Summer Camp Week 1:
Meet Your Gremlin, Make Your Gremlin
For this year’s special featured artist camp, ILY2 and ILYouth2 are excited to be bringing Umico Niwa to Portland!
In this camp, campers will utilize Jungian active imagination techniques to go into our inner subterranean spaces and meet the inner gremlins—the little aspects of self that delight in producing chaos and malfunction. Campers will sculpt these figures out of organic materials such as discarded potatoes, orange peels, sticks and flower petals.
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About the Instructor:
Umico Niwa received her MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond in 2020. Rejecting Western notions of personhood, Niwa considers alternative modes of existence unbridled by bodily restrictions or gender constructs. Her creations speak to a state of being defined by perpetual movement - a flower, wilting; a fruit ripening. A seed vault, a genetic sequence, a sensorium, a somatic memory bank. A valley full of weeds, bursting with life.