Maker Faire Philadelphia 2024
Wordplay: Poetry Collage with GrioXArts
Home: PA, United States
In honor of National Poetry Month, GrioXArts will provide demonstrations and facilitate activities on how to create poetry collages. Guests will learn about short poetic forms while developing their own unique collage.
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Makers
Kara Mshinda
Kara Mshinda (she/her/hers) is a visual anthropologist based in the Philadelphia-area. She is best known for using collage, print media, and lo-fi photography to develop artworks about identity, place, community, and daily life. Mshinda is a co-founder and collaborator of GrioXArts, an art studio space that focuses on building community via process-based art education at Cherry Street Pier. Mshinda has taught courses and led workshops at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Da Vinci Art Alliance, and at community spaces throughout greater Philadelphia. She is a member of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, an artist-run gallery space.
https://www.karamshinda.com
Duwenavue Sante Johnson
Duwenavue Santé Johnson is a BIPOC artist with a rich heritage spanning both the northern and southern regions of the United States over the past four centuries. She specializes in heraldry, hand-embroidery, mixed media collage, and contemporary art. Johnson’s artistic style has been influenced by her extensive travels and her exposure to spectrums of color, textiles, and
https://www.artxstitch.com/735942a858-contentWhat Inspired You to Make This?
We were inspired to create this project because we are collage artists and wanted a project to coincide with National Poetry Month and Maker Faire 2024. The aim of our project is to raise awareness about how collage art may be used in a variety of contexts like literature.
