"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.

WOMAN BEHIND THE THREADS, Bossa Projects

Woman Behind The Threads/ Group Show

Bossa Projects

“WOMAN BEHIND THE THREADS“

Artists: Aurora Molina (Courtesy of the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Coconut Grove, FL) Karla Caprali Marina Font ( Courtesy of the Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami, FL) Patricia Schnall Gutierrez

Opening : April 27, 6 - 9:00 pm On view until June 2 Curated by Liliana Beltran Text by Micah Oelze, PhD

BOSSA PROJECTS hosts artists' in a diversity of media, in this exhibition, artists who work with fiber.

Historically, textile production has been quite gendered. In the home and in the mill, women spent entire lives and careers working with fabric. The familiarity with needle and loom brought women to inhabit a series of gendered metaphors related to fabric. Women came to see themselves as weavers of the family, creators of social networks, and spinners of yarns. Woman Behind the Threads presents some thirty drawings, installations, textiles, and embroideries from four female artists that have explored these metaphors by stitching them right back into the fabric. The four artists represented here include Marina Font (b. Argentina – Courtesy of the Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami, FL), Karla Caprali (b. Brazil), Aurora Molina (b. Cuba- Courtesy of the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Coconut Grove, FL), and Patricia Schnall Gutierrez (b. USA). They continue a hemispheric tradition of using the canvas to explore family bonds, preserve memory, and present particularly feminine political critiques—themes serving as the warp threads of this show. Running through them, as weft, are inquiries into materiality, frames, and forms. The result is a dense and colorful tapestry. And in spaces throughout the gallery, the artists have used cutwork, or even unraveled their canvas, in order that we may more clearly see the woman behind the threads. Micah Oelze