How can eco-friendly art making help us connect to the environment? In this drop-in workshop, learn about how to make recycled paper using seeds. Artists Yan Cynthia Chen and Jeannette Rodríguez Píneda will lead a creative paper-making activity using seeds, plants, and natural materials. Visitors can choose to participate at any point in the collective papermaking process, or be an active witness during any stage.
Seating and participation in the program is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Yan Cynthia Chen is a New York City–based artist and educator who works primarily in sculpture and installation. Her recognizable yet unidentifiable forms evoke gestures and feelings inside the body. She transforms functional forms to draw analogies between structures of the body and the functions of architecture. Chen holds an MFA from Hunter College and a BFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design. Chen has participated in the Bronx Museum AIM program and the Yale Norfolk Summer Residency. Chen had a solo exhibit at Olympia gallery and participated in the AIM Biennial at the Bronx Museum. She has participated in group shows at Longwood Gallery, Tappeto Volante Gallery, Assembly Room, Westbeth Gallery, and Proto Gallery.
Jeannette Rodríguez Píneda is a queer, Afro-indigenous visual storyteller and education designer whose practice weaves together ethnobotany and plant-based photographic processes. Rodríguez Píneda’s work explores the interplay of reconstructed narratives, memory, permanence, Taíno spirituality, and postcolonial trauma. With a life practice deeply rooted in creativity as ancestral knowledge, they believe in a somatic understanding gained through the process of creation. Their pedagogical praxis connects the spheres of art history, decolonial epistemologies, inner development, museum education, and curriculum design. They have collaborated with such organizations as the Dia Art Foundation, The Museum of Modern Art, Queens Museum, Recess Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, Storm King Arts Center, Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, among many others. Rodríguez Píneda is an active advisory member for the New England Teaching Artist Collective, a steering member for the Youth Organizing Culture Change Fund, and the founder of Movimiento, an initiative to strengthen BiPoc connection to land.
Accessibility
In order to serve visitors with hearing loss, the Crown Creativity Lab includes induction hearing loops for sound amplification. Visitors can turn their hearing aid or cochlear implant to T-coil mode to hear enhanced sound effortlessly. The loop system does not work with hearing aids without telecoil technology.
All-gender restrooms are located on Floors 1, 3W, 5, and T1.
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