I am strong because… | collage workshop with Marta Frej

The workshop led by Marta Frej will be an opportunity for creative reflection on our inner strength. Participants will express their thoughts by creating collages, inspired by the artist’s works from the series “I am strong because…”. This is a creative space to discover one’s own sources of strength and their artistic interpretation.

About the series “I am strong because…”:

Strength has always fascinated me. I have heard the phrase “strong person” so many times, in so many contexts and situations. I felt that it was good to be a strong person, that most want it, and that the world rewards it.

Just what does it mean? Because it’s not about physical strength after all, at least not exclusively. The #jestemsstrongabo project has brought me a little closer to answering this question. At the workshop, I would like to search together with the participants for the source of strength in ourselves, in the energy of the group and in mutual relations, and describe our search with simple artistic means.

I am strong because I get joy and encouragement from talking and working with other women and I want to share this .

Marta Frej:

Visual artist, illustrator, president of the Kulturoholism Foundation. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz. She has participated in many group exhibitions and had about 50 solo exhibitions.

She is the winner of the 2015 Equality Glasses Award, awarded by the Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka Foundation, in the category of women’s rights and counteracting gender discrimination for herartistic work committed to defending women’s rights and gender equality. Co-author of the book “Memes and Graphs” with Agnieszka Graff, author of the herstory comic book “Dromaders”, and the book “150 Faces of Marta Frej”.

Her best-known works are captioned paintings of a feminist nature with sociological premises. They illustrate the contemporary life of women in Poland. The works, which have taken the form of paintings, have been exhibited in various galleries throughout Poland.

For whom.

The workshop is addressed to women over 16 years of age living in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian province.

Registration:

To sign up for the workshop, buy a ticket for 50 PLN. The number of places is limited.

The event is held as part of the Festival of Forgotten Cultures: Female Builders. Herstories of Courageous Womenco-financed by funds from the Local Government of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship.

The event is part of the celebration of the Year of Brave Women.