Updates on artist progress

D. Allen: developing a site-specific textile artwork. By gathering natural dye materials from the gardens, incorporating salvaged tiles and other items from the original structure, and braiding place-based research with lyrical imagination, they hope to honor the site’s history while making space for what’s to come. The textile will be on display in one of the main communal spaces of the building during the event, and afterwards will enter the CFPA’s permanent collection. During the event, they will activate the installation with performance/community engagement.

Kerry Parker: creating a new performance piece inspired by conversations with former nuns who lived in the building, and the idea of sacraments. There are seven sacraments in the Catholic church. A sacrament is like a threshold. Once the person is on the other side of it they are forever changed. Collaborators include dancers Arimee Gambill and Alejandra Iannone.

Cooper, Melvin, and Young: planning to create a series of tiny escapes: presented as cajas, the world's tiniest theaters, they honor the past, present, and future of the world we inhabit. With tiny puppets and big ideas, performers will take up interstitial space and invite audience inside the worlds they create. Brainstorming 3-5 boxes, each with a world inside. Plan is to perform for 90 minutes during the event, during which audiences would approach us. Themes include -monarchs/ milkweed/transformation-doors into ourselves -the stories of this neighborhood, these buildings, through the eyes of the barber down the street