ReHecho Artist Workshop: Creative Reuse as a tool for Social Change

The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center Inc. (The Clemente) is a Puerto Rican/Latino cultural institution that has demonstrated a broad-minded cultural vision and a collaborative philosophy. While The Clemente’s mission is focused on the cultivation, presentation, and preservation of Puerto Rican and Latino culture, it is equally determined to operate in a multi-cultural and inclusive manner, housing and promoting artists and performance events that fully reflect the cultural diversity of the Lower East Side and the city as a whole.

The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural &Education Center

An open atelier and intergenerational perspective on environmental issues, our relation to waste and its possible solutions.

107 Suffolk St

ReHecho/ReMadeIn this month-long workshop, you will make an object of art by learning or rediscovering different skills using found materials. This all will culminate in an up-cycled art pop-up exhibition dedicated to thoughts and reflections on environmental issues and resilience. <ul><li>When: Throughout the month of November 2022 </li></ul><ul><ul><li>Workshops: Wednesdays through Fridays, 3PM to 6PM </li><li>Open Studio: Saturdays,1-6PM </li></ul><li>Where: Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center (107 Suffolk St., Lower East Side, NYC) fourth floor Room: 406 (note that there are no elevators in the building at the moment)</li><li>Skills: Textiles, Costumes, Drawing, Sculpture, Photography, Mix Media &amp; Collage </li><li>Lead Artist and Curator: Daniela Fabrizi and Patricio O’Hea </li><li>Additional Workshops will be scheduled with artists and creatives including Lulu Verona and Mujeres en Movimiento</li><li>Contact: dani.fabrizi@gmail.com for more information </li></ul>WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:The curriculum will evolve in phases, in a process of technique discovery of new and/or reclaimed knowledge, to focus on the one that feels right for each participant’s final piece.<ul><li>1st Phase: Talks and Presentations: Upcycling, Sustainability, Environment. Here they will share their stories, encompassing memories, cultural identities, a historical context where they grew up, and how all of this has to do with their perspective and relation to waste. </li><li>2nd Phase: Creative Reuse. Here they will share the &quot;upcycling knowledge&quot; they have already, what techniques they are interested to learn or revive while ReHecho investigates what &quot;upcycling&quot; memory is left in this public, how sacred or not is for them, and how different the experience is from one person to the other (learning from their different realities and backgrounds). </li><li>3rd Phase: Drawing and Collage. This section will focus on the first ideas for the final piece considering it could also be the technique of preference for their artwork. </li><li>4th Phase: Textiles and Costume Making Techniques. in this section they will repurpose old clothes and/or fabric diving into the concept of recycling/reusing/repurposing and possibly making their own costume. </li><li>5th Phase: Sculpture and Mixed Media. Using different materials and tools the idea is to be able to transform an object or create from scratch out of recycled materials. </li><li>6th Phase: Artistic photography. Costumes and some other pieces will be documented artistically as another way of exhibiting their piece. </li><li>Final Phase: All these phases will lead into the outcome of the residence. In this last stage the group all together and invited artists will be part of the creation of a pop-up exhibition where all the final artwork will be presented.</li></ul>-﻿---ABOUT: ReHecho or The ReMade Project is an itinerant community initiative based on conversations about resilience, environmental consciousness and its possible solutions through creative reuse and textile techniques. It has an educational and social focus while generating conversations among the participants’ individual experiences in relation to waste. This 2nd edition of ReHecho / ReMade will be dedicated to the knowledge of Seniors in our communities, and will consist of a month-long collaborative workshop culminating with an exhibition dedicated to upcycled art through different manifestations. ReHecho is not only focused on pedagogical approaches of reuse and repurpose, but is rather impulsed by deconstructing the &quot;concept&quot; of upcycling into a natural action of resilience, honoring its real definition and origin in a world run by trends. Moved by the pertinent context of today&#x27;s environmental issues, climate dislocation from our motherlands, the open atelier aims to raise an experiential awareness on how to generate less waste in our everyday life while recapturing Caribbean and Latin American legacies of creative endurance and making due with what is available. Ultimately, what makes ReHecho special is the ambiance created around it, it is a social multigenerational gathering rather than just a workshop, serving as the soil where new conversations will grow between the mentors, participants, and spectators.

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