The Woods Woman Method: A Summer Art Workshop Series - Workshop 2

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.

June 12th's session will be: Makings of Saraswati: Henna Marks Our Crossings. For this workshop, you are welcome to bring: your own henna cone or mehndi tools if you have a preferred brand or tradition, photographs or fabric scraps to reference for pattern inspiration, a reference image of a pattern you want to work from.

Future Workshops:

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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