Collective Collage Library Launch
Help start a collective collage library.
At this gathering, we’ll begin a new set of collaging books that will circulate among community members.
Based on Expression Journals—spaces for reflection, play, storytelling, and visual conversation—developed by Lily Ova and Maiti Wood. Each journal will hold traces of many hands and hearts, offering a way to express what’s moving through us and to feel into connection across time and community.
Please bring a thrifted hardcover book to donate to the collage library and use to create the first entry in this pop-up space.
You’ll be guided in how to make a book into an Expression Journal, then invited to swap books and continue working in one ahead of the next Gift Share. These journals will be exchanged again at future Gift Shares hosted by Gifting Grove, slowly becoming layered records of shared creativity and care.
Some paper-craft materials will be available on site, and you’re welcome to bring your favorite art supplies if you have them.
🌿 This event & program is part of Gifting Grove’s Gift Share Series, which offers skill shares in action while defining our skills and what we have to offer as gifts. When we name what is given as a gift, we cultivate deeper gratitude for what is created and shared. In return, we feel more called to care for what we receive and to reciprocate in meaningful ways.
About the Organizers
Gifting Grove is a nonprofit dedicated to creating tangible opportunities to participate in a gift economy where living becomes inherently sustainable, joyful, and rooted in connection. Through events like this, we invite people to explore a culture where value is measured not by what you consume, but by what you give and share. Our intention is to support you in giving and receiving the gifts of yourself, of others, and of the natural world.
Sustain Studio is a creative facilitation and intentional convening hub tending ways of being that sustain life. Sustain's founder, Lillie Benowitz (she/they), is an experienced creative facilitator and spiritual tender, offering spaces for expression, meaning-making and connection in these times.
Lily Ova is a patch worker specializing in human connections.
Maiti Wood (she/her) is a multi-media artist who specializes in charcoal and apparel. Her work explores the abstract world of growth.