Shaking the Table: Community Quilting with Black Hippie Art

Shaking the Table: Community Quilting with Black Hippie Art

Join multi-disciplinary artists,, Qiaira Riley and Yannick Lowery for the final gathering in their reality-TV inspired creative workshop and supper series, Shaking the Table! In collaboration with Black Hippie Art, this event will give participants the oppportunity to create a community quilt featuring images of Black women from popular culture and familiar emphemra. All materials will be provided but partcipants are welcome to bring additonal fabric, thread, and scrap textiles! For supper both meat-eater and vegan options will be available!

About Shaking the Table

Shaking the Table is a series of interdisciplinary workshops and community meals exploring our collective and personal relationships to Black ephemera, popular culture, and reality television through art-making and food. Each event includes an interactive activity and dialogue encouraging participants to theoretically explore themes of identity, family, gender and deviance by analyzing iconic depictions from magazines, television, and film. During our time together we offer meals, inspired by memorable scenes from reality tv that uplift the activity’s theme. We’d hope that each activity will build on the revelations from the previous one, while allowing neighbors to build deeper bonds with one another. This work is supported by Barnes West Everyday Places Partnership at hosted at the Art League (4226 Spruce Street)

About Barnes West Everyday Places Artist Partnerships

Everyday Places Artist Partnerships highlight the intersection of art and community and create spaces where residents can participate in art experiences in their neighborhood. This year, social impact artists will once again partner with “everyday” places in West Philadelphia—including local businesses and community organizations—to create interactive projects that engage with the spaces and their neighbors.

Host or Publisher Qiaira Riley