Andean Crafting at EMNY
September 11, 2022 @ 12:00PM — October 2, 2022 @ 3:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) Add to Calendar
Earth Matter's Soil Start Farm : 758 Enright Rd Governors Island New York, NY 10004 Get Directions
Join us for workshops that explore indigenous Andean culture!
Please join us for ANDEAN CRAFTING workshop series:
Sunday Sept 11th 12pm-3pm (pt one pottery workshop)
Sunday Sept 18th 12pm-3pm (pt two pottery workshop)
Sunday Sept 25th 12pm-3pm (palanquin OR face painting workshop TBD)*
Sunday Oct 2nd 12pm-3pm (palanquin OR face painting workshop TBD)*
**can be attended as stand-alone events. individual workshop admission is a donation of $25, and can be made through the donation feature on this page.**
Earth Matter NY' Heritage Beds Project is hosting artist and Peruvian Heritage bed caretaker, Carlos Jiménez Cahua. He is a visual artist and educator who works with indigenous Andean culture.
Jiménez Cahua will lead workshops that explore and incorporate various aspects of Andean culture, with the intention to develop a deeper understanding of this rich, ancient and abiding culture through an experiential and creative learning process.
Over the course of 4 sessions, Jiménez Cahua will teach the students to work in clay, woodworking and face painting. Finished products include a hand-crafted flower pot (eventually planted with Andean seed), a palanquin (used in Incan culture to carry dignitaries; made out of wood), and the students' own painted faces (inspired by those seen on Andean ceramics).
This four part workshop series will be hosted at Earth Matter's Soil Start Farm at the Governors Island Urban Farm. This year, our Heritage Bed project celebrates New Yorkers' interconnectedness through growing and sharing food and customs of the Black Southern, Chinese, Russian Jewish, First Nation, German, Italian, Japanese, Mexican, Korean, Southeast Asian and Peruvian cultures.
The workshops are family friendly and all ages are encouraged to sign up!
**ALL ARE WELCOME, AND SCHOLARSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE!** PLEASE EMAIL carlomos@gmail.com FOR MORE DETAILS!
Exploring Andean Ways is made possible in part with public funds from Creative Learning, a regrant program supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. LMCC serves, connects, and makes space for artists and community.