RATTLE MAKING WORKSHOP
RATTLE MAKING WORKSHOP
2 sessions with Jay Havens
Embrace this opportunity to work with 2Spirit artist and educator Jay Havens (Haudenosaunee-Mohawk) for a remote learning circle and rattle making workshop. Yes, you will make your own traditional rattle! And, while learning to assemble your own rawhide rattle, Jay will also encourage us to examine ideas of gathering, community, memory, and storytelling.
Over two sessions, Jay will share a variety of rattle making techniques, take everyone through the hands-on process of assembling the rattle, with additional artistic suggestions to make this experience unique to the individual. The whole experience will touch on traditionalism, indigenization, and inclusion by looking at the resilience of art-making practices. Given time, we can even make some music together!
Meet Jay Havens
Jay Havens has over 17 years’ experience working on projects for stage, public installation, and exhibition. His practice embraces re-learning the ways of onkwehonwe (original people) and un-learning ways which go against natural cycles as a lifelong adventure and continuous challenge. Havens is a trained scenographer who has designed artworks for the New York State Museum, cities of Vancouver, Mississauga, and Toronto. Jay welcomes opportunities to pass on knowledge and has worked with schools and institutions across Turtle Island (North America) and around the world. He has made over two dozen collaborative murals with students of all ages primarily in unceded Sto:lo Territory (Fraser River) as well as in Haudenosaunee Territories in modern day ON and NY. See www.jayhavens.me for more information.
