Come make bowls with us while sharing conversations around intimacy, memory, and connection.

Friday, January 9, 2 - 4pm
Monday, January 12, 1 - 4pm
Tuesday, January 13, 1 - 4pm

Roble Arts Gym
375 Santa Teresa St, Stanford, CA 94305

1,000 Ways to Hold is a year-long participatory project rooted in conversation and clay organized by VPA Visiting Artist Erika Chong Shuch. In sessions across campus, you’ll make ceramic bowls together while sharing reflections on the question: What have you held, and what has held you?  No experience necessary.

The bowls, along with recorded reflections from participants, will become part of a collective artwork and digital archive that will culminate in a spring exhibition at the Anderson Collection.

Erika Chong Shuch is a choreographer, director, and performance maker whose work spans experimental performance and social practice, often inventing unexpected forms of audience engagement. Since 2000, her original work frequently features intergenerational casts of artists and non-artists. Her projects often center people whose lives and labor sit outside the spotlight, broadening ideas of where and how art-making begins.

She is the founder of For You, a performance group that brings strangers together and explores performance as a form of gift-giving. For You’s works range from intimate encounters to large-scale public parties and have been commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Court Theater (Chicago), The Momentary (AK), Cantor Arts Center, and Edge on the Square (Chinatown SF).

VPA Visiting Artist Erika Chong Shuch is hosted by the Office of the Vice President for the Arts. 1,000 Ways to Hold is co-sponsored by the Anderson Collection, the Office for Religious & Spiritual Life, and the Office of the Vice President for the Arts.