APERTURE OPEN

June 2021 - September 2021

Artists of the community with lived experience of mental health and other challenges will develop skills in photography, silkscreen, Cyanotype printing, and collaborative artmaking, over 8 hands-on virtual sessions, to create a large-scale mixed media artwork, that shares their unique experience of looking and responding to their environment, for exhibition and celebration at Wonder’neath in the Fall of 2021. The practice of opening -- to let in light, to others, and to possibilities -- is a practice that takes trust. This project is intended to offer social and artistic support to encourage artistic exploration and participation for those whose challenges may isolate them. Aperture Open: a Collaborative Exploration of Light and Possibilities recognizes the benefits of reciprocity, welcoming spaces, peer support, and confidence building through hands-on artmaking.