Historias entrecruzadas Artist Workshop By Natalia Nakazawa

Schedule

Sat Oct 25 2025 at 12:00 pm to 02:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Socrates Sculpture Park | Queens, NY

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This workshop will address crucial questions about the importance of telling our own stories.
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Historias entrecruzadas: Artist Workshop By Natalia Nakazawa

Saturday, October 25, 2025 | TBD

This workshop will address crucial questions about the importance of telling our own stories and resisting static definitions of nations and borders. Through collective map making experiences, recording oral histories, and 3D scanning objects through the Our Stories of Migration app, we will engage in creating spaces of resistance. We will talk with members of CHARAS and pull materials from the archive thinking about what is needed for communities to survive this moment while living under threat of deportation and the dismantling of services and support for immigrants, families, and children.

About Natalia Nakazawa

Natalia Nakazawa (b. 1982, Charlotte, NC) is a Queens-based interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work spans painting, textiles, and social practice. As a child of Latin American (Uruguayan) and Asian (Japanese American, Yonsei) diasporas, she draws on complex cultural legacies to explore identity, migration, and storytelling. Through collaborative, community-driven projects, Nakazawa blurs the boundaries between education, activism, and art, inviting collective participation. Her jacquard textiles incorporate images from open-access museum collections, often highlighting historical moments of cultural exchange. These works serve as tactile archives; places to critically engage with memory.

About the Fellowship

The Socrates Annual Fellowship and exhibition reflects Socrates’ founding commitment to artistic experimentation and excellence, while also nurturing artists’ careers. Artists are selected through an open call and receive financial support, access to Socrates’ outdoor studios and technical support, and inclusion in a Park-wide exhibition. Since 2001, 279 artists have participated with many subsequently receiving further commissions for public art projects. The Socrates Annual Fellowship & Exhibition is one of the Park’s longest running programs and is an important training ground for early career artists to gain experience creating art in the public realm.

This year’s Fellowship will respond to the theme “Up/rooted,” which explores the complexities of uprooting species for long-term sustainability and resilience. The term “uprooted” evokes the tension between dislocation and resilience. “Up” signifies the act of lifting away, while “root” refers to the hidden systems below the ground—anchoring life and absorbing essential nutrients. This duality invites us to reflect on the implications of relocation and adaptation, exploring how when done thoughtfully it can foster new growth and understanding. In what ways can we foster regeneration while acknowledging and mitigating the losses within our ecological and social landscapes? How might we navigate the delicate balance between ecological preservation and community needs to create a more resilient future?

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Socrates Sculpture Park, 32-01 Vernon Boulevard, Queens, United States

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