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Sustainability Lecture and Workshop with Rachel Breen

March 23, 2024 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm CDT

Rachel Breen, "Speculative Garment Series: Collective Garment #3". A collection of about 20 blouse sleeves from varied prints and plaids, some stripes, checks, and a few prints. Others are of solid colors. Each shirt shows just one sleeve as it hangs in two scallops from near the top of the page.

Workshop & Lecture with Rachel Breen

1-3pm Workshop. 3:30 – 5pm Lecture. Attend one or both!

Join Watermark exhibiting artist and activist Rachel Breen from 1 – 3pm for a workshop focussing on working with ordinary objects that are a part of daily life, then exploring ways to create works that convey these objects’ significance to us. Participants will engage with objects through disassembling, constructing, cutting, arranging, building, gluing, drawing, sewing, mending, decorating, and experimenting.

Following the workshop, from 3:30 – 5pm, Breen will present on the need to create new, more just, sustainable systems within the global garment industry needed to protect the planet and create solidarity with garment workers. There is no charge for this lecture.

Breen’s work is currently on display in the exhibit “Reassemble” through March 23, 2023. In her exhibit she assembles used clothing to gesture towards the reality that consumers in the global north purchase more than necessary and discard vast amounts of clothing, that often wind up in landfills in the global south and not in our own backyard. From 1 to 3pm she will hold a workshop for participants who will explore ways to create art from ordinary objects. Register online, sliding scale at the door.

Read more about her exhibit “Reassemble” →

Details

Date:: March 23, 2024
Time:: 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm CDT
Event Categories:: Education, Past Events, Presentation

Organizer

: Watermark Art Center
Phone: 218-444-7570
Email: watermark@paulbunyan.net
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Venue

: Watermark Art Center
: 505 Bemidji Ave
Bemidji, 56601 United States + Google Map
Phone: 218-444-7570
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