The Woods Woman Method: A Summer Art Workshop Series - Workshop 1

Join the AARC and Saya Woolfalk Studios for The Woods Woman Method, an art workshop series this summer. The Woods Woman Method is a five-part community art series at the Asian American Resource Center, developed by local teaching artist Kyla Gaganam for artist Saya Woolfalk as part of a City of Austin Art in Public Places commission for a permanent installation at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.

Each session is both an arts workshop, an act of documentation and research. participants learn an art form rooted in AAPI cultural history and its interconnection with our environment and natural resources and use it to reflect on their own ecological memory, heritage, experience, and relationship to Austin's landscape.

The work produced across all five workshops forms a community archive of AAPI lived experience in Austin, which will directly inform Saya Woolfalk's permanent installation, seen by millions of travelers each year. All workshops are free. All core materials are provided at every session. Participants are welcome and encouraged to bring personal materials that carry meaning for them. Below is what participants may want to bring from home. No prior art experience is necessary.

May 23rd's session will be: Makings of Ganga - Tea Staining and Water Mapping. For this workshop, you are welcome to bring: Additional tea ingredients or spices that hold personal or cultural significance to you, extra photographs or images to incorporate into your composition, any drawing tools you prefer to work with.

Future Workshops:

Workshop 2 — Makings of Saraswati: Henna Marks Our Crossings Friday, June 12, 2026 · 2–5 PM

Workshop 3 — Makings of Naga: For Future Generations — A Time Capsule Workshop, Saturday, June 20, 2026 , 12–3 PM

Workshop 4 — Makings of Kodama: Build Paper Doll Garden Spirits Saturday, June 27, 2026, 12–3 PM

Workshop 5 — Makings of Ryūjin: Poetry, Lantern Making, and Climate Grief Saturday, July 11, 2026 · 12–3 PM

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