Open Call: Artists for an Artst's Tent!

we are pleased to announce this Open Call!
Artists for an Artist's Tent.

We are the One Stop Family Pop Up! Our aim is to help families access and enjoy outdoor events while raising children by providing two tents in public spaces: 1). An artist’s tent that invites community members to engage in interactive art workshops related to family, and 2). A lactation tent + a diaper changing station + priority rest & play area + an information table – accommodations that all families need but are not yet provided in our community. Our awareness initiatives celebrate maternal health and serve to improve access for pregnant women and parents.

Your proposal should have:

・Your name

・Your website/SNS account name

・An explanation of your interactive art workshop idea(s) in a one-two page proposal. Please describe your:

A: Workshop or interactive public art.

B: Art show

You may hold either A (workshop or interactive public art), B (an art show), or both A and B.

Tent dimensions are 10 x 10 feet. You will be supplied with a table, chairs and tarp wall if needed.

Proposals are due: May 31 at 11:59pm, 2018. Please email your proposals to 1stopfamilypopup@gmail.com.

One Stop Family Pop Ups will be held four times from about 1:00-4:00PM on Saturdays or Sundays during June – September, rain or shine. Planned locations include Astoria Park and Socrates Park, in Queens; a street festival in LES of Manhattan; and Boogie On The Boulevard, in the Bronx. As specific dates are still TBA, we will match you to an available date and location.

Each participating artist will be awarded $125 for their participation and $100 for material costs for a total of $225. Selected artists are able to access and shop for free materials at The Materials For The Arts during June-September. Each artist is responsible for the design and implementation of their agreed-upon project.

To aid you in brainstorming and proposing applicable concepts, please take a look at our previous activities at:

https://1stopfamily.blogspot.com/2018/01/one-stop-family-pop-up-for-2018.html

https://www.nyfa.org/ArtistDirectory/ShowProject/95f0d4e7-ab6f-47c4-8fb2-5aea97b16d32

Please feel free to email us with any questions at 1stopfamilypopup@gmail.com.

We look forward to hearing from you!

One Stop Family Pop Up

The project is supported by Citizens Committee for NYC, and New York Foundation for the Arts.

One Stop Family Pop Up for 2018

This image depicts our expanded plan for the One Stop Family Pop Up in 2018.  
We are planning to host the project at family-events in NYC Parks and public spaces.
The exhibit will have two walled tents, 10x10 feet each. 

A guest artist will be stationed at one tent. There, the parent artist will hold an art show and workshop that relates to family living.

The other tent will be a private lactation tent near a diaper changing station. There will be a priority seating area as well. 
People can use diapers, wipes,  hand sanitizer, manual breast pumps,  lactation pads, etc. as needed.

These are accommodations that all families need but are still not publicly provided in our community. When made available, they enable people to stay and enjoy events for a much longer period of time rather than rushing home to breastfeed, pump, or change a diaper. Our awareness initiatives celebrate maternal health and serve to improve access for pregnant women and parents.




We will also hold workshops so that people can make a lasting commitment to being family-friendly. For example, at a pin making workshop, participants may create slogans like, “Pregnant? Take my seat” or "I support breastfeeding" to wear on their shirts, hats, or bags to display their support in public on an ongoing basis.

We will give small business owners in the community our “Breastfeeding Welcome Here” and “Priority Seating” signs to put on their doors or in their windows.

 

Example 1

Performance/WS by a guest mother artist

images from Immigrant Artists at September Boogie On The Boulevard 2017, photo by David Centeno

DeborahWasserman held an interactive salad-making workshop entitled, “Your Body is a Temple”. Passerbys gazed at beautiful, natural, and clean greens at the table. The artists led people in making salads with fresh ingredients and sharing them with each other.

Example 2

Artwork/WS by a guest mother artist

images from Immigrant Artists at September Boogie On The Boulevard 2017, photo by David Centeno

YasuyoTanaka held a “Health Karuta(Cards)” workshop and introduced safe, natural plant colors onto paper, along with felt pens and crayons.
Participants drew a health catchword and its image on cards. A WS like this one helps us to share ideas about our health while playing together.

If you are interested in our project, please feel free to contact us!

BOOGIE at Boogie On The Boulevard !

The Second Art Show and Workshops at Boogie On The Boulevard's outdoor event, The Bronx

August 20th, 2017, 12-4pm

We set up a tent for our information table and pin making workshop. We displayed two big signs that explained our project/history and how to participate in the project.

With the Peek-a-boo, we explained how the world changed when we were pregnant, and asked participants to see the world as a pregnant woman to gain empathy.

Many young men and women, and even elderly men, tried the belly sculpture that weighed 20-lbs; the water bottles inside the sculpture simulated the average belly of a pregnant woman.  

Make Your Own Pin Workshop, 2 ¼” button.

After trying the interactive sculpture, participants wrote their commitment to support pregnant women and new parents in their own languages, and then created their own pins on-site.

At the pilot event we held, 50 people participated in the pin making workshop in four hours. Participants took their pins with them to display on their bags or person while in public to show their ongoing support for pregnant women and families.

Hello!

Hello!

We are planning two projects for 2018:

・One Stop Family Pop Up project

・Stop Gap pilot project

Let us first tell you who we are.

We are Christine Serdjenian Yearwood and Rica Takashima.

Christine Serdjenian Yearwood is the Founder and CEO of UP-STAND.
The UP-STAND movement works to improve accessibility 
for pregnant women and caregivers across the United States.

Rica Takashima is a Manga graphic novelist and participatory public art artist. 

We met by chance at an Astoria community market at the end of 2016,

and we have since started two projects together. 

Purpose:

We are a group of mothers –

We bring attention to the accommodations that pregnant women 

and families need in order to make New York City more family-friendly and accessible. 

Working together, we can draw attention to this cause, 

increase awareness about our movements, and provide practical follow-up information

 and materials to support pregnant women and families.

If you are interested in our project, please feel free to contact us!

Our first Pop Up!

MOMpreneurs’ Show & Tell Event at Astoria Park 

June 2017

A family-friendly interactive art show using a Peekaboo-sculpture and a wearable-sculpture.

 

Our practical accommodations: Diaper changing station, and lactation tent.
We also provided a priority seating area and stroller parking section.

 

Christine’s story: 
After giving birth and starting the UP-STAND movement, I listened to countless pregnancy horror stories about a lack of accommodations and inaccessible spaces - Trying to find a store that would offer a restroom, health complications from being expected to perform dangerous work, standing too long with circulation issues, carrying something too heavy, fainting from exhaustion or motion sickness, and being shoved in line or onto crowded trains. 

Pregnancy can change a woman’s body in extreme ways: Fatigue, nausea, backaches and headaches, dizziness, a shifting center of gravity and imbalance, carpal tunnel syndrome and a poor grip, leg cramps, sciatica, and blurry vision. Many women experience these health complications starting before pregnancy is visible and lasting through labor and delivery.

Many people are also unaware of these typical changes, and are even less aware of the serious complications women can experience during pregnancy. 
New York treats pregnancy as something that may be accommodated as a courtesy, but has almost zero institutional, practical support to make public spaces and transportation accessible. The same goes for parents trying to participate in our social and economic lives with children in tow. Our movement encourages people and places to change these norms by providing family-friendly accommodations as policy whenever possible.

Rica’s story:
The reason I am doing this is because when I was pregnant years ago, I experienced many things that I had never imagined before. My sense of taste became sensitive and I could clearly differentiate between organic and non-organic vegetables and other produce. I cooked more at home.

My sense of smell had become sensitive as well. I was concerned about the smell of detergents and bleach. I started to use natural, safe detergents such as baking soda and soap. I was concerned about the bad smell of pollution in urban cities and got used to spending time in the park and the suburbs. After giving birth, I lost the this sensitivity and returned to the way my senses had been before pregnancy, but since that time I began to think about recycling, organic foods, and the environment more seriously. I started to tell my story to people, and wish people think more about pregnant women, babies and the environment to improve our communities.