Join visiting artist Siona Benjamin for a hands-on workshop that explores identity. Siona will start off the workshop by telling participants the story of how she became blue and also about growing Jewish in India. This will be accompanied with a short PowerPoint presentation that includes pictures of different colored gods in India and also the different colored Taras in Buddhism (Green Tara, Red Tara, etc.). Participants will then be asked to think about what color they see themselves and will be encouraged to create a self-portrait in any color skin they see themselves in and to tell a story about themselves in this role. The final step is to create a mask in that same skin color and wear it to become the character they have created.
Class/Workshop
LUAG Main Gallery, Zoellner Arts Center
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