Events
Behavior, Energy, and Climate Change Conference, Washington DC @ Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill
October 9 panel Powerful Public Engagement through Art
Moderator: Kirsi Jansa, documentary filmmaker of Sustainability Pioneers, lead organizer of the Creatives for Climate collaborative, affiliated with CMU The Institute for Green Sciences
Panelists: • Arlene Birt, visual and public artist at Background Stories, associate professor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design
• Monica Jahan Bose – artist and environmental activist, Storytelling with Saris
• Rachel Guardiola, Hamiltonian Fellow at the Hamiltonian Gallery in DC – interdisciplinary artist and naturalist
• Aaluk Edwardson – Iñupiaq writer, performing artist and teacher, affiliated with Iḷisaġvik College and the University of Alaska Fairbanks
We are so excited to launch WRAPTURE, a public art project supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which is supported by the NEA. The public launch event is on November 13 @ 6 pm at the Anacostia Arts Center. We will be making saris with the community for several months and then sari-wrapping five Anacostia buildings in the spring. Stay tuned and join us on November 13! The project team includes Monica Jahan Bose, Amy Lokoff, Karen Baker, Camille Kashaka, Kymone Tecumseh Freeman and our partners include Anacostia Arts Center, We Act Radio, and Calvary Women’s Services. We are grateful to have this opportunity from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities to create a temporary public art installation with DC residents.
Get paid to make art and learn about climate change!
Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose is launching a new temporary public art project and needs your help to create it! This November, Monica and her team are starting work on WRAPture, a public art installation that will wrap 5 buildings in Historic Anacostia on April 4, April 14, and May 9. Over the next 6 months Monica will be collaborating with community members to create these saris.
Monica seeks paid assistants* to sign up for the workshops as well as student interns who will receive community service credit. Participants will learn woodblock printing, create artwork that will be displayed, and discuss and learn about the effects of climate change.
*Spots are LIMITED. We will be working on 2 saris per workshop and only have spots for 12 people each time. RSVP to confirm your participation. Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com if you need to release your reservation. THIS IS CURRENTLY SOLD OUT.
This project is made possible by a generous grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts. The project is also supported by our community partners Anacostia Arts Center and We Act Radio.
Lead Artist: Monica Jahan Bose
Project Manager: Amy Lokoff
Marketing and outreach strategy: Karen Baker, 7Concepts
RISING UP is a collective response to climate change, using saris from Bangladesh, wind, sand, water, and materials found in Miami Beach. Bose collaborates with women from Miami and her ancestral island village in Bangladesh to create a transborder link between coastal peoples. Women’s leadership is key to addressing climate change and reducing our use of fossil fuels. A massive sea colored sari with handwritten climate pledges will move from the fair to the rising sea. RISING UP will include singing, writing, movement, and references to women’s leadership in art and governance.
The performance is part of STORYTELLING WITH SARIS, a collaborative art and advocacy project highlighting gender and climate change. People of all ages and genders and invited to join, but the art action will be lead by women.
One Billion Rising – Miami will be joining and co-sponsoring the performance.
Lead artist: Monica Jahan Bose
Participants: Marya Meyer, Kathryn Villano, Diane Adkins, Leah Stoddard, Meredith Mia, Juanita-Marie Franklin, Farhana Akhter, and more.
After the performance, join us at Superfine! for a panel discussion on art and climate change at 5 pm, followed by a screening of short performance art films by Monica Jahan Bose at 6 pm.
Image: Floating/Drowning, 2016, at Superfine! and Satellite Art Fairs, photo credit: Ben Droz, copyright 2016 Monica Jahan Bose, all rights reserved
Get paid to make art and learn about climate change!
Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose is launching a new temporary public art project and needs your help to create it! This November, Monica and her team are starting work on WRAPture, a public art installation that will wrap 5 buildings in Historic Anacostia on April 4, April 14, and May 9. Over the next 6 months Monica will be collaborating with community members to create these saris.
Monica seeks paid assistants* to sign up for the workshops as well as student interns who will receive community service credit. Participants will learn woodblock printing, create artwork that will be displayed, and discuss and learn about the effects of climate change.
*Spots are LIMITED. We will be working on 2 saris per workshop and only have spots for 12 people each time. RSVP to confirm your participation. Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com if you need to release your reservation. This project is made possible by a generous grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts. The project is also supported by our community partners Anacostia Arts Center and We Act Radio.
Lead Artist: Monica Jahan Bose
Project Manager: Amy Lokoff
Marketing and outreach strategy: Karen Baker, 7Concepts
Get paid to make art and learn about climate change!
Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose is launching a new temporary public art project and needs your help to create it! This November, Monica and her team are starting work on WRAPture, a public art installation that will wrap 5 buildings in Historic Anacostia on April 4, April 14, and May 9. Over the next 6 months Monica will be collaborating with community members to create these saris.
Monica seeks paid assistants* to sign up for the workshops as well as student interns who will receive community service credit. Participants will learn woodblock printing, create artwork that will be displayed, and discuss and learn about the effects of climate change.
*Spots are LIMITED. We will be working on 2 saris per workshop and only have spots for 12 people each time. RSVP to confirm your participation. Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com if you need to release your reservation or have any questions.
This project is made possible by a generous grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts. The project is also supported by our community partners Anacostia Arts Center and We Act Radio.
Lead Artist: Monica Jahan Bose
Project Manager: Amy Lokoff
Marketing and outreach strategy: Karen Baker, 7Concepts
Please come make art and learn about climate change! This is a special workshop during the shutdown with priority for federal workers. It is in Adams Morgan at the new community center in the Line Hotel (enter to the right of the main hotel entrance — do not go up the stairs, instead follow pathway down to community center).
Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose is launching a new temporary public art display and needs your help to create it! Monica and her team are working on WRAPture, a public art installation that will wrap 5 buildings in Historic Anacostia on April 4, April 14, and May 9. Monica is collaborating with community members to create these saris.
Monica seeks paid assistants* (over age 14) to sign up for the workshops. Participants will learn woodblock printing, create artwork that will be displayed, and discuss and learn about the effects of climate change. All ages and genders welcome. All spaces and accessible by wheelchair/walker. We will provide sign language interpreters and other interpreters whenever possible.
*Spots are LIMITED. We will be working on 2 saris per workshop and only have spots for 12-15 people each time. Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com if you need to release your reservation. Please must arrive on time and fully participate.
Lead Artist: Monica Jahan Bose
Project Manager: Amy Lokoff
Marketing and outreach strategy: Karen Baker.
Please come make art and learn about climate change! This is a special workshop in Adams Morgan at the new community center in the Line Hotel (enter to the right of the main hotel entrance).
Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose is launching a new temporary public art display and needs your help to create it! Monica and her team are working on WRAPture, a public art installation that will wrap 5 buildings in Historic Anacostia on April 4, April 14, and May 9. Monica is collaborating with community members to create these saris.
Monica seeks paid assistants* (over age 14) to sign up for the workshops. Participants will learn woodblock printing, create artwork that will be displayed, and discuss and learn about the effects of climate change. All ages and genders welcome. All spaces and accessible by wheelchair/walker. We will provide sign language interpreters and other interpreters whenever possible.
*Spots are LIMITED. We will be working on 2 saris per workshop and only have spots for 12-15 people each time. Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com if you need to release your reservation. Please must arrive on time and fully participate.
Lead Artist: Monica Jahan Bose
Project Manager: Amy Lokoff
Marketing and outreach strategy: Karen Baker.
Get paid to make art and learn about climate change!
Bangladeshi-American artist and climate activist Monica Jahan Bose is launching a new temporary public art display and needs your help to create it! Monica and her team are working on WRAPture, a public art installation that will wrap 5 buildings in Historic Anacostia on April 4, April 14, and May 9. Monica is collaborating with community members to create these saris.
Monica seeks paid assistants* (over age 14) to sign up for the workshops. Participants will learn woodblock printing, create artwork that will be displayed, and discuss and learn about the effects of climate change. All ages and genders welcome. All spaces and accessible by wheelchair/walker. We will provide sign language interpreters and other interpreters whenever possible.
*Spots are LIMITED. We will be working on 2 saris per workshop and only have spots for 12-15 people each time. Please email storytellingwithsaris@gmail.com if you need to release your reservation. You must arrive on time and fully participate to receive payment.
This project is made possible by a generous grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts. The project is also supported by our community partners Anacostia Arts Center and We Act Radio.
Lead Artist: Monica Jahan Bose
Project Manager: Amy Lokoff
Marketing and outreach strategy: Karen Baker.
We will be in Bangladesh for a series of workshops with the women of the Katakhali cooperative on sari art and climate resilience.
