
successfully
brought
together
diverse participation from Cincinnati
at large
,
a
s well as across the University;
enabling people
to experience the power of
making
together.