| The
Art
of Resistance Conference was a weekend of workshops, lectures, discussions,
performance, and hands-on art making held at the former Rainier Brewery
in Seattle's less than glorious post-industrial
wasteland just south of the big
new sports stadia and current freeway and lightrail construction projects.
The class I taught--How to Make a Rubylith Silk Screen--was overbooked but
it all worked out in the end because most of the students did not have designs
prepared. The dozen that did (or quickly improvised one) went home with completed
screens ready to propagate their images. Building and stretching a dozen
frames required a lot of prep work on my part, but the hour and half allotted
for the class just wasn't enough time for students to build their own (which
is preferable because one learns by doing). Even so, it was well worth the
effort and I hope the knowledge spreads. |