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Every person at Creativity Explored has their own unique relationship to food. Some artists use food as their reference for making work. These artworks can include clever and thought out underlying meanings. Materials can be manipulated to look like food.
At Creativity Explored, eating is a communal experience: lunch is eaten together and conversations are had. Food is something that gathers people and there are many special occasions and traditions at Creativity Explored where food does just that.
Different outside artists and organizations come to Creativity Explored and hold workshops sharing a variety of different techniques and mediums. These workshops are a great chance for artists to work collaboratively on new ways of making. Captivating works of art come out of collaboration. Read more about the SAORI weaving workshop below!
Rainbow Pie, Makeya Kaiser, 2016, Cardboard, clay, wire, paint and markers, 16" x16"
Makeya's signature marks are dots and circles. It is something that reoccurs in her work. She connected this material exploration to one of her favorite foods, pie.
Photo by: Carly Terreson
Edita regularly asks, "What did you have for dinner?" She will listen to your answer and then eagerly tell you what she had. A common answer of hers is, "pupusas." She loves to talk about food, especially things her mother makes. She made this cup and pupusa with her mother in mind.
Photo by: Carly Terreson
Cup and Pupusa, Edita Membreno, 2017, Clay and paint, variable size
Paul working on the SAORI loom.
(photo from Creativity Explored Website: https://www.creativityexplored.org/blog/blog/saori-weaving-workshop-at-creativity-explored)
SAORI WEAVING WORKSHOP
SAORI WEAVING WORKSHOP
SAORI Arts NYC is a non profit organization that fosters individual creativity through mindful weaving. They came to San Francisco to facilitate a one week workshop at Creativity Explored this past summer.
Each artist at Creativity Explored contributed to a community banner. This type of weaving embraces imperfections and allows for multiple types of textile materials to be used.
The banner is now at Creativity Explored 2 and hangs from the second floor.
Photos by: Carly Terreson
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