Threads of Resilience

Facilitated by multidisciplinary artist and poet Gigi Lin, “Threads of Resilience” is a series of intergenerational printmaking workshops for AAPI youth and elders, inspired by CAAAV’s 40-year archive of housing justice and tenant organizing. CAAAV is a 40 year old organization that has empowered Asian communities to fight against policing, street vendor harassment, racist violence, and to fight for a world where youth and elders can grow up with justice and dignity.

A youth leader with CAAAV, Lin works across mixed-media works, printmaking, book arts, and lyrical storytelling to translate memory and diaspora into tactile form. In this workshop, she guides participants in exploring oral histories and campaign materials, helping them connect past struggles to personal experiences. Using accessible techniques like linocut and collagraph, participants will create prints channeling resilience and solidarity. Rooted in a print exchange, each person makes an edition – one to trade, one to keep, and one for a shared “"archive-in-a-box.”“ This co-created living archive will be presented at community assemblies and CAAAV’s anniversary gala, weaving us closer through art, storytelling, and mutual care.

This workshop series takes place over three sessions, and participants are asked to attend most or all of them:

Threads of Resilience
Parent-Child Relationship Association, 947 57th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11219
ARCHIVE TO BLOCK, 05/31 (Sunday, 11:00AM-1:30PM)
PRINT & COLLAGE, 06/28 (Sunday, 11:00AM-1:30PM)
PRINT EXCHANGE CELEBRATION, TBD: early/ mid-July

Limited to 14 participants, it is open to the public with limited capacity and all materials will be provided.

This project is a part of the What Can We Do? Artist Grant program, presented by Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) and is supported by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Special thanks to Council Members Christopher Marte and Sandra Ung. Projects focused on the support of Palestinian creators and their communities are supported by the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice.