Hard Skills for Hard Times — Protest Art: Shaping Our Environment with Siyowin Peters & Aanii Tate

Sunday, April 26, 10AM—1PM
FCCW: 3053 Rosslyn St. LA, CA 90065
Info on our space here
Max participants: 35
Free

In our next edition of Hard Skills for Hard Times, participants will learn quick skills to create public art and public calls to action. All throughout our city we can see how artists have used the built environment to share messages and stories that unify us in community and ground us in combatting colonial structures at large. 

This workshop will introduce participants to stencil making a skill that has been used to share and produce art on a large scale. Public art can shape our environment and can act as reminders of the reality we live in and the community we have. This workshop will offer a maintenance in these skills and provide participants with a means to impact and unify their communities.

We’ll be using x-acto knives to cut our stencils out of acetate and later water-based spray paint to print our stencils and put our new learned skill to practice! Everyone will get to print their stencils on posters to share and take home as well as a collaborative large-scale canvas. We encourage you to bring any fabrics, t-shirts, totes, to repurpose if you’d like as well!

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Aanii Tate (Diné and white, she/her) works across printmaking, mixed media, fiber arts and public programming. Her work challenges settler colonial ways of display and is rooted in themes of land remembrance and sisterhood. She grew up in Portland, Oregon, creating art with her two older sisters and has been learning and creating in LA for the past 4 years. She sees public programming as part of her arts practice and is deeply passionate about arts resource distribution and accessibility.

Siyowin Peters is a Native American and Mexican multi-disciplinary artist and model signed with Wilhelmina models in New York and Los Angeles. Working across stencil, silkscreen, and street art, her practice is deeply rooted in community, identity, and creating work that builds connection and visibility.