Communal Craft and the Suffrage Movement: Banners for Protest and Public Space

Art as Propaganda Workshop

Artist Hannah Blair will present slides of the beautiful hand-embroidered banners the suffragettes created for their protests and demonstrations. We’ll discuss tactics for making effective banners, and introduce an ongoing banner-making workshop geared toward demonstrations on the streets and in community spaces. Learn to sketch your designs using gouache paint, and lend your brainpower to coming up with powerful messages and images to use in building the social justice movement. Further work sessions will take place prior to the Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights (BACORR) Day of Action for Reproductive Justice on January 23rd, 2010. All levels of experience welcome!

The workshop will take place at New Valencia Hall, 625 Larkin St, Suite 202, San Francisco. The fee is $10-20 sliding scale, materials included.

For more information, please call 415-864-1278 or email baradicalwomen [at] earthlink.net


About the Art as Propaganda Workshop:

Radical Women hosts an ongoing revolutionary workshop series that explores the interconnections between art and activism. Each month we’ll learn a different skill and history of a radical movement, with an opportunity for participants to create art for a specific community action.

http://www.radicalwomen.org

For more information on BACORR, please check out http://www.bacorr.org.