Breaking & Rebuilding: International Women’s Day Workshop
This International Women’s Day, Women of Culture is partnering with Less Than Half to present a Kintsugi-inspired workshop led by multidisciplinary artist Lara Alcantara Lansberg.
Through guided reflection, movement, and expressive art, participants will explore themes of release, resilience, and transformation.
We often fear breaking, yet in breaking, we discover new forms, strength, and beauty. This workshop invites you to reclaim your broken pieces, honor your journey, and turn pain into power. Like in life, our cracks and scars don’t diminish us—they make us unique, resilient, and beautiful.
It's all about letting go of the past, embracing imperfection, and turning brokenness into beauty all while surrounded by fellow art-lovers, patrons and collectors in a beautiful artist's loft.
In addition to this beautiful art & healing journey, participants will also be treated to bites from Shiloh foods, beverages by Simple Life Matcha and an olive oil tasting by Poly Olive oil. Plus a limited edition screen-printed tote full of goodies from Flowers Atelier, Eaton Botanicals and Sundays Studio.
💛 Are you ready to break, release, and rebuild with love? Join us for this one-of-a-kind creative healing experience.
What to Expect:
✨ Guided Meditation – We begin with a grounding meditation, bringing awareness inward to connect with our emotions, stories, and creative energy.
📖 Journaling on Plates – Using ceramic plates as our canvas, we write down thoughts, fears, dreams, and anything we need to release—giving our emotions a tangible form.
💥 Breaking as Release – With intention, we shatter the plates with a hammer—symbolizing the act of letting go, breaking free from what no longer serves us.
🎨 Creating from the Pieces – In a process inspired by Kintsugi (the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold), we take our shattered pieces and transform them into stunning, meaningful artworks using paint, gold leaf, and resin.
🖼 Shadow Box Keepsake – Each participant will assemble their artwork into a beautiful shadow box—a reminder that growth, healing, and transformation come from embracing our brokenness.
Event Schedule & Details
Time: 11:00am – 3:00pm
Location: Tyler Loftis Studio, Tribeca (exact location provided upon RSVP)
Tickets:
Non-members: $120 bird through 3/1; $130 full price
Women of Culture Art-full basic members*: $110 bird through 3/1; $120 full price
*Premier Art-full members save an additional 20%.
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Includes all materials: resin, shadow boxes, instruction and guidance, gold leaf plates (or you may bring your own plate if preferred).
++ A goody bag full of amazing products from our sponsors!
More about Lara:
Lara Alcantara Lansberg is a Venezuelan-American multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Working across photography, installation, performance, sculpture, and site-specific interventions, her practice explores identity, intimacy, resilience, and the emotional labor embedded in womanhood. Blending humor, conceptual rigor, and elements of magical realism, her work often transforms personal experience into collective reflection.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions in New York, Miami, Paris, Spain, and Venezuela. She has shown at venues such as the International Center of Photography Museum, Lehman College’s The Female Gaze, The Other Art Fair Brooklyn, BWAC in Red Hook, and Art N Folly Gallery in Miami. She is the recipient of awards including the Julia Margaret Cameron Gala Award and Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA).
In recent years, Alcantara Lansberg’s practice has expanded beyond photography into immersive installation and participatory works. During and following the COVID-19 pandemic, she turned inward, using the body, domestic space, and material transformation as tools for survival and meaning-making. Her current work incorporates ceramics, broken porcelain, gold leaf, resin, and site-specific assembly—often referencing repair, rupture, and ritual—as a way to explore healing as both a personal and communal act.
Through her multidisciplinary approach, Alcantara Lansberg creates spaces that invite viewers into moments of vulnerability, reflection, and transformation, positioning art not only as an object to observe, but as an experience to inhabit.