Happening once monthly at 18th Street Arts Center’s Propeller Gallery, artist Jenny Yurshansky will host two simultaneous workshops related to her solo exhibition Rinsing the Bones. Participants will work with the artist to explore how our migration stories offer us paths for understanding our own histories, places of origin, and how that impacts our sense of belonging and identity.

“Unfolded Narratives” is an engaging, all-ages workshop that facilitates the exploration of one’s individual family narrative and encourages shared discussion amongst the participants. This session will focus on the complexity of what it means to think about home, origin, and place, especially in one’s own family history. Yurshansky will guide participants through visualizing, conceptualizing, and crafting their family story. The workshops combine drawing, creating the paper fortune-tellers and quilting previous participants’ scanned drawings. Attendees are invited to quilt together around these social fabrics, adding their voices to the “unfolding narrative” and providing us the opportunity to share and find patterns in one another’s stories and keep these histories alive.

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Organizational Info

Organization or Entity Hosting the Event: 18th Street Arts Center

Is this event: Live/In-Person

Admission: Free

Social Media Handles: @18thstreetarts

Contact Name + Title: Jazmyn Beauchan - Director of Communications

Contact's Email: jbeauchan@18thstreet.org

Contact's Phone: (310) 800-1723