Community Workshop Facilitated by Kendra Yee
Narrative Charm
Sunday November 26, 2023 at 2 - 4 PM
Gardiner Museum
Using air drying clay participants will create their own “narrative charm,” by combining a personal story to a work from the Gardiner’s collection. Each attendee will receive a 3” x 3” (250g) block of clay to form a item that relates to the prompt; what story would you turn into a relic? [Or what story would you place into a museum?]Through building objects of connection, this workshop will explore the ways alternate histories can be translates, acknowledged, and validated. “Narrative Charms,” are smaller objects that are meant to be carried, both by the creator and as a form that holds valuable experiences, documenting histories that deserve to be recognized.
From the Workshop
About the Facilitator: Kendra Yee
Kendra Yee (b. 1995, Tkaronto/ Toronto) is an arts practitioner that seeks to materialize the truths and fictions of memory. Yee pulls tales from; personal stories, lived experience and collective narratives to develop site-specific installations that carve alternative archives. Yee has programmed and exhibited with: Patel Brown (Toronto), Heavy Manners (Los Angeles), The Artists Project (Toronto), Juxtapoz (NYC), The Letter Bet (Montreal), Xpace Cultural Centre (Toronto). Upcoming projects include a solo exhibition at Patel Brown (June 22) and The RBC Emerging Artist Residency Program at The Robert McLaughlin Gallery (Spring 2024).
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EXPLORE KENDRA’S WORK IN THE EXHIBITION ‘MENDING THE MUSEUM’