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Designing Group Projects
From: Common Threads
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When I am building a project I try to have entry points for all three (head, heart, hand) so that people can enter from whichever is their comfort zone:
• Someone comes into the project because they are interested in the idea of upcycling green waste, and finds the surprise of social connections.
• Someone else might be drawn to learning new hand skills and is suddenly invested in how the work participates in the local ecology.
• Another is purely invested in the social, and the desire to connect with others in their community, but walks away with the thrill of a newly found hand skill and heightened awareness of the natural world.
Contributors
Sharon Kallis
Sharon Kallis is a Vancouver artist who specializes in working with unwanted natural materials. Involving community in connecting traditional hand techniques with invasive species and garden waste, she creates site-specific installations that become ecological interventions. Through her work, Sharon has engaged with groups and studied plants and techniques across North America, as well as in Central America and Europe. Some of her recent projects include leading The Urban Weaver Project and Aberthau: flax=fibre+food. She brings together for collaborative projects fiber artists, park ecologists, First Nations basket weavers, city gardeners and the general community.
