Shelter links those who are using the resources of the Salvation Army’s Emergency Shelter, undergraduate art education students and art therapy undergraduates from Alverno College, and RedLine resident artists. Together, they create a limited edition, handmade artist book.
This program runs for five consecutive Saturdays and allows homeless children and their families, who are dealing with the stress of being displaced, an important opportunity to interact in a positive way. RedLine creates a platform to discuss difficult social justice issues. Each two and a half hour session begins in the gallery learning about the artwork on exhibition. From this conversation, children and adults break into peer groups to create framed printing plates. At the sessions’ end, the entire group resumes in the Print Shop to make a limited edition of their prints. One edition goes with the participants; other editions are bound into books. Both RedLine’s library and the Salvation Army hold copies of the finished books. To sponsor a semester of Shelter, please write us at www.redlinemke@gmail.com.
