Making our Migrant Voices and Presence Felt through Fiber

Making our Migrant Voices and Presence Felt through Fiber

Tanya Aguiñiga and AMBOS: Art Made Between Opposite Sides

Join Charlie James Gallery and AMBOS on Saturday July 15th from 11am to 5pm for a weaving and embroidery gathering and workshop. Together we will be creating elements for a collaborative sculpture to be exhibited at the Hammer Museum this fall as part of Made in LA: Acts of Living. The workshop is free and open to anyone who has personal experience with migration, whether directly or through family ties. Open to all ages. Materials and snacks will be provided.

AMBOS: Art Made Between Opposite Sides is a collaborative platform for bi-national artists along the US/Mexico border to express, document and mitigate community needs through craft-based projects centered in care. Founded in 2016 by artist Tanya Aguiñiga, as a way to make visible issues that affect the transnational population in Tijuana, Mexico, the project has organically grown in scale and scope in reaction to a changing border landscape. In its various phases, the project has served as documentation of the border, collaboration with artists, community activism, mutual aid, border and craft education, and an exploration of identities influenced by the liminal zone of the borderlands. Work created through AMBOS project has been exhibited at the Consulate General of Mexico, Los Angeles, Museum of Art and Design, New York, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. among others. Some of AMBOS’ projects reside in the permanent collections of The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Depaul Art Museum in Chicago. The project’s current focus is AMBOS Ceramics, a trauma-informed ceramics program at two LGBTQ+ Asylum Shelters in Tijuana, Mexico.