Join us for an afternoon of creating Chinese opera-inspired masks with 4th Storefront Residency artist-in-residence, Singha Hon, who will be providing materials. The Nuo Mask workshop will center around the history and importance of Nuo Masks in Nuo Opera. In the workshop, participants will be encouraged to think of these masks not as just a form of costume or makeup, but powerful connections to Chinese gods endowed with religious and cultural meaning. In the workshop, participants will learn about three main Nuo character types and the traditional ways they were created, as well as common color themes and characteristics associated to different archetypes. From there, participants will have time to make their own mask.This workshop is also part of Changing Faces, workshops centered around self-portraiture and making images that allow participants to ask the following questions: who are you and who am I? How am I seen and how would I like to be seen? What does it mean to change faces to survive? What does it mean to change faces to thrive and find peace? **Please come scent-free.ABOUT SINGHA HONThrough her residency, Singha Hon’s workshops will focus on opening up the practice of self portraiture through drawing, collage, and mask making, to spark discussion around identity and the impact of external gazes. Through public programs and workshops, she aims to create a space for the Chinatown community to practice self portraiture in distinct opposition to gentrification and erasure. Tying in themes of the zodiac, participants will be given space to create their own self portraits, engaging with imagery from Zodiac animals, to play bringing with the traits and legacy associated to these animals into their self image.ABOUT 店面 ARTIST RESIDENCY 店面 Residency program is a 6-month residency opportunity for an emerging Asian American artist to co-create work alongside the Chinatown community. The artist-in-residence is provided a stipend, studio and exhibition space, as well as program support from the W.O.W. Project team to create a festive storefront window display in celebration of Lunar New Year. ABOUT W.O.W. PROJECT The W.O.W Project is a community-based initiative that reinvents, preserves, and encourages Chinatown’s creative culture and history through arts, culture and activism. Located inside Wing On Wo & Co., the oldest continually-run family business in New York's Chinatown, The W.O.W Project was established by fifth-generation store owner, Mei Lum, to bring concerns of a rapidly changing Chinatown into a resident-led space for intergenerational dialogue and action. Since its inception in 2016, The W.O.W. Project has held numerous panel discussions about the role of art and social change, an annual storefront artist-in-residency program, film screenings showcasing Asian American women filmmakers, and several Chinatown storytelling open mic nights, that have reached over 1,000 residents. Our core mission is to create space for conversations to happen across language barriers and generational gaps to actively shape the future of Chinatown.