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andrea guskin

Dreaming of Land in Two Times, 2019

The project begins with a conversation and an invitation. The first step is an invitation to map their family history onto either a map or globe using tape or string.

Mapping their family history with string

After mapping the trajectory of their families' journey in tape or string, participants re-create that line on a piece of wood--adding color or images around their lines.

Community created wood paintings

The paintings of the participants were often reminiscient of water, land, and maps.

Dreaming in Two Lands
with interactive community elements. A rod was added to the back of each painting, and holes were drilled inside the larger painting. In this way, the work can only be complete with the stories of the community in place.

Typewriter Memory Project with artist C.K. Itamura

In early 2019, I launched the From Where to Here project: a participatory community art project that seeks to create a space to honor the journeys taken, as individuals and as families, to reach the Bay Area. It takes the form of multi-faceted art events that encourage collective creativity and conversation through art-making, writing, music and collaboration.

This first painting,

Dreaming of Land in Two Times, became the backbone of the interactive community work.

This project is ongoing, and was funded in 2019 by both a grant from the City of San Leandro and The Red Poppy Art House in San Francisco. The events and exhibitions in 2019 included Station SL, the Red Poppy Art House, and the Community Impact Lab.

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