Weaving Monuments (April 19)

On Saturday, April 19^th, from 10:30am-5:00pm you are invited to participate in the remaking of a sculpture at LongHouse. Help weave Maren Hassinger's Monument, her site-specific sculpture, first created in our gardens in 2023. Signaling the importance of community engagement in Hassinger’s practice, visitors can work together with her studio assistant Cole Palatini to reconstruct this large, organic piece by weaving thin, deadwood branches pruned from our gardens into the existing sculpture framework. The piece will continue to be on display through the season and visitors can continue to interact with it by carefully interlacing sticks into the beautifully woven, patterned cube that appears massive and weightless at the same time. Bring your own pruning shears to help cut branches and twigs for the weaving!

A native of Los Angeles, Maren Hassinger is a multimedia artist whose practice bridges fiber arts, installation, performance, and sculpture. Incorporating everyday materials such as wire, rope, newspapers, plastic bags, petals, and dirt, Hassinger's art explores the subjects of movement, family, love, nature, the environment, consumerism, identity, and race. Hassinger has stated that her work “focuses on elements, or even problems—social and environmental—that we all share, and in which we all have a stake…. I want it to be a humane and humanistic statement about our future together.”