Weaving Workshop with Gloe Talamantes
@ Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (Community Room)
5733 S University Ave Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Wednesday, November 8th, from 6:30PM - 8:30PM
For the past four years, Gloe Talamantes has been using a paper weaving project as a way to calm and explore different designs, patterns and colors but also to explore weaving techniques by Mexican weavers. She learned that many designs and patterns from various cultural backgrounds are similar. This also prepared her to honor the art of weaving and use of a small loom this year.
Two years ago, Gloe used this as an activity as a way to show the interconnectedness between Black and Brown cultures in Chicago’s Back of the Yards and West Englewood neighborhoods. The end product of each participant’s piece informed a mural she just completed in early October in collaboration with Luftwerk’s light installation.
Join us in this workshop where we will explore cultural and personal identity and how much interconnectedness there is between different generations, genders, races, social classes and our stories. While these explorations will be at the forefront, you’ll explore, pattern, color and design through this fun activity.
If you’d like to print a 8.5 x 11 photo of yourself or someone who you think of when it comes to your cultural background, connection or personal identity, please bring it on the day of the workshop.
Free and open to the public! All ages welcome!
This workshop is presented in partnership with Arts and Public Life.
About Gloe
Gloria “Gloe” Talamantes is a Mexican American graffiti artist, writer, educator, and cultural worker from Chicago. With more than 20 years of experience in the arts, Gloe led Chicago’s first all-women graffiti mural with the support of the Hip-Hop collective, Synergy. Her art consists of mural painting, printmaking, photo-documenting, and writing. She has self-funded several murals across the city and is the founder of the Brown Wall Project.
Most recently she co-founded the ONE Lawndale Project alongside a collective of women from South Lawndale (Little Village), who came together to provide mutual aid during the uprisings and pandemic of 2020. Currently, she facilitates free pop-up art workshops in various neighborhoods across Chicago, volunteers providing meals on the South and West Side. Gloria believes that art is a universal language that can be used to learn, grow, and heal.
Check out her work at her site here! See her work in person in the APL/CSRPC Artist-in-Residence exhibition, Black Is The Color of the Cosmos, on view at the Arts Incubator gallery through December 8, 2023.
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