VISITING ARTIST: RICHELLE SHADOAN with Avatars, Masking & Making Space for Ourselves Join us @Revision_SanDiego La Mesa on Saturday, November 14, from 1–4 PM for an afternoon of disability-centered art, conversation, and community with artist Richelle Shadoan (@redscorpiomade). Richelle’s ceramic sculptures explore the experience of ADHD and autistic masking through human figures with masked, tree-stump-like heads. Her work gives physical form to the ways disabled and neurodivergent people may alter, hide, or reshape parts of themselves in order to navigate a world that isn’t always built for them. Her practice also includes full-scale wearable tree-stump masks, inviting us to think about what we put on, what we take off, what we reveal, and who we get to be when we feel safe enough to stop masking. 1–2 PM | Artist Talk Richelle will share about her own experience with disability and how it shapes her life and artistic practice. Later, during a community activity, she’ll also guide us in thinking about our own “avatars." 2–4 PM | Community Art Activity We’ll turn those ideas into clay finger puppets made from recycled clay. Create your own avatar: a version of yourself, a masked self, an unmasked self, a creature, a protector, or something you don’t have words for yet. There’s no right way to represent disability, identity, or yourself. This is an opportunity to explore, play, and make alongside other members of our disability and neurodivergent community. Come listen. Come make. Come as you are. Saturday, November 14 1 PM–4 PM Revision La Mesa 8691 La Mesa Blvd • Open to all • Drop-in, no RSVP required • Free to participate • $10 fee only for those who would like their finger-puppet fired and finished This program was made possible by funding from the Foundation for Developmental Disabilities @foundationfordd Take MTS! Closest stop La Mesa Blvd & Glen St. Visit: https://www.revisionsandiego.com/events
