Making Homelands: Tufting San Lazaro Lifeways is a series of tufted textiles that storymap residents of San Lazaro’s climatic and political migration. The textiles record the ecologies present and changing over time and space, witnessing where residents make home. The series is a visual interview, each rug telling a story with a different resident, alongside a comprehensive map of the resident’s relationship to each other in their current community.

Making Homelands with San Lazaro Mobile Home Park is developed in collaboration with longstanding partner EcoArts Connection. Through these relationships, residents’ life-ways are tufted through climate and migration. This research combines quantitative information in the form of spatial mapping and qualitative information in the form of interviews and cocreation workshops shaped by the physical landscape (through GIS and remote photography) and oral histories of the residents. The textile series tells the stories of San Lazaro Mobile Home Park through many lenses: ecological, familial, cultural, physical, and temporal.

This program covers community workshops where we will work with families to record their quantitative and qualitative information.

• Making Homelands: Tufting San Lazaro Lifeways Workshops

  Additional Info

  Community-wide workshops will have food and materials to support the migration story mapping exercise.

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  Location

  in colorado

  Boulder

  Dates

  Ongoing

  Public or Private

  Private Program (by request only or for a specific audience or group)

  Program Fee

  No charge to attend/participate in activity or program