1:00 – 1:45pm // Workshop in the Event Room – Second Floor
2:00pm // Performance of The Chinese Lady on the Hertz Stage

Join interdisciplinary artists and educators Gyun Hur and Irisdelia Garcia in a visual workshop on family history, intergenerational stories, and community connection. Participants are invited to bring their families to engage with personal family archives of photos and draw new memories in tandem, prompted by conversations around lineage and relationship. This workshop encourages children and their families to shape familial histories and care for the importance of memorials through an act of remembering and honoring.

RSVP and submit a family photo that honors your family history. For example, it can be a photo of your parents or grandparents when they were children. We will print out your submitted photos for the workshop. Crafting materials will be provided.

This workshop is open to and encouraged that all ages attend. RSVP required. Maximum attendance of 20.

Attendees, please arrive 10 minutes early to ensure a timely start for the workshop.

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BIOS

Gyun Hur is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and an educator whose biographical context as a first-generation immigrant largely informs her creative practice and pedagogical approach. Born in South Korea, she moved to Atlanta, at the age of 13 and studied painting and sculpture at the University of Georgia and Savannah College of Art and Design.  In Hur’s practice, she is deeply engaged in generating poetics of beauty and grief in visual and emotional spaces she creates. Through iterations of installations, performances, drawings, and writings, Hur traverses between autobiographical abstraction and figurative storytelling, asking what holds us together; stories, yearnings, rituals and spirituality.

Irisdelia Garcia is an interdisciplinary Nuyorican artist and educator exploring the body as an archive, theater as ritual, and intergenerational storytelling. Her work explores hauntings, grief, and culturally specific modes of corporeal histories. Garcia has worked in residency with La Pocha Nostra, Ping Chong and Company, EMERGENYC, The Wax Factory, GALLIM, and the Maggee Allesee National Center for Choreography. Her work and collaborations have been shown at The New School, Amherst College, The BRIC, the wild project, HEREArts, EnGarde Arts, and The Tank. Garcia holds a BA in English (summa) from Amherst College with a Digital Humanities concentration and a Multicultural Theater Practice Certificate. She holds an MFA in Contemporary Theatre and Performance at The New School minoring in Creative Community Development.  Garcia’s teaching is core to her creative practice, currently teaching with Ping Chong and Company, Theater Development Fund, and Rybin Talent. She has taught previously with the Dia Art Foundation, OSSProject, Children’s Museum of Manhattan, and Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education.

ABOUT

This workshop is a part of Gyun Hur’s current project Our mothers, our water, our peace and partially funded by Parsons School of Design, The New School.

Our mothers, our water, our peace reflects upon Atlanta Asian communities’ resilience and love. In response to Asian hate crimes that escalated during the pandemic followed by the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings, Gyun Hur illuminates the irreversible changes that have taken place in the identities and stories Asian Americans tell themselves and share with their children. 

In 2024, a constellation of glass vessels will be housed amongst the Atlanta Asian communities. This array of installations will act as poetic nodes that map gestures of grief in both public and private spaces. These handblown, tear-shaped vessels will hold local creek and river water from the Atlanta region and seed conversations around intergenerational work, healing, and community engagement through a series of workshops and gatherings. 

In 2025, Hur will gather these glass vessels to create a large-scale installation that will open to the public in the spring in the spirit of remembrance, lamentation, and celebration. 

Our mothers, our water, our peace is her second project with Flux Projects after Spring Hiatus in 2011. In both works, Hur invites the audience to participate in this labor of unraveling our layered, perplexing stories with grace and time.