Screen Printing Workshop
All My Relations Art
Placement #2: All My Relation Arts (AMRA), Screen Printing workshops with the community for the upcoming Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples March.
3rd Location: MN Indians Women’s Resource Center, February 13th 9am-9pm
Myself, local artists, screen printers, community volunteers and Anishinabe Academy staff all met at MN Indians Women’s Resource Center at 9am. We started setting up shop in the gym and began printing the rest of the shirts and bandanas for the march that would be the following day. We printed around 300 bandanas and I honestly lost count of how many shirts we went though! It was nice to have that time to print before the public event at 5pm-8pm and get to know everyone before we really start to get busy! Around 4pm people started to show up for the event, at this point we were still cleaning up and stacking all the dry shirts! Since we still had an hour till the event started and we didn’t want to send them off, we asked them if they’d like to help volunteer, have some snacks and get to know them a bit too! It was great to see community be excited about what we were doing to show up an hour early!
Once 5pm rolled around we began an opening ceremony following a community feast. Some ate and some got started on art making! We had the option to screen print on shirts and posters or make their own banner with paint or collage. Unicorn Riot came and documented this event for the 2nd year in a row and that was great to see the word being spread more about Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW). It was touching not only to see my identified community to come together but to see more diversity and solidarity within the volunteers and the people who came to this event!