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Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant: A Free Collective Healing Workshop
September 9 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
3-Hour Workshop
Date: Monday, September 9
Time: 10am-1pm
Objective: To create a safe and supportive environment where participants can engage in collective healing through conversation and reflection. By using powerful images depicting historical and contemporary injustices, participants will explore and transform these themes of fear, power, and love through the symbolic act of embroidery. The workshop aims to foster a deep, shared understanding of these issues, with the anonymous recordings of conversations and the finished embroidered works forming part of a larger exhibition that documents and amplifies the collective experience.
Workshop overview: This workshop will guide participants through embroidering and patching images that have holes burnt through them. The images represent various forms of opression and violence. Through these actions, participants can engage in meaningful conversations, share personal stories, and collectively heal from the wounds these opressive images represent. The workshop facilitates deep reflection and connection, empowering participants to find strength and beauty in mending.
Tuition: Free
Materials: All materials will be provided.
Location: Contemporary Craft (5645 Butler St., Pittsburgh, PA 15201)
If you require accessibility accommodations, please let us know by calling 412.261.7003 and we are happy to assist you.
About the Artist
Sarika Goulatia is a visual artist best known for her large-scale sensory sculptures and installations. Goulatia’s work is diverse in theme, material, process and approach; it is united conceptually and tactically in its reflection of an unambiguous idea. Goulatia transforms ordinary objects into compelling works of art that reflect her own determination and fortitude through explorations of various mediums, techniques, and genres. Her works range from sculpted ceramics to cast bronzes and aluminum, from extensively drilled/nailed wood to assemblages using found objects. Each piece is infused with vitality, enthusiasm and an investigational approach.
