Free For All ages!
Saturday, February 15, 2–4 PM
The Typewriter Project utilizes place, time, typewriters and paper-based materials to encourage intergenerational conversation and positive interaction, and the sharing of wisdom to reveal new perspectives, rediscover old skills, and consider the idea that one-to-one communication without a glowing screen is not only possible, it is essential. In this workshop interdisciplinary artist C.K.Itamura will lead participants to type meaningful messages using typewriters and incorporate the messages into mail art and mixed-media miniature handmade accordion books. In 2018, C.K.Itamura began The Typewriter Project as a way to provide an opportunity, outside of ageist silos, for multi-generations of participants to learn from and share knowledge with one another, plant seeds of appreciation for each other, and to grow creative support systems that are needed for human survival.
This drop-in activity is free for all ages. Typewriters and all supplies will be provided. Participants are welcome to bring a typewriter if they have one they would like to use and share during this workshop. This workshop is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Dialogues 2025, on view in the SFArtsEd gallery from February 8 thru March 22.
About the Artist:
C.K.Itamura is a Yonsei, Nikkei interdisciplinary artist based in California. Her conceptual, visual, performance and community engagement art serves to engage intergenerational audiences in the exploration of observation, contemplation and expressive imagination. C.K. is: the founder and publisher of Kanreki Press; the editor of Chottohon magazine; the creator of Collab Arts Lab, a program of Berkeley Commonplace; and a co-founder of Book Arts Roadshow. C.K. is an Artist-in-Residence of San Francisco Unified School District Library Department and San Francisco Arts Education Project. C.K. works with San Francisco Public Library, San Mateo County Libraries, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art and other schools, libraries and museums to create and provide: professional development workshops for educators; hands-on art-making workshops for students; and to make art-making accessible to the general public.
Instagram: @peachfarmstudio
Third Saturday Workshop with C.K. Itamura: The Typewriter Project
Free For All ages!
Saturday, February 15, 2–4 PM
The Typewriter Project utilizes place, time, typewriters and paper-based materials to encourage intergenerational conversation and positive interaction, and the sharing of wisdom to reveal new perspectives, rediscover old skills, and consider the idea that one-to-one communication without a glowing screen is not only possible, it is essential. In this workshop interdisciplinary artist C.K.Itamura will lead participants to type meaningful messages using typewriters and incorporate the messages into mail art and mixed-media miniature handmade accordion books. In 2018, C.K.Itamura began The Typewriter Project as a way to provide an opportunity, outside of ageist silos, for multi-generations of participants to learn from and share knowledge with one another, plant seeds of appreciation for each other, and to grow creative support systems that are needed for human survival.
This drop-in activity is free for all ages. Typewriters and all supplies will be provided. Participants are welcome to bring a typewriter if they have one they would like to use and share during this workshop. This workshop is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Dialogues 2025, on view in the SFArtsEd gallery from February 8 thru March 22.
About the Artist:
C.K.Itamura is a Yonsei, Nikkei interdisciplinary artist based in California. Her conceptual, visual, performance and community engagement art serves to engage intergenerational audiences in the exploration of observation, contemplation and expressive imagination. C.K. is: the founder and publisher of Kanreki Press; the editor of Chottohon magazine; the creator of Collab Arts Lab, a program of Berkeley Commonplace; and a co-founder of Book Arts Roadshow. C.K. is an Artist-in-Residence of San Francisco Unified School District Library Department and San Francisco Arts Education Project. C.K. works with San Francisco Public Library, San Mateo County Libraries, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art and other schools, libraries and museums to create and provide: professional development workshops for educators; hands-on art-making workshops for students; and to make art-making accessible to the general public.
Instagram: @peachfarmstudio