workshops.

Printmaking as Healing

Workshops with Embarc Students

Awakenings Art, Nov. 17th & Dec. 8th, 2022

We partnered with Embarc Chicago to bring Chicago Public School students to Awakenings to explore what healing means to them through print. Students were asked to think of an object, person, place, or activity that represents something healing in their lives and translate that into an image. Afterwards we had discussions on how the students’ perspectives on healing were shifted compared to the beginning of the workshop.

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Virtual Paper-making Workshop

Awakenings Gallery, March 11th, 2022

Awakenings Programming Coordinator Jackie Valdez in partnership with the Design Museum of Chicago presented a virtual paper-making workshop that promoted healing. Valdez looked back at artworks in Awakenings Permanent Collection made from a paper-making workshop in 2019 and reimagined what paper-making looks like in our current landscape of creating and healing at home.

Participants used objects and supplies found around their home, like a blender and old mail to create paper ready for art making. The intention of the workshop was to explore healing through a creative tactile experience and provide alternative paper making methods accessible from home.