Weight of Small Things: A Watercolor Still Life Workshop

​This workshop starts with a simple prompt: bring an object that carries weight for you, something small enough to hold in your hand, but heavy with memory.

Led by artist Priyam Jancosko, bring a piece of jewelry you inherited, a masala tin that traveled with your family, a good luck charm, or something passed down that you still use without thinking about it. Whatever it is, bring it. We will paint it together and talk about why it matters.

No painting experience needed. Materials are provided. The conversation is as much the point as the work.

This workshop is rooted in South Asian themes of migration, memory, and the objects that quietly carry our histories across borders and generations. It is open to anyone who feels a connection to those themes, through their own background, their family, or simply their curiosity.

With your consent, your object and painting can become part of a small digital archive after the workshop, a page where each object's photo opens to reveal the painting made of it, and the story behind it in your own words. A small object, painted and remembered, becomes something others can carry too.

​SAWCC is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to the advancement, visibility, and development of emerging and established South Asian womxn artists and creative professionals.

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​These programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.