Artmaking Workshop: Weaving Sites of Palestinian Solidarity

Join us for an evening of decolonial feminist futurity and artmaking with Daarna and Palestinian Feminist Collective. Together, we unpack the histories of displacement, methods of colonialism, and strategies for a decolonial feminist future underpinning Daarna and Palestinian Feminist Collective’s continued focus on liberation. We then create patchwork panel designs that will contribute to The People’s Solidarity Tent– a creative endeavor that literally weaves participants' contributions together as a collective action.

The People’s Solidarity Tent is an interactive traveling art installation project by Daarna, embodying the dimensions of the most common refugee shelter in the world. The tent will be on view in the gallery in the context of Rocío García’s exhibition, The Object of Power is Power. Building solidarity one interaction at a time, The People’s Solidarity Tent is a visual and physical metaphor for the labor, kinship, and love needed to bring about collective liberation. All materials will be provided, no experience necessary.

About Palestinian Feminist Collective
The Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC) is a body of Palestinian/Arab feminists primarily located on Turtle Island (the unceded lands known as North America). We are an intergenerational collective of activists, organizers, practitioners, creators, thinkers, artists, scholars, healers, water and land protectors, life-givers, and life-sustainers. We are committed to achieving Palestinian social and political liberation by confronting systemic gendered, sexual, and colonial violence, oppression, and dispossession.

About Daarna
Daarna is  a collective of community organizers, architects, and artists committed to anti-displacement and supporting refugees through design practices. We harness the power between analysis and direct action to divest from capitalistic systems that perpetuate inequity and forced uprooting. Our work exposes apartheid architecture and colonial planning, connecting local and global struggles. Through storytelling and design, we reclaim our collective memory and invite communities to dream, design, and build liberatory homes and villages.

Accessibility
Chairs with backs will be available. Located at 26 Wooster Street, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art strives to provide a welcoming environment to all visitors. Five external steps lead to our entrance doors: a wheelchair lift is available. All galleries are wheelchair-accessible, and a single-occupancy accessible restroom is located behind the visitor services desk: all restrooms are gender-neutral. Large print didactics are available.

For questions or access requests, please email info@leslielohman.org with 1 week advance of your visit.