happening now

Front Porch Gallery

Second Exhibition

Show 2

Working Through
Aisha Harrison and Annette S. Harrison
July 15, 2018
3-6 PM

Inaugural Exhibition

Exhibition Reception
June 29, 2018
6-9 PM
1916 Washington St SE, Olympia, WA 98501.

Featuring works on paper by Dory Nies and music by Dan Meuse and Elliot Anderson.

Food, wine and house brewed kombucha will be on offer.

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(in)Visible Exhibition at NCECA 2018

Excited to be part of this kick ass exhibition, organized by Amanda Barr, featuring woman identified and non-binary artists and talking about the parts of us that are hidden, other, stigmatized, etc.  Please come and see the show if you’re in Pittsburgh in March and consider getting your hands on some great objects and experiences through our fundraiser.  This will help with some of the costs that fall to us artists as well as to create a publication for the show.

Several of the show’s artist’s will also be presenting on panels during the conference, more info to come.

Donate here.

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Exhibition.

Very excited to share that my work will be included in The American Museum of Ceramic Art’s exhibition We The People: Serving Notice.

I’m thrilled to be exhibiting alongside so many of the artists I admire in our field.

Check out the line up on AMOCA’s website.

access

Access to Abortion is a Right not a Privilege. Porcelain, underglaze, glaze. 17 in. X 13 in. X 3.5 in. 2017

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10,690 Wild Flowers

10,690 Wild Flowers, Satellite Flower Arrangement, Downtown Women’s Center, Portland, OR All flowers were made during discussions centered on Reproductive Justice in OR and culminated in a discussion workshop in collaboration with local organizations Forward Together, Momentum Alliance and Western States Center. Flowers are sold for $1 each and all funds raised go to the Network for Reproductive Options, an abortion fund for Oregon and Idaho. 2017
10,690 Wild Flowers, Satellite Flower Arrangement, Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette North East Health Center, Portland, OR All flowers were made during discussions centered on Reproductive Justice in OR and culminated in a discussion workshop in collaboration with local organizations Forward Together, Momentum Alliance and Western States Center. Flowers are sold for $1 each and all funds raised go to the Network for Reproductive Options, an abortion fund for Oregon and Idaho. 2017
10,690 Wild Flowers, Satellite Flower Arrangement, Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette South East Health Center, Portland, OR All flowers were made during discussions centered on Reproductive Justice in OR and culminated in a discussion workshop in collaboration with local organizations Forward Together, Momentum Alliance and Western States Center. Flowers are sold for $1 each and all funds raised go to the Network for Reproductive Options, an abortion fund for Oregon and Idaho. 2017

Each story of accessing abortion in the U.S. is unique and important.  According to the Guttmacher institute, in 2011 (the most recent year that statistics are available for) 10,690 people accessed abortion services in Oregon.  10,690 Wild Flowers honors each of those people’s experience, as well as each Oregonian who, for myriad reasons was unable to access the healthcare they needed, with a ceramic flower.  While Oregon has many safe guards in place that other states, such as my home state of Florida, do not, many are still unable to receive much needed healthcare because of restrictions due to the Hyde Amendment, barriers because of gender markers, immigration status and more.    Each flower is made during a community discussion/workshop hosted in collaboration with local reproductive justice organizations in which we will discuss the impact of these restrictions and the recently introduced House Bill 2232 or The Reproductive Health Equity Act.  Handmade flower bricks and vases filled with these flowers were placed in the gallery and throughout Portland in reproductive health and justice organization’s offices and local businesses during the exhibition.  The goal is to make 10,690 ceramic flowers, each of which is for sale for $1.  All money raised is donated to the Network for Reproductive Options, an abortion fund for Oregon and Idaho.

Flower Tally:

511

 

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Project Canary

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www.projectcanary.org 

Project Canary was born several months before the election as an effort by craft artists to address the gulf between laws and legislation introduced by politicians (such as the bathroom bills, 20 week abortion bans and immigration “crack downs”) and the injustice created in people’s real lives.
We began collecting stories of people real life experiences on our website www.projectcanary.org and invited craft artists, schools, any one, to create small objects inspired by the stories.  These objects would then be coded with the story number, tagged with directions to find the story online and abandoned for a stranger to find.  The hope is to connect strangers through their stories and create real life context for some of the inhumane laws that our representatives have introduced and in many cases passed.

Project Canary honors the experience above the rhetoric by connecting people to each other through their individual untold stories.

Co-created by Lauren Karle and myself, Project Canary has collaborators all over the nation.

Two Ways You Can Participate:

Share Your Story:
We invite you, as a person living under our current legislation, to share your personal story of injustice.  Stories will be posted anonymously.

Create Objects:
You can create small objects inspired by the collected stories. Craft objects have been formed by human hands for millennia as a vehicle to tell stories and serve a function in society.

In addition you can organize a work day and make objects as a group.

Stamp the objects you make with the story’s number and place them for strangers to find in strategic public places.  Our first drop was during during National Clay Week’s Social Engagement and Community Outreach day on October 14, 2016. Our next official drop will take place during the Inauguration Day, January 20, 2017.  Each object will come with a Project Canary Tag directing the finder to this website, with instructions for entering the story number, so that the finder can read the story that inspired the object. The finder can read other stories in the database and should they choose, they can leave their own story. Lastly, we ask the finder to report their find on social media using the hashtags #projectcanary #projectcanaryfind #sociallyengagedcraftcollective and by tagging us on Facebook and Instagram.

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