The Woods Woman Method: A Summer Art Workshop Series - Workshop 5

Join the AARC and Saya Woolfalk Studios for The Woods Woman Method, an art workshop series this summer. The Woods Woman Method is a five-part community art series at the Asian American Resource Center, developed by local teaching artist Kyla Gaganam for artist Saya Woolfalk as part of a City of Austin Art in Public Places commission for a permanent installation at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.

Each session is both an arts workshop, an act of documentation and research. participants learn an art form rooted in AAPI cultural history and its interconnection with our environment and natural resources and use it to reflect on their own ecological memory, heritage, experience, and relationship to Austin's landscape.

The work produced across all five workshops forms a community archive of AAPI lived experience in Austin, which will directly inform Saya Woolfalk's permanent installation, seen by millions of travelers each year. All workshops are free. All core materials are provided at every session. Participants are welcome and encouraged to bring personal materials that carry meaning for them. Below is what participants may want to bring from home. No prior art experience is necessary.

July 11th's session will be: Makings of Ryūjin - Poetry, Lantern Making, and Climate Grief. For this workshop, you are welcome to bring: Your tea-stained paper or any materials from previous workshops you want to incorporate into your lantern design, a personal object or photograph that connects to your relationship with water or the natural world, your own ink or paint markers if you have a preferred medium, any written reflections or notes you have been keeping across the series.