rich 1.0 Action Network https://actionnetwork.org <link href='https://actionnetwork.org/css/style-embed-v3.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' /><script src='https://actionnetwork.org/widgets/v6/event/artactionresiliencecareforall-day-3-2?format=js&source=widget'></script><div id='can-event-area-artactionresiliencecareforall-day-3-2' style='width: 100%'><!-- this div is the target for our HTML insertion --></div> Alexandra Chang https://actionnetwork.org/users/alexandra-chang-2/profile https://can2-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/events/photos/000/817/730/normal/cwg_logo-01RECTANGLE_copy.jpg This is Day 3 of artists and advocates who are coming together for online conversations, how-to workshops, and on the ground activities! Please check back for details! ArtAction! 5:00 p.m. — Trauma and the Enviro Crisis Panel and Q&A with Artists Mary Ting and Nocturnal Medicine Moderated by Alexandra Chang, Rutgers University-Newark With the world experiencing increased globalized crisis from the current novel coronavirus pandemic to the related Climate and Ecological Crisis, we are experiencing and needing to come to terms with intensified and sustained first and secondary traumas in our every day. Artists Mary Ting and Nocturnal Medicine: Larissa Belcic and Michelle Shofet discuss their range of artistic practices including installation, public engagement, embodied experiences, performance, and sound in addressing the need to acknowledge and work through the our collective trauma and grief in relation to hope for our possible futures. 5:25 p.m. — Artist-led Workshop with Nocturnal Medicine Artists Larissa Belcic and Michelle Shofet of Nocturnal Medicine lead an artist-led experience with participants in relationship to the emotional impacts of our current climate and ecological crises. Image: Mary Ting, Rows of Beaks, Hands, Feet from the Ginling Memorial Series. Cut paper, soot, nails, installation detail. Mary Ting uses visual art, community projects, writing, research and lectures as a means to reflect and comment on cultural history, trauma and the loss of nature. Solo exhibitions include Lambent Foundation, Dean Project, metaphor contemporary art, and Kentler Drawing Space. Ting has received grants and residencies from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Gottlieb Foundation, Pollack Krasner Foundation, Joan Mitchell Center NOLA, and the MacDowell Colony among others. Her research focus on wildlife products and Chinese modern history has been presented at Animals for Asia 2017 Jane Goodall Institute Nepal; UC Davis; The Explorer’s Club, NY and on a 2019 South African lecture tour speaking to conservationists and rangers. Mary teaches in both the art department and the environmental justice program at John Jay College. http://www.maryting.com Nocturnal Medicine is a creative studio dedicated to cultivating emotional connection to climate change and sustainability. Working to create new, regenerative understandings of self, community, and environment, Nocturnal Medicine designs multi-sensory experiences that help people move through the emotional challenges that arise as we encounter the climatic and ecological crises that define our current moment. Founded by Larissa Belcic and Michelle Shofet in 2017, Nocturnal Medicine aims to build a culture that understands that the way we live and relate to each other and our planet impacts our emotional health; the practice aims to support a way of living based in intimacy and accountability. Belcic and Shofet met while earning their Masters degrees in landscape architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. They share extensive experience in art, design, ecology, education, and community engagement. Alexandra Chang is a curator and writer working on EcoArt and climate change. She organizes the Climate Working Group and the EcoArt Salon at Paul Robeson Galleries, bridging Science, Humanities, and the Arts. Chang is Associate Professor of Practice with the Art History program at the Department of Arts, Culture and Media and Interim Associate Director of the Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, and Associate Director of the American Studies Program. She helps organize RU-N’s Eco Working Group and teaches EcoArt and Global Asias and Visual Cultures. She serves as an advisor of the NYC Urban Field Station Artist-in-Residence and as Vice Chair of Communication for the American Alliance of Museums Climate and Environment Network. 5:45 p.m. — Zoom Sew Social with the Auntie Sewing Squad: with Kristina Wong, Gayle Isa, Valerie Soe, Annette Lee, and hosted by Grace Yoo Auntie Sewing Squad (folx sewing masks to protect against Covid-19) The Auntie Sewing Squad is a network of over 300 volunteers, mostly women of color, who are making and distributing free homemade facemasks for front line workers and other vulnerable community members throughout California and the U.S. The group began on March 24, 2020 as a solo effort by Los Angeles-based performance artist Kristina Wong who started making masks in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic and needed support creating masks and increasing awareness that our federal government and healthcare system was not equipped to provide PPE for healthcare workers or individuals. The membership of the group has exploded as has the need in our communities, and the group is evolving as a resource and supportive community more than just a single-source provider of masks. - Video: Short documentary by Valerie Soe - “State of the Sweatshop" — performed by Kristina Wong - Community Care — Kristina Wong and Gayle Isa will speak about organizing efforts and the incorporation of and importance of community care in their efforts. - Sew Social! — Sociologist and public health researcher Grace Yoo will share the impact that the auntie sewing squad has had in their families and communities. The Aunties will also give a tutorial on how to download the pattern and get started cutting and sewing and answer your technical questions on sewing masks. Mask directions and care guidelines are included on the Auntie's Facebook and in the ArtAction/Resilience/CareForAll toolkit for you to sew along. - Private Sector and Creating Communities of Care: Actress Angel Pai and Creative Director of Virgin Orbit Jonathan Lo will talk about their experiences of organizing and participating in efforts in creating much-needed ventilators and ventilator splitters through ground organizing and private company efforts. Angel has been working to organize a hundred artists to be ready to print 3-D printed ventilator splitters for hospitals, and Jonathan has been working with colleagues at Virgin Orbit in their efforts of creating ventilators during this current health crisis. Moderated by Gayle Isa. Jonathan Lo is the Creative Director at Virgin Orbit – the Long Beach, California-based New Space start-up. He is currently pioneering the brand experience for both satellite customers and the greater space community through physical, digital and virtual platforms. He is the founder of Public Assembly, a design practice dedicated to guiding and mentoring mission-driven cultural and social impact organizations through creative storytelling, project planning, and design. Clients include The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Broad Foundation, and NRG Station A. Over the last decade, he has lead design initiatives across a broad range of companies and industries – at agencies including Mirada and 2x4; and at in-house departments including Shop Architects and The Broad Foundation. He is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania. www.publicassembly.org www.virginorbit.com www.virginorbit.com/ventilators 6:45 p.m. Artist-led ArtAction: Balcony/window socially distanced protest at 7:00 p.m. with Andrea Haenggi Calling on the plants as her guides, teachers, mentors and performers, Andrea Haenggi (Brooklyn, NY)’s dance research and eco-social art practice creates a form of theater called Ethnochoreobotanography, which simultaneously explores issues regarding ecology, feminism, power, labor and care. To expand her art-activist approach with spontaneous urban plants, in 2017 she co-founded Environmental Performance Agency (EPA) with artists Catherine Grau, Ellie Irons, and Christopher Kenney. Appropriating the acronym EPA - in response to the ongoing rollback of Federal environmental policy at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the collective’s primary goal is to shift thinking around the terms environment, performance, and agency – using artistic, social, and embodied practices to advocate for the agency of all living performers co-creating our environment. weedychoreography.com and environmentalperformanceagency.com https://actionnetwork.org/events/artactionresiliencecareforall-day-3-2