RECIPROCITY
With support from Upstate California Creative Corps, MAC is embarking on a creative journey to engage the public in art making facilitated by Artists and Culture Bearers to revitalize the EcoArts Sculpture Walk at Trailside Park!
Next workshop: TBA! Past workshops, below.
Next workshop: TBA! Past workshops, below.
The MAC is honored to have received grant funding from Upstate California Creative Corps and the California Arts Council for RECIPROCITY. MAC has brought 19 artists and culture bearers together to embark on an artmaking journey designed to bring people together in nature as we learn about what it means to be stewards of the land and honor one another’s cultural and personal identity.
Over the course of a year, free public art-making workshops will be held offering variety of opportunities to create from natural and discarded materials, learn about fire mitigation, native and non-native species, the role of pollinators in our environment, the plight of the Hitch, organism habitat, cultural diversity, and using plants to make cordage, as we engage in creative expression and problem solve collaboratively! Oct 7 & 8 Honoring the Chi ~ Hitch
with Pomo Cultural artists Corine Pearce, Luya Rivera, Joe Weber and guest Ron Montez, Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians In a rare opportunity to blend wisdom from the past with current issues, we incorporated traditional bundling, stick bending and cordage making with culture bearers and artists Hear from them about tree and land tending and the plight of the hitch. July 29, 30: We created sculptures of Quail with Corine Pearce and Laura Kennedy using branches trimmed from sprouting oaks to bolster their health. Following their demise in and after the Valley Fire, cut trees are growing resiliently, but sprouting densely, close to the ground. When the bottom is trimmed properly, their density and the fire ladder it creates are greatly reduced, and the trees can provide shade for animals and people once again. |
RECIPROCITY by Samara Zepeda
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From our first workshops with Corine Pearce and Laura Kennedy, July 28 and 29, 2023
RECIPROCITY Artists: Where we have been, and the kind of work we create
Below are a selection of works by some of the artists who will lead co-creation of work on public Engagement Days
Below are a selection of works by some of the artists who will lead co-creation of work on public Engagement Days
Lisa Kaplan, Lead Artist
Corine Pearce, Culture Bearer
Laura Kennedy, Artist
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Alicia Farnsworth, Mosaic Artist
Art by Design - Greg and Jake Clouse
Scott Parady, Ceramic Artist
Basins, wall piece and Bird House wood fired ceramics
Jaymie Hernandez De La Torre, Artist
Cleave, metal and sculpted hand (65" x 14 x 8 ), Out mixed natural materials ( 65" x 24 x 18 )
Terry Church, Artist
Time for Mending, At a Loss for Words, Getting Schooled, discarded and found objects
Layna Joy Rivas, Artist
Sysimetsa, full installation at Burning Man, detail Eclipsopy I, Raven's Woods (central piece of Sysimetsa installed at Trailside Park 2019)
Emily Scheibal, Artist
Pollinator Pole, Kara
Pollinator Pole, Kara
Kilak Malicay, Artist (TEK Illustration)
Red Hand, Shake Head, Old Lady, Digital images
Red Hand, Shake Head, Old Lady, Digital images
This project was made possible through a grant from Upstate California Creative Corps and The California Arts Council.