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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks to your incredible hard work, we have finished 60 saris for WRAPture! We are inviting all WRAPture participants and other interested people to gather at the Anacostia Arts Center for a community meeting to plan the sari installation events on April 4, April 14, and May 9. We will meet on April 2 to go over details and to do some sewing together of saris as well. Looking forward to seeing you there! Please register to let us know that you are coming. Thank you!
- The first day of the WRAPture installation. Viewing hours 3-8 pm. During viewing hours, Monica Jahan Bose and WRAPture participants will be continuously on site to speak to visitors.
- From 3-5 pm, Slideshow in Anacostia Arts Center’s Black Box Theatre, featuring the sari workshops in Washington DC and Bangladesh.
- From 5-6 pm, Dedication/opening at We Act Radio. Reception and viewing hours until 8 pm.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: Residents of Anacostia and Katakhali Village helped to fabricate, assemble, and install the project through a series of paid workshops. WRAPture includes a sound installation with songs and music from Katakhali and Anacostia, facilitated by We Act Radio. As part of the project, DC residents learn about climate change and renewable energy and add their own stories to the saris. The project links two riverfront communities in solidarity on the issue of climate change and sea level rise.
INSTALLATION: The temporary project is for the duration of one afternoon/early evening, on three separate dates during Spring 2019, including April 4, April 14, the day of the Anacostia River Festival, and May 9. The buildings to be wrapped are at the corner of Good Hope Road and MLKJR Avenue, specifically 1227 and 1231 Good Hope Road SE (Anacostia Arts Center and the adjacent Anacostia Business Center), and 1918, 1920, and 1922 Martin Luther King, Jr. Ave, SE (the We Act Radio, Check It, and District Culture buildings). The wrapping dates are weather dependent, so stay tuned for rain/snow dates.
This project is funded by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Public Art Building Communities Grant Program.
The project is also supported by our community partners Anacostia Arts Center, We Act Radio, Mayor’s Office on Asian Pacific Islander Affairs, WPFW, and Mom’s Clean Air Force.
Lead Artist: Monica Jahan Bose
Project Manager: Amy Lokoff
Marketing: Karen Baker
Media Contact: Kelly Davidson | kellymavenmedia@gmail.com | 301.300.4011
