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I want to create a weave-a-thon fundraiser, encouraging the kids to start learning this art form through their desire for social activism.
We’ll see where it goes.
From the Uqqurmiut Center for Arts & Crafts Pangnirtung, Nunavut, Canada
In the next couple weeks I will continue to work in the schools and transition into independent summer art programs. I want to integrate the established art culture into my work as much as I can.
Uqqurmiut is the arts centre in Pang, filled with skilled weavers and print-makers. Art from these studios is known around the world, but few youth have knowledge of this site or access to these skilled artisans.
I hope to create a stable connection between the youth and Uqqurmiut to help establish a sustainable arts program. The tapestries and prints are created mostly by elders in the community who were mentored into their art.
I will talk with the director of the centre and the director of the weaving guild in the hopes of creating some sort of intergenerational art mentorship. I want to create a weave-a-thon fundraiser, encouraging the kids to start learning this art form through their desire for social activism.
Kids would raise a dollar for every inch they weave in a given period. We’ll see where it goes.
