Building Community

Masked Perspectives:

looking over the shoulder of a woman with long black hair in a jean jacket, cutting out an image from a magazine page. In the background, crafting supplies are spread on the table: a mask shell, pencil, glue, tape, markers, and materials

view through a doorway showing a long table with black, latino, asian, and white community members all working on their masks.

Collaging materials: flowers, leaf skeletons, ribbon

Materials for collaging: pink mesh, red envelopes with gold chinese characters and a rabbit, felt with mexican patterns, fabrics

Through mask making, we collectively consider the ways we are seen and choose to be seen, while revisiting what we know of ourselves, and creating towards the ways that we want to be and show up.

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot livewithout and know we cannot live within.” ― James A. Baldwin

This interactive workshop aims to create a space for self-reflection, creative expression, and meaningful connections. We explore through drawing, collage, stitching, storytelling, and deconstruction.

Instructional signage for a "surface perceptions mask" with gentle colored shapes and an example photo

Overlapping paper masks are collaged with ribbon, sparkling lips, images of food stalls, stitches, leaves, and fabric

African wax print fabrics with vibrant shapes and patterns

A reflection circle with four asian community members seated and talking

*Hosted for the Japanese American Museum of Oregon, Design Justice PDX, and Alder Commons.
Email sophia.austrins@gmail.com to book a workshop!

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