GATHERING

queer as craft club

Chat, ink, stitch, collage, sit quietly — all energy levels welcome!

Bring your own project, partake in QACC community projects, fold a paper crane with Miram Julianna, or use Living Room's art library ($10 add-on at checkout). No high odor projects please. No prior art experience necessary.

More about Miriam Julianna’s paper cranes

In the Shinto tradition of senbazuru when you fold 1,000 cranes, those cranes will carry your truest wish to the Gods' ears in return for your dedication. Inspired by this tradition and her friendship with trans activist Eon Harris Schroeder, the artist Miriam Julianna has been engaging strangers in a storytelling/crane folding practice where she will fold an infinite number of cranes over her lifetime, each imbued with her wish that trans and GNC folks be loved fully by the communities that surround them. 

If you share this wish, you are invited to join her by folding a crane. 

As you fold your crane imagine how it will feel to live in a world where that wish is reality. Using reclaimed paper, follow the steps below & feel free to personalize it with materials in the craft library. These cranes will be used to construct a bespoke installation here at Living Room. 

About your hosts

Jen Pape is a DC and Baltimore-based artist exploring how abstract components of our identifications may take mental, emotional, and physical form. Their work questions how our thoughts, words, and actions can reflect our connective consciousness.

Starting all work from the belief that creation is the best balm to living in unprecedented times, Miriam Julianna is a multimedia artist and organizer whose practice entwines community with the reclamation of materials and stories. At her studio (Glass Class DC) you can take classes and attend community arts showcases with a focus on copper foil stained glass.