1,000 Ways to Hold – Conversation and Clay Workshop with Erika Chong Shuch RSVP

Come make bowls with us while sharing conversations around intimacy, memory, and connection.

Wednesday, January 14, 12 - 2pm
(Drop-in starts every 30 minutes)
Open to the public

O'Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm
175 Electioneer Road Stanford, CA 94305
Stanford, CA 94305

Paid parking is available at the Searsville Lot
190 Searsville Rd
Stanford, CA 94305


1,000 Ways to Hold is a year-long participatory project rooted in conversation and clay organized by VPA Visiting Artist Erika Chong Shuch. In sessions across campus, you’ll make ceramic bowls together while sharing reflections on the question: What have you held, and what has held you? No experience necessary.

The bowls, along with recorded reflections from participants, will become part of a collective artwork and digital archive that will culminate in a spring exhibition at the Anderson Collection.

Erika Chong Shuch is a choreographer, director, and performance maker whose work spans experimental performance and social practice, often inventing unexpected forms of audience engagement. Since 2000, her original work frequently features intergenerational casts of artists and non-artists. Her projects often center people whose lives and labor sit outside the spotlight, broadening ideas of where and how art-making begins. She is the founder of For You, a performance group that brings strangers together and explores performance as a form of gift-giving. For You’s works range from intimate encounters to large-scale public parties and have been commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Court Theater (Chicago), The Momentary (AK), Cantor Arts Center, and Edge on the Square (Chinatown SF).

If you have any questions, please contact Edi Dai at edidai@stanford.edu.

VPA Visiting Artist Erika Chong Shuch is hosted by the Office of the Vice President for the Arts. 1,000 Ways to Hold is co-sponsored by the Anderson Collection, the Office for Religious & Spiritual Life, and the Office of the Vice President for the Arts. This workshop is co-organized with the O'Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm.

RSVP closes Wednesday, January 14, at 10am.
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