The Home Project recognizes and celebrates the idea of Home. It is wonderfully inclusive and open ended. When asked to come up with an idea of what Home means or is, participants in the project thus far have evoked a range of sentiment as well as subject. Home could be conjured up in text, as a meal, as a physical structure, as a room, as a chair, as a yard or a stoop, or even a smell.

The Home Project is a massive printing project. The workshop can be brought to schools, shelters, community centers, soup kitchens, assisted living spaces, or hospitals. Participants will brainstorm and visualize what Home means to them. Collagraph plates will be explained, built, and printed using simple materials. We then print the collagraph plates in a variety of ways, allowing the group to understand the beauty and versatility of the process. This can also include printing collaboratively on larger papers, several homes together constituting a neighborhood.

Participants keep all of the prints produced during the workshop, but I will keep the plates for further printing. I want to take and mesh all these ideas of home into larger prints containing many plates, creating new communities and overlapping social strata. These prints typically take on housing issues such as redesigning, rezoning, and gentrification, yet they can also speak to memory and nostalgia.

The Home Project workshops can be scheduled through email: ellencolemanizzo@gmail.com.
These workshop can be held at PrintSpace or at a host site.
Workshops run for 3 hours at $60. Groups over 4 people add $10 per person materials fee.