MOCA-Tucson Workshop: Cycle 4

June 6th, 2010

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Thank you all artists – children and parents/guardians — for your participation at our latest workshop: Nest-making.  You filled the MOCA-Tucson museum with creativity and a love.  In this workshop children created nests around and on top of their parents. We watched as artists layered and evolved their nest installations over the course of 40 minutes.  Then children placed themselves in the nest with the parents.   Later, some reversed roles: parents built nests on and around children, completing a cycle.   Your artistry informed our ongoing dialogue about creating “home” and “safe(er) places.”  A nest can be a physical, psychological or imaginary creation.  It is what we make of it, and it is an ongoing, every-changing process.

A few images are below.  You can view and download all the photos from the workshop here. Photos by Renee Bibby (who is famous in Tucson for her photos of multi-heritage families).

- Love,

Natalie Nguyen and Denise Uyehara
Mama/Baby/Dada Project
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Thanks to our participants: Yvonne and Chiara Mery, Stephen, Audrie and Leif Terre, Tanya and Spike Hammond and Sara Rose Blaithwaite, Michael and Molly Guymon, Mitch Goddard and Jaxon and Willa Goddard-Westland, Corey, Iris and Ella Knox, Serena Tang, Andre Newman and Savan, Sula and Rene.

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    The parent-child relationship is one of constant compromise and often a vast imbalance of power. As we try navigate our children throughout their day, it is a constant give and take that creates the shifting road map of our world. In Mama/Baby/Dada we investigate the territories of work and play that parent and child inhabit, creating maps, transcriptions and legends in collaboration with our children. We invite parents and their children to participate in this ongoing series of map-making cycles and view how their work develops over time.
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