Join us for the first portraiture workshop in the Changing Faces series with W.O.W. Artist-in-Residence Singha Hon.Changing Faces workshops are 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? This workshop will focus on self-portraiture, exploring the legacy and value of practicing self portraiture as a space to reflect on external and internal gazes. Participants in the workshop will be given prompts to interrogate and resolve the conflict between how they are seen vs how they see themselves, and space to create new types of images of themselves and find agency in that image. With materials to draw, collage, and experiment with, participants will be encouraged to create images that represent how they appear to others or how they feel inside, with the possibility of exploring if there are symbols, animals or other imagery, that they associate with themselves. *Please note that we have a limited capacity of 15 for this workshopMore workshops will be announced later <3***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.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 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.