SPACE IN BETWEEN

SPACE IN BETWEEN is a collaborative project in the form of a sewing and embroidery workshop. It is a production of soft-sculptures out of disassembled border patrol uniforms reassembled based on the forms of desert flora indigenous to the US/Mexico border and the weaving and embroidery traditions of Los Tenangos, Hidalgo, Mexico. Sometimes appropriating and other times reclaiming these techniques, participants relay their own personal border-crossing experience. This embroidered narrative element is combined in creative ways with the desert plants. Gloria Anzaldua, scholar, activist, and author of “Borderlands / La Frontera”, views Nepantla as a reference to living in the borderlands or crossroads, and the process of creating alternative spaces in which to live, function or create. The workshop represents an attempt to maintain an ethnic connection with vital cultural Mexican craft traditions.

Houston

  • January 16, 2010 - February 16, 2010
  • Box 13 Artspace
  • Participants The Houston Interfaith Worker Justice Center

The first run of SPACE in BETWEEN took place in early 2010 at Box 13, in a former Singer sewing machine showroom in Houston’s East End, home to a large and longstanding Spanish-speaking immigrant community. Participants in the workshop, themselves immigrants to the United States from Mexico and Central America, produced numerous sculptural replicas of desert plants indigenous to the Southwestern United States.

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Charlotte

  • January 16 to 28, 2012, and February 6-12, 2012
  • McColl Center for the Arts
  • Participants Parents from Central Avenue Bilingual Preschool

As one of McColl Center for Visual Art’s Knight Artists-in-Residence, Margarita Cabrera conducted her community outreach project Space In Between and invited members of the Charlotte-based immigrant community to collaborate in the sewing and embroidery workshop.

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