Yarne_Projects with People
(Ongoing) Grant High School Screen Printing Program
(Ongoing) Grant High School Asian Pacific Islander Alliance
Wisdom Workshops
Strawberry Social
Wise Men + Women Say
Motivation Maps
The Soft and Sometimes Silent ‘E’: 15 People Pronouncing “Oregon”
First Grade Re-Creation of Marina Abramovic’s The Artist is Present
Wonder: Microphotography Collage Installation
The Future: Community Collaboration
Joy Fest 2016
Lost Parks
Teenage Interviews on Love
Spirit Photography: A study in Shutterspeed
Change History: Historical Photo Collage
SPACE Superheroes/ Alter Egos Pirates!
Twenty Minutes of Wikipedia
PAPER PORTLUCK POOL PARTY
Fifty People Project
Wisdom Workshop Project
A collaboration with Joni Kimoto, Lauren Yoshiko Terry, and Kapiolani LeeWisdom Workshops is a series of multigenerational, hands-on workshops partnering small businesses, history organizations, and elders and aunties in sharing histories and traditions of different themes in Old Town Portland. Led by BIPOC matriarchs, patriarchs, and elders from com
munities with ties to the neighborhood, the gatherings offer a chance to center underrepresented histories, share skills and stories across different cultures and ages, and utilize making as a catalyst for creating new community.
Recognizing BIPOC elders as cultural workers, bearers of wisdom, and pioneers in sustainability- this project aims to recognize the rich history of marginalized groups building community in Old Town and beyond.
This project takes inspiration from the radical invitation found in communal kitchens- where an active role is found for even the clumsiest of hands, and how organic story share conjures a mix of retellings/history/myth in which past and future find connections. How might newcomers become collaborators in community healing?
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Strawberry Social
2022, A collaboration with Amisa Chiu, Jaclyn Nakashima and Janine ShinodaHood Strawberry season is a very short and miraculous time during the early summer. When I was younger, my mother would sometimes take my brother and I strawberry picking. I don’t remember it being leisurely. We would compare how full our buckets were to measure speed, Brian being too slow since he would eat so many.
According to the Japanese American National Museum, at one time pre-WWII JAs farmed 90% of strawberries in Oregon. As children, my parents would board a bus during the summers to pick strawberries for local farms. It’s a shared experience for many locals of their generation, especially for Japanese and Chinese Americans.
My mother’s pies are my very favorite dessert. She makes two kinds a year- apple pie in the winter and strawberry pie in the summer. The strawberry pie is mostly berry with a thin layer of cream cheese separating the berry juice from the pie crust, only Hood berries.
Strawberry Social was a June celebration of strawberry season and activation of strawberry memory. Taking place at Ikoi No Kai Senior Lunch Program, participants exchanged stories about their relationship with strawberries while sharing strawberry desserts and screen printing tenugui (summer multipurpose towels).
Supported by Ikoi No Kai & Metro and Living Arts.
Motivation Maps
After a reading of Robert Fritz’s essay, Motivation. After study of David Byrne’s Tree Drawings. Teenagers mapped their motivation.