The Workers’ Rug/La Alfombra Del Trabajador is an art project done by day laborers, organizers affiliated with IDEPSCA, artist Katie Bachler and Jade Thacker, and the Craft and Folk Art Museum. Bachler and Thacker wanted to use a rug as a space for social sculpture and call it the Roving Rag Rug. They acquired and programmed it into the Collective Show back in 2011. Later, they put out collection boxes for worn clothes around East and North East LA. They’d hoped to weave this stuff into there own rug. “Roving Rag Rug” contained in it a contradiction that became clear for the artists sorting through the donations. While the rug might “rove,” each piece of clothes contained traces of the particular life that had just habituated it. The tension between a free space rug, and one sited to a particular working body was settled with Heidi Zeller. She showed up at one of the artists’ rug weaving sessions. Zeller is the director of the Craft And Folk Art Musuem’s Folk Art Everywhere…
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