Artist Workshop: Family Storytelling
\nSunday, August 17, 2025 | 12 – 2pm<\/p>\n
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What wisdom would you share if you\u2019d lived for 10,000 years?<\/p>\n
Join us for a storytelling journey that begins with Urashima Taro, an ancient Japanese tale from the 8th century about a fisherman who saves a magical turtle \u2014 and is taken to a mystical undersea palace to meet a princess who will change his life forever.<\/p>\n
Guided by artist and 2025 Socrates Fellow Natalia Nakazawa, families will imagine themselves as minogame \u2014 mythical sea spirits who\u2019ve witnessed centuries of human experience \u2014 and explore:<\/p>\n
\u2728 Lessons passed down from your ancestors
\n\u2728 How these stories shape who you are today
\n\u2728 Your vision for a sustainable, resilient future
\n\u2728 The legacies you want to pass on<\/p>\n
After sharing stories across generations, we\u2019ll bring them to life through collagraph printing on mulberry paper \u2014 weaving tactile patterns and ancestral memory into prints you can take home.<\/p>\n
Natalia\u2019s work, rooted in her Latin American and Japanese American heritage, blends painting, textiles, and social practice. Her projects invite collective participation and offer spaces to critically engage with history, migration, and identity.<\/p>\n
This workshop is part of the Socrates Annual Fellowship, responding to our 2025 theme Up\/rooted \u2014 a reflection on the delicate balance between relocation and regeneration, and how uprooting can foster new growth when done with care.<\/p>\n
About Natalia Nakazawa
\nNatalia Nakazawa (b. 1982, Charlotte, NC) is a Queens-based interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work spans painting, textiles, and social practice. As a child of Latin American (Uruguayan) and Asian (Japanese American, Yonsei) diasporas, she draws on complex cultural legacies to explore identity, migration, and storytelling. Through collaborative, community-driven projects, Nakazawa blurs the boundaries between education, activism, and art, inviting collective participation. Her jacquard textiles incorporate images from open-access museum collections, often highlighting historical moments of cultural exchange. These works serve as tactile archives; places to critically engage with memory.<\/p>\n
About the Fellowship
\nThe Socrates Annual Fellowship and exhibition reflects Socrates\u2019 founding commitment to artistic experimentation and excellence, while also nurturing artists\u2019 careers. Artists are selected through an open call and receive financial support, access to Socrates\u2019 outdoor studios and technical support, and inclusion in a Park-wide exhibition. Since 2001, 279 artists have participated with many subsequently receiving further commissions for public art projects. The Socrates Annual Fellowship & Exhibition is one of the Park\u2019s longest running programs and is an important training ground for early career artists to gain experience creating art in the public realm.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s Fellowship will respond to the theme \u201cUp\/rooted,\u201d which explores the complexities of uprooting species for long-term sustainability and resilience. The term \u201cuprooted\u201d evokes the tension between dislocation and resilience. \u201cUp\u201d signifies the act of lifting away, while \u201croot\u201d refers to the hidden systems below the ground\u2014anchoring life and absorbing essential nutrients. This duality invites us to reflect on the implications of relocation and adaptation, exploring how when done thoughtfully it can foster new growth and understanding. In what ways can we foster regeneration while acknowledging and mitigating the losses within our ecological and social landscapes? How might we navigate the delicate balance between ecological preservation and community needs to create a more resilient future?<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":7857,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"event-category":[],"class_list":["post-7856","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socratessculpturepark-2026.kudos.nyc\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-category?post=7856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}