"Art can impact the social context of family dislocations and can serve as a powerful tool in encouraging an open national dialogue about Zero Tolerance in our country"

So (sew) America Cares is a participatory social art project with a commitment to raise awareness about the lives of the children separated from their parents at the border. All the faces stitched together strengthen the very fabric of our own society.
In 2018 a Zero Tolerance immigration policy was announced, requiring that all families who cross the border shall not only be separated but also charged in federal court with the misdemeanor crime of illegal entry.

This Project’s mission is to advocate for these children and to extend an invitation to anyone who would like to participate. Thread by thread, fiber by fiber, a participating community will increase its understanding of the circumstances of these children who never asked to be illegal aliens. The project consists of 10 different faces that will be repeated 100 times each to add 1000 faces. The faces had been laser etched on raw canvas to allow the participant to use any kind of thread, yarn, wool, fabric, paint etc. So (sew) America Cares has a plan: to "sew" them back, to never allow these children to be lost again, to create a quilt of 1000 faces representing a portion of these children.
We cannot allow these traumatized children to disappear and in time, be forgotten.People are encouraged to stitch, sew, knit, knot, crochet, embroider, or braid these drawings so as to symbolically recover these children’s faces and lives again.

So (sew) America Cares is an international call for people to participate and raise awareness as to the consequences of this immigration policy and its devastating effect on children. As citizen, artist, mother and a child that suffered being separated from my family for eight years, I am concerned about the hundreds of separated children across our country.

"Talking to Hear Our Threads Rattle"

"Talking to Hear Our Threads Rattle" Opening : Friday July 1st 7:00 - 9:00 pm CCPS : 1007 SW 8th St, Little Havana

"A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" Natalia Schonowski

Talking To Hear Our Threads Rattle

Talking to Hear Our Heads Rattle, speaks to the futility of our work, traditionally women's work, work which is never done. Still, there is a hopefulness in our labor, a societal importance even, in the weaving together of community and family. The individual fiber is woven into the whole. The thread becomes something stronger than itself, fabric, and it is this fabric we use to express ourselves, to tell our stories, of our work, in our work. A story can be woven with a single strand. Both ugly truths and fleeting beauty are spoken, cut from the same cloth. Arachne, a mortal woman and talented weaver, challenged Athena, goddess of wisdom and craft. Arachne was transformed into an arachnid. Our patron saint, the intricate webs we weave. Thread is silent. Silently creating, alive at work in the machine.

An Exhibition of Fiber Based Work

Featuring : Nathalie Alfonso, Griselle Gaudnik, April Hartley, Aurora Molina, Carrie Sieh, and Natalia Schonowski.

Opening Friday, July 1st 7:00 - 10:00 pm
"Presence of / Absence of: Thread and Fibers as Oath, Oppressor and Ornament" a Talk by Kara Acettola, Thursday, July 21st 7:00 - 9:00 pm by Kara Acettola of Little Sages Books
A Conversation With the Artists, moderated by Stacy Conde,Friday, July 8th 7:00 - 9:00pm
Closing Friday, July 29th 7:00 - 9:00 pm

CCPS : Located at 1007 SW 8th St. in Little Havana.

"Talking to Hear Our Threads Rattle" Conceptualized by Aurora Molina and S. Conde

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