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Be cooperative and honest. . +Once you have d characier picked o], overyono arab a shoet of A paperand secretlj draws the nharamer}hm the best of their ability. The & : SusT Sfrusish quality of the drawing is not important, the details of the character are. &~ When someona figishes their drawing, they place itin the center of the ¢ table, face down. {Vhen everyone has done that, someone shuffes the 5 drawings and flpsithem over, one at a time. E +Then everyone sprulinizes the drawings and votes on the one that they 4 think looks THE LEAST lie the characier. Voling is done by placing you'5, . pencil on the one E«?n you think is the most wrong. Remember, do not 3 judge the drawings for their arlistic qualty, but instead for their accuracy s DO ria'r LOOK UP THE imuucrek YETH! H e + When you have & loser, everyone mugt reveal which drawing is theirs. & Now you can lookup the character if yo want to. The loser must write their name on their drawing (for the halllof shame) and write down what they were attempting to draw (sometimes you can't tell) Then the loser gets their drawingtaitooed on themselvps, with the name of the cartoon character under iie tattoo. Some people woni't be willng (o get a tattoo, or o even play the game ifthey know ey might end up with a tattoo, so You can also play With a permanent matker instead. In either case, one of the better arist3 at the table wil either tattoo or draw the losers rioon, just as they drew it, on the losdrs skin, preferably in a highly le place. 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PSP LEMaT AN ORMIHL TA, T 767 1T whs b To ARG JoR 173 S AL Gyt o B Skl e HALF century ago, LA-based artistand Black Arts Movement icon Betye Saar created as semblages that challenged racist and sexist African American stereotypes. To paraphrase a popular sign from this year's many wom.- en's marches: It hard tobe- Tieve she sull has to protest hisstufr. AL90, Saar has made eareer of empowering the denigrated and vulnerable, most notably black wom- en. Her pieces often de- pict mammy dolls in acts of defiance: Aunt Jemima, n Saar's representation, is a warrior and revolution- ary freed from her status as hé face of a pancalke mix, (In 19726 The Liberation of Aunt Jemima, one of Saar's most acclaimed works, the maminy stands in front of syrup labels,carryingarile in one hand and a broom in the other) Washboards, 100, e prevalent in Saar's art Since the '90s and ase- ently'as this year, she has turned the ribbed panels into emblems of struggle, €ach festooned with Jim Crow-era imagery. Nearly two dozen of them are on display in Betye Saar: Keep- i It Clean, which opens May 28 ai the Craft & Folk. Art Museu. Born in Los Angeles in 1926, Saar grew up in Pas- adena but spent the sum-- mers with her grandmoth- 2 in Walts. There she watched as Simon Rodia sorled through scrap materias and debris, carefully hoasing pieces (o construct his Watts Towers. Ro- Jia's methods, along with those o other assemblage Metists like 1. A’ Tohn Ontterhrides and Nesh Buri. WASHBOARD ASSEMBLAGES BY BETYE SAAR ON DISPLAY AT THE CRAFT & FOLK ART MUSEUM, CONFRONT RACISM HEAD-ON foy as well as New York Joseph Cornell influence the aesthetic that Saar | Known for today. Her scul tares are In the collectior of many major America ‘museums, from LACM and MOCA to the Smiths nian and the Metropolit Museum of Art ‘This month's CAFA? exhibition i the first e (Coast survey of her was} board collages. As curats Holly Jerger explains, t assemblages are as muc ‘about poorly paid labor & they are about the determ nation to support onese despitethe income inequa ity that exists “historica Iy and today” Saar mines collection of found object ‘and loaded imagery—ph tographic pieces, say, po traying black women ¢ ‘work or black men playin ‘banjos—piled high in he Laurel Canyon studio an 24ds them 10 the vintag metal toos. “Betye Saar is a grio says Karon Davi, cofoun er of the Undergroun Museum art space in A lington Heights. (She's Il ening Saar to the trave ing West African barc who were keepers of co lective memory) “Her a semblages are as rich 5umbo and will always as sacred as our Sout ern hymns” Saar mig! agree; she's described h work as a way of “delvin Into the past and reachir into the future simultaneously” In the sculptur lining the walls of CAFAM, reics of an unjust s tem are turned into a Kind of Incantation, th active and insistent variety that we might call d S not jug RGeSt is o o SVing, i 9965ted b AT Sreaallinas You wil land your cream Job pofih and anthracil under e fov regimes g 20 ‘a#¥> project. Its good pay for a luxury commonty e ) 2 oa! cantafford...but ey g ki k e oot Y, we all can't be developmental w4 ; pists al a noNproit for abandoned anineale T . = ':»j'; o iiso an i vas by 1 S londe, 5 100 : In repentance they only show realty of mplantee T e o beat. You will be binge watching as you confuse b wead sl VH1= very high one = varity P o o fi