Interdisciplinary artist Beca Blake will make a performative art statement about intersectional identity in the post-pandemic era from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday, June 29, at The Gallery @ AIFF, 389 Main St., Ashland.
Blake will be assembling, by hand and machine sewing, new textile art in the street front window via a mock studio process to finish Origin: Intersectional, an identity art garment that Blake began fabricating in May 2024.
The garment is comprised of a compilation of references to postcolonial aesthetics on issues of identity, authority, freedom, and rights.
This ultra-contemporary art practice functions as a spark to ignite critical thinking through creative engagement, dialogue, and cultural activation in the post-settler social constructs of rural Southern Oregon.
