For more information about my Del Rio Project see https://www.delriotrailart.org/phase-one-artists/rosalva-willow
Sewing Circles
Cyanotype Collage
60'“x72”
“Sewing Circles” was commissioned by the City of Sacramento’s Office of Arts & Culture in support of the Del Rio Trail Project - a project that converts an abandoned strip of railway into a walking & bicycling trail to be used by the community.
The cyanotypes collaged into this piece were created by members of the community who attended free workshops I gave at area schools and at local workshops that were designed for women and open to the public. Community members gathered plants along the Del Rio Trail and from their own home gardens to use in their printmaking process. I used their prints to create this large scale collage.
“Sewing Circles” is inspired by the collaborative quilt making process and celebrates the ways in which women have always worked together to build, sustain, shape and reshape our cities- by infusing them with beauty, by weaving lasting human connections within them and by doing whatever work needs doing.
