Breaking Rag: A Veteran, Family & Community Art Project, 2016-2018 (Archival Site)
Trish Brownlee launched the Breaking Rag art project in 2016. This veteran, family & community art project created opportunities for art-making workshops and interactions between military, veterans and their communities. Breaking Rag operated in Fayetteville, NC until September of 2018, when Trish's art practice/studio was lost in Hurricane Florence. This site remains an archive of the Breaking Rag project.
Trish Brownlee launched the Breaking Rag art project in 2016. This veteran, family & community art project created opportunities for art-making workshops and interactions between military, veterans and their communities. Breaking Rag operated in Fayetteville, NC until September of 2018, when Trish's art practice/studio was lost in Hurricane Florence. This site remains an archive of the Breaking Rag project.
Creating Community Connections Through Art.
Breaking Rag operated from 206-2018 in Fayetteville, NC is a veteran, family, and community art project, facilitated by veteran/artist Trish Brownlee, serving Fort Bragg and surrounding counties. "Breaking Rag" is a term in papermaking, referring to the physical process of breaking fibers into pulp, from which the paper is made.
Breaking Rag offered public demos and workshops to the military, veterans, their families, and to the community, specializing in creating paper and artwork from worn military uniforms, re-purposed materials, and raw plant fiber. Using a mobile papermaking studio, we were capable of creating art-making spaces almost anywhere! This was possible thanks to the Oracle Portable Hollander Beater made by Lee McDonald. The goal of these workshops served to create safe spaces for community art-making and open conversation. Through art, we are able to break through assumptions and stereotypes and find real connection. Breaking Rag operated in Fayetteville, NC until September of 2018, when Trish's art practice/studio was lost in Hurricane Florence.
This site remains an archive of the Breaking Rag project. Thank you to all who supported this work along the way.
Breaking Rag offered public demos and workshops to the military, veterans, their families, and to the community, specializing in creating paper and artwork from worn military uniforms, re-purposed materials, and raw plant fiber. Using a mobile papermaking studio, we were capable of creating art-making spaces almost anywhere! This was possible thanks to the Oracle Portable Hollander Beater made by Lee McDonald. The goal of these workshops served to create safe spaces for community art-making and open conversation. Through art, we are able to break through assumptions and stereotypes and find real connection. Breaking Rag operated in Fayetteville, NC until September of 2018, when Trish's art practice/studio was lost in Hurricane Florence.
This site remains an archive of the Breaking Rag project. Thank you to all who supported this work along the way.
Breaking Rag: A Veteran, Family & Community Art Project, 2016-2018 (Archival Site)
This site remains an archive of the Breaking Rag project. Thank you to all who supported this work along the way.
This site remains an archive of the Breaking Rag project. Thank you to all who supported this work along the way.