BCCC hosts “Better Together: A Community Lecture”

The Committee on Cultural Affairs at Bucks County Community College presents “Better Together: A Community Lecture” with visiting artist Aram Han Sifuentes at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25.

The talk will take place in the Gallagher Room, in the Rollins Center, on the Newtown Campus, located at 275 Swamp Road. The event is free and open to the public.

Artist and activist Aram Han Sifuentes’s work confronts social and racial injustices, interweaving fiber, social practice, performance, and pedagogy to consider themes of immigration, labor, and protest.

Many of her projects, such as the ongoing Protest Banner Lending Library, aim to make art more accessible to the disenfranchised, especially immigrants of color. Since 2016, Sifuentes has brought communities together to sew protest banners, creating a creative outlet of resistance for those who cannot attend protests for their own safety.

Join Sifuentes for a lecture on their practice’s trajectory, exploring how they make political statements and engage communities through participatory art.

Sifuentes is a fiber and social practice artist who creates participatory projects that center immigrant and disenfranchised communities. Her work often revolves around skill sharing, specifically sewing techniques, to create multiethnic and intergenerational sewing circles, which become a place for empowerment, subversion, and protest.

She has received numerous awards, including a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, 3Arts Award, 3Arts Next Level Award, Map Fund Grant, and Joyce Award. Her project Protest Banner Lending Library was a finalist for the Beazley Design Awards at the Design Museum (London, U.K.) in 2016.

She is currently a professor, adjunct, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a board member of the National Korean American Service & Education Consortium (NAKASEC) fighting for Citizenship for All 11 million undocumented immigrants and adoptees.

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