People's Banner Workshop with Migiwa Orimo
Monday, January 13, 12:30–2:30pm
Taft Research Center
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The People’s Banner Workshop is an ongoing project facilitated by interdisciplinary artist Migiwa Orimo that provides free visual aids (banners, signs, props) for direct action, protest rallies, picket lines, and other street actions for social justice. While the workshop functions as a mechanism for production, it also provides a space for building comradeship. Participants will learn how to create fabric flags using stencil techniques (both cutting stencils and printing) and about direct actions by grassroots activists in Ohio. No prior art experience required.
Migiwa Orimo primarily works in installation consisting of text, drawing, objects, video and sound that explores the notions of gap, slippage, and “a realm of disjunction.” Using the concept of storage/archive as her framework, Orimo explores the relationship between public memory and private space by examining: how memories are shared and internalized; how they are stored and become stories; and, how memories and history collide. A five-time recipient ('96/'04/'08/'13/'21) of the Ohio Arts Council Individual Artists Fellowship/Individual Creativity Excellence Award for her interdisciplinary art projects, she was awarded residencies at the Headlands Art Center in 2012 and SPACES Gallery's SPACES World Artist Project in 2014. Her work has been shown extensively, including at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; San Bernardino Art Museum, CA; and in Ohio, the Springfield Art Museum, Dayton Art Institute, OSU's Urban Arts Space, Riffe Gallery (Columbus), Oberlin College's Baron Gallery, and Weston Art Gallery (Cincinnati), UNC-Chapel Hill's Allcott Gallery (NC), apexart (NYC).
A Crash Course in Political Poster History and Making with Josh MacPhee
Friday, January 17, 10am–noon
DAAP Printmaking Lab
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Using 11x17 panels each containing a historical political graphic that has seen enduring use in contemporary visual language (for example the Red Wedge, or Posada's skeletons, or the pink triangle as used by ACT UP/Gran Fury), we will collage materials from the history of political graphics and posters to create new posters relevant to issues of concerns on UC's campus.
Josh MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist. He is a founding member of both the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements based in Brooklyn, NY. MacPhee is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now and Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. He has organized the Celebrate People's History poster series since 1998 and has been designing book covers for many publishers for the past decade (AntumbraDesign.org). His most recent book is An Encyclopedia of Political Record Labels (Common Notions, 2019), a compendium of information about political music and radical cultural production.
In-Relation with Seeds with Zayaan Khan
Monday, January 27, 12:30–2:30pm
Taft Research Center
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In this virtual storytelling and seed practice workshop, multidisciplinary artist Zayaan Khan will show how seeds are entrenched in our everyday lives. Sharing her experiences setting up the Seed Bibliotheek in Cape Town, she will teach participants how to germinate seeds; what it means to start and run a community-driven seed library; and how seeds inform fermentation practices, scarification, and pollination. A seed swap will follow (see below for more information).
Zayaan Khan is a storyteller who uses various mediums to share stories of struggle and solutions, particularly within the spaces, nuances, and relationships of land, food, and seed. Her work advances sociopolitical, ecological, and spiritual perspectives. Zayaan operates from a space of care, healing, and intuitive practice, embracing a generative and emergent process as part of her transdisciplinary artistic approach. Through curiosity, research, experimentation, and engagement, her work explores the in-between spaces that shape our collective heritage.
Following Zayaan Khan’s workshop, please join us for a medicinal herb seed swap. Seeds, plotting, growing, and tending are all forms of collective worldbuilding and worldmaking. We invite you to think about the stories that seeds carry, and the ways in which medicinal herbs sustain, nurture and bond us. Bring your leftover seeds, heirloom, community-collected, native or organic seeds, and pick up some seeds for the new year. Herbs are easy to grow in pots and can be used in cooking or dried for tea.