Art as Memorial: Collage Workshop

Robin Berson’s Workers’ Memorial Quilts, which inspired this hands-on workshop, honor victims of garment industry disasters that bookended the past century: the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911 and the Tazreen fire and Rana Plaza collapse of 2012 and 2013 in Bangladesh, emphasize the human toll, particularly of marginalized communities, while questioning the progress made in labor rights amid global outsourcing. The quilts will be on display for this program.

Participants of all ages are invited to bring images of people they would like to memorialize. Historical images will also be supplied as encouragement to take on a character and their story and create an abstract representation of the individual using felt and markers, mounted on a foam core square, and also capture memories in writing.

Photo: Robin Berson’s Workers’ Memorial Quilts. Courtesy of LaborArts.

Support provided by Art Bridges.