“What’s In The Bag?”
Community Art Project, 2014
Portland Community College, Cascade Art Gallery, Portland Oregon
Lead Artist: Anne Greenwood w/ Sandy Sampson
Collaborators:
Portland Community College art students Jefferson High School art and English students
Lewis and Clark 2014 Gender Symposium attendees, p:ear homeless and transitional youths,
Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Resource Center (SMYRC) youths, Beach Dual Immersion (Spanish/English) School students, and community Amy Hargrave (Jefferson High School) and Nick Boxwell.
“What’s in the Bag?” - the archive of a yearlong community art project reflecting conversations about identity. Riffing on the 1930’s Sea Island Sugar Company feedsack rag doll series, project participants designed their own doll patterns through processes of writing, drawing, collage, sewing, talking, and listening. The feedsack and its social history becomes the metaphorical container for issues of identity. Participant conversations along with their new feedsack designs, rag dolls, and doll patterns emerged as artifacts of exploration of individual identities. The resulting archive of art displayed in the Cascade Gallery and to be painted at Beach School as a mural reveals various influences on our identities as well as contrasts between identities we embrace and those projected upon us.
Community Art Project, 2014
Portland Community College, Cascade Art Gallery, Portland Oregon
Lead Artist: Anne Greenwood w/ Sandy Sampson
Collaborators:
Portland Community College art students Jefferson High School art and English students
Lewis and Clark 2014 Gender Symposium attendees, p:ear homeless and transitional youths,
Sexual and Gender Minority Youth Resource Center (SMYRC) youths, Beach Dual Immersion (Spanish/English) School students, and community Amy Hargrave (Jefferson High School) and Nick Boxwell.
“What’s in the Bag?” - the archive of a yearlong community art project reflecting conversations about identity. Riffing on the 1930’s Sea Island Sugar Company feedsack rag doll series, project participants designed their own doll patterns through processes of writing, drawing, collage, sewing, talking, and listening. The feedsack and its social history becomes the metaphorical container for issues of identity. Participant conversations along with their new feedsack designs, rag dolls, and doll patterns emerged as artifacts of exploration of individual identities. The resulting archive of art displayed in the Cascade Gallery and to be painted at Beach School as a mural reveals various influences on our identities as well as contrasts between identities we embrace and those projected upon us.