Samizdat Sundays and Other Subversions

Join us for Samizdat Sundays—hands‑on textile workshops inspired by the spirit of creative resistance and DIY culture found in samizdat traditions. Each week offers a different project, connecting archival stories of subversion with contemporary making.

We encourage participants to bring an item each week—a T‑shirt, a pair of jeans, or any textile you’re ready to transform, repair, or experiment with.

Each session is free, open to all skill levels, and guided by artists who delight in subversion and play. Come for one or come for all—together we’ll stitch, alter, repair, and imagine new forms of expression.

Schedule:

Sun, Dec 7 | Mail Art: Postcards

Create postcard collages that can be mailed or not. Explore the long tradition of mail as art beginning with Ray Johnson. Postcards can be fabric or multi part pieces. Suggested sizes include five by seven inches or four by six inches. Leave space for an address and stamp.

Sun, Dec 14 | Mail Art: Folding Cards

Make folded mail art. This can be a simple folded card, a collage envelope, or a folded form that fits a standard envelope. Envelopes may be sewn, stapled, pinned, or altered. Consider the experience of opening the work.

Sun, Dec 21 | Mail Art:Push the Limits

Make nonsensical mail art inspired by the idea that anything can be mailed with postage.

Bonus | Mail Art: Letter to the Future or the Past

Do this on your own or with friends. Create a letter to 2026 or to 2025 using collage, fabric, images, words, or objects. Mail it, keep it, bury it, or destroy it.

About the teaching artist

Kate Ingold is an LA-based artist and poet working with the discarded, the damaged, and the worn out. Materials and methods include textiles, collage, photography, video, ceramics, and performative installation. She works in series driven by conceptual concerns and is currently making work in two interwoven projects: Relics for Future Rituals and Damaged Goods/Small Repairs.

RSVPs for this free program do not guarantee admission. Limited seating is available on a first come, first served basis.

An ADA-accessible entrance to the Glorya Kaufman Community Center is available through the garden gate from the parking lot.

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