Welcome, everybody.
So glad to see you here.
Today's program features Tierra del Sol artists, Jackie Marsh
and Katie Mendoza presented as part of the Wignall Museum's
Home Edition, a series of curated artist talks,
workshops, and discussions featuring
artists and cultural workers.
My name is Rebecca Trawick, I'm the director and curator
of the Wignall Museum, pronouns she, her, hers.
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to innovative and contemporary art objects and ideas.
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resides on the traditional and unceded lands of the Tongva
people.
We offer our recognition and respect to the elders
both past, present, and future.
And we encourage all of you to learn
more about the historical and contemporary Indigenous issues
in our communities.
Hi everyone.
My name is Andy Hadle.
I'm the proprietor at the museum and I'm also the studio tech
for the studio arts department.
Along with Rebecca and Roman, I'll
be assisting in today's Zoom session.
And Hello.
My name is Roman Stollenwerk.
I'm the assistant curator at the Wignall
Museum of Contemporary Art.
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And thank you.
So I have the great honor of introducing all of you
to Jackie and Katie.
So Jackie Marsh has worked as a studio assistant
at the Progressive Art Studios of Tierra del Sol since 2009.
Marsh produces whimsical depictions
of animals and flowers in painting, drawing,
and ceramics.
In both her two and three-dimensional work,
gestural mark making is combined with a vibrant and loosely
applied color palette to define her delightfully exuberant
style.
In addition to being a studio artist,
Marsh also teaches art classes at Upland Art Studios
and Joslyn Senior Center and other venues.
Her work has been exhibited at such venues as the Chan
Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, California;
California Baptist University, Riverside, California;
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California;
and Zask Gallery, Palos Verdes, California.
When she's not developing her art career,
you can find Marsh at work providing compassionate care
to the animals of local animal shelters.
Katie Mendoza has a deep interest
in the world around her, and she thoughtfully
shares with others her insights on a wide variety of subjects.
She's an explorer and inspires those around her
with positive inquisitiveness.
Mendoza seeks daily to expand her skills,
and is a naturally talented artist and teacher.
Every day she has something brilliant to share.
Mendoza creates and designs characters and stories
for movies.
She recently designed and made a set of tarot cards
and does readings, so reach out to her later
if you're interested.
Mendoza's paintings, drawings, and sculpture
generally have a surprise element to draw the viewer in.
So big thanks and a huge welcome to Jackie and Katie.
My name is Jackie.
My pronoun is she and her.
I have brown hair with long highlights.
I have blue eyes, and I am wearing a pink shirt.
I have been with Tierra about 12 years.
And I'm Katie Mendoza.
I've been an artist for Tierra del Sol for about six years.
My pronouns are she and her, and my appearance
is I have brown hair and brown skin, I'm Latina,
and I'm wearing an army jacket.
I'm Rebecca Hamm.
I'm a white woman with long hair and bangs
sitting in a room with a white curtain behind me.
And I will be assisting the presentation,
and I'll hand it over to Lauren.
Hi, I'm Lauren Romero.
I'm the program director for Upland Art Studios.
My pronouns are she and her.
I am Hispanic female, brown skin, cat eye glasses,
and I am sitting in my office in Upland.
My name is Laura Wilde.
My personal pronouns are she and her.
I have blond hair and blue eyes, and I'm
pretty pale because I've been inside a lot.
And I teach ceramics and painting.
I've been with Tierra for about four years now.
So we'll go ahead back to that PowerPoint now and get started.
Ready to make your creative ideas into Zines?
Welcome everyone who has made zines before.
Can you raise your hands?
Welcome to the careers in the arts workshop,
and these are some pictures of when we were at the Wignall
Live last year.
This is our artist educator team.
Here is some zine examples.
There are so many varieties of zines.
A theme zine and ordinary work.
A zine of small artworks.
A colorful journal of an artist's
shows and their experiences.
What is a zine?
A zine is basically a little magazine
that is made by anyone for any reason.
History of the zine.
Zines were made in the punk subcultures
to carry a message about music beliefs or anything
that they felt was important it began as a DIY effort
with an anti-authoritarian message.
Have lots of fun.
We're going to come up with an idea for the zine.
We're going to look at some of the tools and supplies you use,
and how you use materials to freely express
your emotions and your ideas.
We'll be drawing, writing, collecting images.
Great examples of your own unique
designing for your own zine.
Collage and drawing.
Make a fun cover and add your original writings.
More ideas.
These zines were made from the scraps.
Important to add your name, title, date and name what kind
of edition you are making.
So when you make zines together with us,
you might even consider how you'll reproduce them, having
your name and edition on them.
But remember this can be about stories, a graphic novel,
drawings, information books, you can even
design a coloring book, you can mix it up and make
pop ups, all kinds of things.
Let's get started.
Give yourself permission to be play,
no critics or comparers allowed.
Use any materials you'd like and start with any page you'd like.
Some of the workshops and supplies.
Paper, pencils, pens, markers, glue sticks, pattern paper,
fabric yarn, magazines, scissors, and tape.
Give yourself room to work.
Zine making time.
Make your zines, and as we go, we'll share our steps.
During the last 15 minutes, we'll
share ours works in progress.
Now let's demonstrate.
So we're going to start by showing
how we can fold a basic zine, but you
can do it any way you like too.
Your turn.
Let's get started.
Yay.
So now we're going to go live, and Katie's
going to demonstrate how to fold a zine, and we'll get busy.
Here is your piece of paper.
The first thing you're going to do
is to fold it up and down horizontally like a burrito,
as such.
When you're done, fold it side to side, like a book right
here.
And when you're done, do it again.
After, you unfold the whole thing
and then fold it side to side as such, like a book.
Then grabbing your scissors, we are
going to cut a line between the two squares.
When you're done it should look like a mouth when you open it,
like so.
After that, you fold it all over again from top to bottom,
and then you're going to squeeze it in there.
After that, you fold it.
And there is your zine.
Great.
So this will be the time to start
drawing and writing and designing and doing
all the zining you want with the materials that you brought.
I'd love to hear what themes or what you're interested in
and what you're going to create your zine about today.
Katie, you have any ideas?
I don't know.
What is your idea?
Well, since you asked, I created it--
I like to brainstorm.
So when I'm going to make a zine,
I'll put a centrally located area
and then just everything that I can think of to make the zine.
And last night, I was studying up my guitar music,
and I thought of some things so I took some notes.
And I wanted to use those to make my zine.
So I haven't got it all worked out yet,
but it's about teaching, so I'll be
making my zine about teaching.
I can tell what my theme is.
I'm going to do--
I've never been so grateful for my little tiny house
as in this last year, so I'm going
to do a zine about my house and my cats and my boyfriend.
So that's going to be my little zine, little thank you.
I'm going to make this shape on all the pages
and turn them into different things on each page.
I'm making a cookbook.
That's awesome.
I like that idea.
What are you going to make it about?
Which food?
It's called eat the rich.
Eat the ridge?
Eat the rich.
Oh, the rich.
Yeah.
They are full of flavor.
This is an old print I did, and so I'm
going to cut it [INAUDIBLE].
Move it closer.
That looks great.
Say that again?
Can you move it closer?
Oh, I'm sorry.
I'm on my phone.
I can't get my laptop to do its thing.
Then [INAUDIBLE].
That's great.
Uncle Began.
I don't see anybody else moving.
Uncle Began, it's nice to meet you on Zoom.
We've only met each other on Instagram I think, right?
Maybe yeah.
Who's talking?
I can't see who's talking.
It's Paige.
The director of--
Yeah.
How are you?
I'm good.
I just wanted to say hi, nice to see you.
Thanks for joining.
Yeah.
Now this is awesome.
I need to do more of this kind of stuff.
I haven't left my house in like six weeks.
So on that note, could we maybe hear where people are--
where you are located.
I was trying to think of a clever way to say that,
but where are you coming to us from?
Zineland.
I'm in Rancho Cucamonga.
I'm in Hollywood.
Claremont.
Upland.
Los Angeles.
Boston.
This us Mike.
I'm in Paducah, Kentucky.
Far away.
I'm miss--
Where are you?
If we are the international museum of quilts home of,
there's a huge fiber artist community here.
Are you really in Kentucky?
Yeah.
Yeah, Paducah.
I'm happy you joined us.
Yeah.
I love you guys.
I miss [? First Street ?] Gallery, I miss--
I mean, I pretty much have Rebecca
to thank for my process, really the mail art and all that.
She taught a class one time about mail art,
and I realized I can actually be an artist doing this thing.
That's nice.
And I love the post cards that come, for sure.
Jackie, what theme are you doing?
I haven't really have one going right now.
But she's done a lot of themes, and she usually
will make them out of her art.
So it's not necessarily like a complete story,
but there's artwork within her scenes,
and they're very, very pretty.
Jessica, Evelyn, where are you guys located right now,
if you don't mind sharing?
Hi Jessica.
Hi.
Hi Jessica.
Jessica, what city are you in right now?
In Snowhills.
Snowhills?
That's out by Phelan, I think, too.
It's Oak Hills.
Oak Hills.
And Evelyn said in the chat she's in Redlands.
Nice.
I'm in Glendale, California.
Nice to see you, Evelyn.
Thanks for joining us.
I love the Cucamonga background you two guys have.
That's awesome.
Amy Maloof.
Yeah, I was there when it was just temporary,
and then it got installed.
Yeah.
We're lucky to have that beautiful public sculpture
as a landmark outside our door.
The Wignall and Rebecca Trawick and Roman and Andrew,
they rock.
Just so you know.
They are the stars.
I can't take credit for any of that, but thank you anyway.
Andy, I can't find my version I think because of my computer
trouble today.
But Andy actually got permission from Amy
to make a version of Cucamonga that
says Home Edition, which is the series that we
are participating at today.
They had it the other day.
There it is.
I love it.
Look at that.
Very cool.
Nice.
That's great.
I got to say that Wignall is probably say
the birthplace of Uncle Bacon.
Amy Maloof used to work in our studios.
She was one of our mentors.
Yeah.
I think I would follow her around.
She used to be at the door too, and I was there just after her
at the door as well.
Yeah.
And now she teaches here.
Yeah.
She keeps us all on our toes.
Pete, what's your zine about?
I am making a zine--
I'm just drawing my dog who was sitting on my lap
and now he's sitting across from me, so.
Perfect.
So cute.
He's a naked hairless dog.
He's posing for me now, so I'm just
doing different shots of him.
He had some hair on his head.
Yeah.
He's got a little bit of hair on his head, and that's about it.
And his tail.
Jackie and Katie, can I ask, do you guys
prefer to make original art using markers or pencils
or paint in your zines or do you like cutting and pasting
or do you like a combination?
Depends on my mood.
I usually before the drawing and stuff,
but sometimes I like to do collage.
I prefer the drawing.
And what do you guys love about making zines?
Why do you like that as a media and as part of your practice?
I personally like making zines because I actually
enjoy the idea of making something
that I like to read about and sharing it with everyone else.
It's been a pretty good way for you
to let people get to know you also.
I like creating zines because with all of my art and stuff.
I really like how you can just kind of make them
anywhere any time.
They're really easy to jump into and jump out
of, something like that.
I like that they're small sometimes.
Sometimes they're big, but sometimes they're small
and you can slip them in people's pockets
and they don't even know.
I have to show you the smallest zine I think I've made.
It's tiny.
Some teeny weeny ones.
I have gotten zines slipped in my pocket before at zine fairs.
And I get home and I'd look in my pockets
and I'm like, when did I get this?
Really?
That happened.
People do do that.
That's an incredible idea.
Hey Jessica, that looks great.
Nice.
Zines are also fun to mail to people.
So they're cheap to make and you--
half the price of a postage stamp.
That's what I do a lot.
As part of its popularity, not only can you
make anything you want, you can distribute them
any way you like.
Yeah.
I actually had a question about that, Rebecca.
I think all of you mentioned editions.
Can you maybe explain what that means and what that is?
I'd love to.
So in the tradition of printmaking,
if you make one original print and then
if you make another one from the same maybe printing
plate-- and Uncle Bacon's in the room, so I better be on it.
He's a print maker.
So the idea of printing one and using the same plate
to make editions, you would number them.
So it'd be like one--
let's say you make 10.
You can make 10 zines if you make a copy of it.
If you decide that you want it to be a limited edition,
you can number them, and if you want it to be unlimited,
then you just maybe write edition 1
or edition 3 or edition 3.
But it makes them extra special.
The original is always going to be the fine art original piece,
the reproductions can be part of your edition.
What do you think about--
anyone want to add to that information?
Paige, Pete, anybody?
I think you covered it.
I mean, zines are pretty much do whatever you want,
that's why I love zines.
And when I used to--
when I first started going to art
shows, I couldn't afford any art and I would always--
I collected zines.
So I've got a huge collection of zines now that some of them
have been collected by museums and stuff
like that from some artist friends.
But yeah, zines are amazing because of the freedom.
I agree with you Paige.
It's a really easy way to collect art
and to support local artists or artists
that you admire who maybe you can't afford their painting
but you can still own a little bit of their work.
I love that.
Exactly.
I first encountered zines in the punk rock
scene of the early '80s.
And people who enjoyed the band would
make these little pamphlets of their favorite player
or whatever, lyrics and stuff, and then they would hand them
out at the show.
And it was a way to express yourself.
Because punk wasn't being explored in the media at all.
Yeah.
I also really appreciated its counterculture and roots
in activism and communities that normally don't have a platform.
I really appreciate that as well.
Right.
I haven't done this in a very long time.
This is super fun.
I have also never done this kind where you cut it out Katie, how
you showed us how to cut the sliver,
out I've never done that before.
This is cool.
Yes.
I found it out on the internet.
Yeah, it's great.
How do you usually do it, Paige?
I would staple them together, and sometimes I
used to sew them together.
A very long time ago, I did a huge zine
where I asked 10 artists to all put things in
and then some people put stickers.
And so we collected all their pages
and then we stapled them all together
to make one kind of book zine and sold that
through a gallery for 20 bucks or something.
But it was super fun.
All the artists signed it and it had a little pack of stickers
attached.
Staples are making it a little more accessible for some people
too because the process of--
Katie has really got it down and teaches it well.
But sometimes it's really hard for people
to get that fold correct.
So you've done a lot of practicing.
The burrito hot dog fold, and then a hamburger fold.
Right.
I love the burrito reference.
It made perfect sense.
It did.
That's why she teaches you how to fold it.
Well, Uncle Bacon, are there any examples of fabric zines?
I'll show you something that somebody gave me.
I don't know that is exactly a zine,
but it's like a little notebook, and she took some--
they had a mending class, and so I brought some of my prints
on fabric and she made it into a little notebook.
So notes this is love notes.
I don't know if you can see that.
So love notes.
It's used to say-- it was a Valentine's Day class,
so it said love note.
So she took that and cut it into that and then it opens up.
And she's got all this fabric.
And then it opens up again.
And then this is my little I love you Candy
heart print that I brought.
So she took these-- and this is my love pig.
And so it's all incorporated into-- then
this is one that she did in her own class of that night.
And so she made it into this little notebook
and then there's a little page right here.
So it's kind of like a zine but it's zine
that I fill out for myself.
Very cool.
Yeah.
I mean, she's an amazing woman.
Tuscan Rose on Instagram.
I don't know if you all know that Uncle
Bacon's an amazing artist.
And he's done printmaking with us and all kinds of-- he
does workshops and just shares the beauty of creativity
wherever he goes.
Yeah.
That's why I love the zines.
This is why.
It's awesome.
Uncle Bacon, we're going to have you
as a guest artist on one of our guest artist events
coming up for Tierra.
Is that OK?
I could use Styrofoam plates prints.
Cool.
Yeah.
Nobody-- I mean everybody could just get to go nachos,
and they can use their nachos to make the print.
I think I did it with Rebecca's Girl Scout troop one time,
Styrofoam plate prints.
Rebecca [INAUDIBLE].
Yeah, I'd love that.
How are we doing, guys?
Should we share some of our zines?
Can we just keep making for five hours?
Is that OK?
Is this good?
Jessica, that's so good.
Love that.
Wow.
Jessica, that's adorable.
Really nice.
Thanks.
Jessica, is that you?
Is that a self portrait?
Yes.
It's so great.
I love it.
Here's mine.
Well, I don't know if you can see it with the--
When you scoot it back a little bit.
There we go.
Paige, I stole your idea, thinking about what I'm
grateful for during this time.
The silver lining approach.
You know what?
Put it halfway down your screen.
I couldn't see.
It was in the dark.
There it is, yeah.
Oh, that's great
It's gorgeous.
Nice.
Man, you've got the good paper there.
It's all colorful.
I have a stash in my office.
I need to get some new pens.
I had no idea my pens are pooping out.
Me too.
I have to refill this one.
It's like uh-oh.
OK, I'm ready to share mine.
I'm thinking we're not going back to the PowerPoint.
We'll just share zines going out.
This is my little house.
And there are my little two kitties that
never ever ever hold hands.
They fight all the time.
This is my fantasy two kitties.
There is my little garden.
There's my record player, which has become a very big deal
during this time too.
And then I just have little hearts on the back.
So that's my little zine.
That's a great one.
Love it.
Pete, are you ready to show us your dog portraits?
I'm going a little slow.
I don't draw normally.
So this is the cover.
It's so cute.
It's called Xolo in Hollywood.
This is my dog driving on La Cienega.
This is my dog in front of the Hollywood sign.
Nice.
Oh my God, fantasies.
Yeah.
This is all I have so far.
Your dog is pretty active in the world.
I like it.
Yeah.
We're trying to socialize him.
I'll never look at La Cienega the same.
Well, mine's not a story or anything.
I just started to draw.
So there's the shape in two things.
And I'm just like totally streaming conscious.
There's the Harold Benjamin background with the weirdo tree
added and the bird chaser.
Then I have to fill those in.
I've got work to do.
I love it.
But I like the idea of just doodling.
I was thinking about the first, second, third editions,
so I did my mostly true.
So I did a bunch of writing in them.
And then I made three, so you have to buy all three of them
to get the whole story.
The market [INAUDIBLE].
A subscription.
We can sign up for your subscription zines.
That's a good idea.
Hey Uncle Bacon, you have one in progress you can show us?
Yeah.
All right.
I mean these are a little subversive, but so a cookbook.
And then the first one is the rich have delicious hams.
You want a rich person that sits on their butts a lot,
much more tender.
And then rich old white ladies make good sausage.
And I have an--
I don't have an image of sausage yet, but I'm working on that.
So that's as far as I got.
Nice.
Jessica, yours is coming along awesome.
Jackie, how does your look?
Well, it started in one way.
It's kind of a little hard to see.
And did you fold it a little bit different too?
I kind of like it.
I have a huge variety of different ways of folding,
so can you share that with us too?
I don't really know exactly.
I just was folding it.
I just folded it.
So I don't know exactly how to fold.
And you could them pull apart and refold
inside out too so you have an extra whole set of zine
to work with.
Katie, what does yours look like?
Well, unfortunately I didn't get much done.
I got the cover, and I'm doing this bit of saving the bees.
You're collaging, Katie?
Well, actually I'm drawing them and gluing them onto the page.
Those are super cute bees.
Thank you.
I'm trying to show people that bees are not as scary as people
think they are.
They actually help with the environment.
That's why I'm trying to encourage
people to save the bees.
It's a good message zine.
I really love zines that have extra elements
taped in or glued in or--
I like to feel the texture, I love that.
Aren't you going to show us zine?
I am thinking about Halloween, so I did my favorite--
I did little--
I also had my own version of folding,
but I'm just drawing little ghosts and pumpkins
and fat bats.
Nice.
Why do you even fold?
Yeah, I went for it.
Sorry Katie, my scissors aren't here.
So that changed things.
Katie, you designed some tarot cards, didn't you?
With some encouragement from Laura,
I was able to make my own tarot deck.
I made a tarot deck that is basically urban fantasy themed.
For those of you who don't know, urban fantasy
is a subgenre of fantasy where you see a lot of fantasy art
elements such as unicorns, dragons, elves and stuff,
but you see them in a modern urbanized setting.
Like you see them in New York or LA or places like that.
Katie also made a--
she's making a definitions too.
We've talked a lot and--
so she's been working on her definitions for all the 78
cards.
It's a big, big job, and she has one more to finish the drawing
and complete that.
But it's amazing.
Is 78 the typical size of a tarot deck?
Yeah, it's the typical.
Yeah.
But sometimes people make it just
different like adding more or adding less or adding
different variations to it.
I just didn't mind a simplistic one.
It is definitely.
Is it a one of a kind or is it something
that you've reproduced?
It's one of a kind.
Would you like to be reproduced?
I am thinking about it and I would like that.
But there are some things we need
to get on with it, like for example,
how are you going to mass produce them
in both the front and the back?
Right.
And--
We can print little items prints out of each card
and then print them.
We need to hook up with Uncle Bacon
and have him give us a tutorial.
I think there's no turning back with this group.
We're like--
And you could print the boxes and then fold them
and have a custom box.
That would be super cool.
The Tierra del Sol Gallery is doing a group zine show
at the end of the year.
So Katie, we could work on that if you wanted
to put that in the zine show.
Evan Hines, another artist from Terra
did tarot cards too that I want to check out too
that I'm excited about.
They're amazing.
She's going to send me those photos this afternoon
of the things that they--
she took pictures of all of them and yeah.
There's so much great art at Tierra.
It's amazing.
Tune in next week for the wonderful walk-through
of the gallery with Paige and showing Jackie's solo show.
Yes.
Yeah.
Jackie's going to be there and we're
going to do a live gallery walk-through of Jackie's show,
which is ceramics and drawings.
We sold another piece yesterday, Jackie.
That's great.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
Paige, could you tell us really briefly
a little bit about the collaboration between Tierra
del Sol and the gallery?
Actually, the gallery is Tierra del Sol's gallery now.
So I used to have my own gallery and then decided to close that.
And then Tierra took over my lease
and hired me to run their gallery.
So it's their gallery now.
And so I curate from the artist at Tierra.
Excellent.
Could you put the link in the chat?
Yeah.
Thank you.
We're coming up on--
it's been about a year and a half
coming up on two years for the gallery.
Excellent.
Yeah.
And Jackie's show is there right now,
and we're open by appointments.
And Pete is our gallery manager that
works with Paige in the Chinatown gallery.
Excellent.
Visit us.
We're really funny and we love talking about the work.
Don't forget our Instagram too.
We have Instagram for the gallery and for the studios,
and you get to know more about our artists
in all kinds of ways.
I know we're getting near the end of our time,
and we definitely want to be cognizant of everyone's time.
Roman just put a link to a very short survey
we'd appreciate that you fill out if you have a moment.
We would love that.
It just helps us to plan for the future.
And of course.
Paige has also put a link to the gallery in there.
But I really want to- a huge thanks to Jackie, to Katie.
Rebecca and Paige and Lauren and Laura,
Pete, the team at Tierra del Sol,
thank you so much for being here today and assisting.
It's been really wonderful to spend time with y'all, and I
hope you'll keep making zines.
Thank you everybody.
Bye everybody.
Great to see you.
Thank you Wignall and Chaffey.
It was wonderful.