upcoming grant deadline: 05/15/2024
Nanci Hersh
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2010 Art and Change Grant – $2,500
- Neighborhood: Merestone
- Change Partner: The Garage Community and Youth Center
- Discipline: Visual Arts
- Social Change / Intent: Feminism
Nanci will create a collaborative printmaking workshop series with teen mothers from Kennett Square culminating in an exhibition for the First Friday Art Stroll in Kennett Square. Having worked with young mothers in the capacity of teaching, mentoring, and collaborating on murals with them, she intends to empower and encourage these teens and young women by offering them the possibilities that self-expression and connection to others through art has to offer. Using recycled children’s clothing as the print matrix to be inked up and then printed onto paper, these collographic plates and the prints pulled from them, will serve as a vehicle for sharing stories about experiences of responsibility, lost youth, and motherhood. Most importantly, she sees this project as an opportunity to bring together teenage mothers to learn printmaking and to share their stories, to expand how they see themselves individually and collectively as mothers.
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