Braids & Threads: Closing Day & Performance

To honor the close of “Braids & Threads,” WPA partners with Heurich House and artists Monica Jahan Bose and Autumn Spears for a performance.

To honor International Women's Day and the conclusion of their project with WPA, collaborating artists Monica Jahan Bose and Autumn Spears invite audiences to join them for a closing day performance that highlights their heritage and the fiber skills learned from women elders. The artists will lead a procession from WPA’s Project Space to Heurich House Museum in Dupont Circle, guiding the audience through a ritualized performance featuring garments and wearable art made by Bose and Spears during their residency. They will be joined by 12 participants and audience members are also welcome to take part. Bose and Spears’ procession functions as a solemn protest against racism and the active erasure of the multiple cultures and stories that make up the US. Audience members are encouraged to join the artists after for a closing celebration in the biergarten at Heurich House Museum. WPA’s Project Space will be open especially for this program from 1-5pm.  Please arrive before 3 pm to view the exhibition, because several parts will be dismantled and used as part of the performance. 

Gather at WPA’s Project Space (1350 Connecticut Ave NW) at 3pm. Latecomers should join the performance at Heurich House (1307 New Hampshire Ave NW) or find the performers en route.

Braids & Threads: Closing Performance is presented in partnership with Heurich House Museum.

The Heurich House Museum strives to be a new model of house museum through their dual humanities education and arts service mission: they explore American civic identity & experience through the lens of German immigrant Christian Heurich and his successful DC brewery, and create an equitable path to success for modern local craftspeople.