 I think we are ready for art and celebration. Good afternoon. Hello everyone, welcome. My name is Joseph and I'm a Youth Librarian for San Francisco Public Library. This is our second program with our amazing partners at the Museum of African Diaspora or MOAD. Thank you MOAD. For today's workshop, you will need a few supplies that you can easily find in your home. My friends and colleagues behind the scene that makes our presentation today happen will share the supply list in the chat. We are so happy you are here with us to continue more than a month, which is how we celebrate Black History Month at San Francisco Public Library. We call our celebration more than a month in an effort to emphasize the reflection, open dialogue, interdisciplinary education and shared advocacy needs to take place in our communities during Black History Month as well as all year round. Check out the more than a month webpage of San Francisco Public Library to see our upcoming events, our amazing book list and much, much more. And speaking of upcoming events, we hope that you can join us next week when acclaimed author Jason Reynolds speaks as this year's the Effie Lee Morris Lecture Series offered in partnership among SFPL's Main Children's Center, SFPL's African American Center, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library and the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. Wiener of the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award for New Talent, 2017 NAACP Image Award and multiple other honors, author Jason Reynolds spent last year, 2020, serving as the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, sharing his transformative journey as a writer and a reader with youth during a year previously unimaginable transformation. Join us for a landmark lecture and a creative exploration of the theme of transformation. And be prepared to be transformed. Before we start, a huge thanks to the Friends of SFPL for their generous support of this special Make-Do Series. We can't do this without them. And without further ado, let me welcome Sadeg Ubreyes, Education Program Manager. Sadeg born in Ethiopia is a multidisciplinary artist, educator and beekeeping enthusiast. Her creative work and teaching style are greatly influenced by the wonderful visual artists, theater performers and storytellers of our childhood community. And please let's give a warm welcome to Sadeg. Thank you, Joseph. Thank you so much. I think you do such an amazing job of introducing this program. And thank you for, and introducing me. And thank you for San Francisco Public Library for inviting Moad to do this workshop with you. I'm pretty excited. And I will share my screen in just a second. Oops, that might not my email. Sorry, I'll be right here. And we'll start in just a second. Joseph, are you able to see my screen just fine? Yes. Okay, perfect. Welcome everyone. My name is Sadeg Ubreyes and I am the Education Program Manager at Museum of the African Diaspora. And I'm just thrilled to lead this activity with you. I have a couple of things that I have to, we need to do before we start our workshop. This is mainly an image transfer workshop with a male art twist. So we'll get to that in just a minute. Before that, I would like to ask, I would like to invite everyone to just take a deep breath and stand in solidarity with me with Black Lives Matter. Thank you. As many of us are settler, immigrants or descendants of those forcefully brought to this continent, our institutions were founded upon exclusions and erasures of the Indigenous peoples whose land we are located. With deep respect, my life knowledge is that even in virtual space, our people, our work and our network servers are our native lands. And thank the Indigenous people of the Bay Area who have sorted this land throughout the generations. Thank you, everyone. So male art, who is ready to do some male art? And I would say this workshop is mostly about image transfer, but then it will give us enough materials to do male art after we leave this workshop. And I'll show you, I'll give examples and we have plenty of time to do the workshop. Oh, by the way, you know, I was so happy to find this image of James Baldwin. This is a letter that he sent to his family. My love to all of you, see soon, Jamie. And I have never seen his name as Jamie. So it was really nice to see it here. And he's a prominent writer, civil rights activist. And in so many things that he has done and we also can thank him for helping the success of other writers such as Maya Angel. Now, if we talk about James Baldwin, we can go on forever. But I know we are with San Francisco Public Library. You can find books and a bunch of resources about him. And as a background of this schedule, you see his letter as well that was written to his sister. But today we'll have an introduction which we're halfway through. We'll show some examples of letters and we will start, this is not a drawing project. It's a transfer project. So my mistake on that one will do Q&A and closing. But what we have to decide it also is that if you have any questions at any point during the workshop, you can just let us know in, Joseph will help me get the questions. And it's Joseph. How many of you, I can't see anyone. So if you raise your hands, I will not know. How many of you have written a letter in the last six months or sent a postcard? All right, I can see you raised hands. Oh, nice. Oh wow, okay. That's fantastic. Wow, that's really great. Some of us have deemed that art kind of gone, but I'm so glad that we're keeping it going. This image that you see in front of you is an addressed envelope from James Baldwin to his sister, Paula Baldwin. The envelope was set from Robert College and it's a private high school located in Istanbul in Turkey. So he's sending this to his sister and we can see how it was when it was dated and when it was the stamp there. And you can also see the date stamp. So it's important to save these envelopes as well. And we know that where it says para avión, it means air mail. It's by airplane, it's air mail. So it probably took a while, but not as long as it would have taken had it been sent by ship. And we see other letters also that James Baldwin had written. And it's just, I just wanted to share this important person in American history, this important writer, how nice it is to see his name and his handwriting to a letter. Most of the time letters are intimate and important. And sometimes we even write our secrets in letters. So yeah, so I'm going to point that out. All right, before I go on too much, I talked too much about James Baldwin. We're going to do image transfer today. We're going to get messy. So if you have tablecloths or other things, I just know that it's going to be a bit messy, a bit wet. So just to keep that in mind. And just to talk about types of image transfer techniques, how many of you worked with Mod Podge? I love Mod Podge and they're not paying me to say this, but I love Mod Podge. And there are other ways of transferring. We use glue and other ways. I see Nicky, yep, Joseph. I see folks that have used Moshposh for image transfer. Other ways of transferring images is as early 19th century, you can see how they were transferring images is by pressing two, one plain surface on top of image on a plain surface and pressing it on and then peeling it off. And you can see that on the transfer tablet image. And then you can see over here cyanotype, which is a blueprint essentially, is as a photographic printing process that produces cyan blueprint and it uses light. So this is an algae or algae. I don't know how, depends on how you say it. And engineers used to process this process into the 20th century and it's a low cost process. And oftentimes we see this also they sell them in packets, you can take them outside and you put something on top like your car key or something and the image is transferred. Today, the transfer we're going to do is not gonna require any of these things. We're just gonna use water, soap, clear tape and then the brown paper is for our letter. So that has nothing, not much to do with the transfer. Pages from magazines, newspapers and other printing media, which are also products of image transfers. Printing is just an act of image transfer. Although it's a bit complicated in a way of technology. Scissors, paper towel, I realized that I don't have my paper towel, but I'll go, I'll get it. Yep, there it is, okay. And then liquid soap, if you don't have it, that's also not necessarily, it's not the most important ingredient in this list of materials. Cutting board, that's optional. If you have a table that can hold water, that's fine. And or water will not destroy, that's fine. And tablespoon, that's also optional. Great. These are some of my transfers, transfer, sorry, not yet. We're not ready to start yet, it just jumped. So these are some of my transfer images and these are images that I've cut out of a magazine, put on tape, wash the paper pulp from the back of them, have dried them, while they maintain their adhesive nature, I transform into another object like cups or vase, but now we're going to do mail art. Great, I'm gonna set up my workspace. And while I do that, I will post the material list. So you can go and grab those. We'll be about two minutes. Does anyone have any questions? Yay, I hear Sherman elementaries in the house. Awesome. Great, okay, thank you, Justice. Oh, sideways, but we'll be able to see. Yeah, hi, Sidney. So we have two questions. One question is, is this similar to deco-podge, right? It is very similar to deco-podge without actually using any of the other, any mosh-podge or any other things, we just use water. So it's very similar to deco-podge, yes. And then second question, does Matt Gel work as well as Mod-podge, Mod-podge? Yes, it does. It does, mosh-podge is basically a brand name. And so you could use Matt Gel for transfer as well. It really depends, you might want to use, you might want to use inkjet printed surfaces. This one, the easiest thing is that any image that has been printed on paper could work for this one. But for mosh-podge, I prefer something that's been printed on inkjet paper. See, it's still sideways. So let's see if we can turn this out, let's see there. So I've got, if you don't have packing tape, sorry, my camera is kind of turning all over the place. Yeah, that's perfect. So if you don't have the big packaging tape, as I do here, you can use the small tape. And you can layer it to make it to cover a large surface. And I'll show you what I mean by that. The first thing we're going to do is we're gonna grab our magazines. I have an old Essence Magazine here. I have read and reread. So it's time to go, for it, it's time to go into other creative uses. My screen is a little blurry, but I'll get there. There we go. So this is some old magazine. If you can select images out of it, I really like this one. This person looks really happy. And start cutting images. If you've already cut images, you can add more or you can wait for us to catch up to you. I'm just gonna cut. And it doesn't have to be cut to shape in such a way. Hi, Siday. Yes. Everybody's wondering about that gray rectangle shape. Is that something, is that a zoom thing? It is, it's my camera. Oh, it's your camera. Yeah, it's my camera. I am so sorry. It's, I'm sharing my workspace with a camera. So it's from my iPad. Oh, right. It's for your privacy. The yellow, yeah. Okay. Yeah, sorry. Thank you for noticing though. I hope it's not getting in the way of folks seeing. How is it? I think it's disappeared now. So I, let me keep this one. And what I do and what I suggest to other people to do is for collaging in any type of work that you do with magazine images or newspapers to have a Ziploc bag or a plastic bag like this where you keep all the images. So you can go back to them and you can choose whichever ones you want to use. I also teach a workshop on collaging without glue. So that helps for that. There's one image transfer that I have done as an example. If you already have images cut out, we'll jump to the next. We've got some letters. This is an envelope that is, you know, the old school. It is an envelope and it is a letter and it's all in one. And this is a letter from my father. I don't know when was this sent? Probably, you know, 10 years ago or so. But anyway, this is a letter that was sent to me. So I'm just, I'm also gonna incorporate some of the letters that I have received from my father in this one. You can see some of the stamps from my letters that you can remove these stamps and use them for these, just letter art. You can just lift some of them up or soak them in soap water and use them. So there's so much you can do. So for the images, how many images to cut out? It's really up to you. If you have small images, I would say about four or five. But remember, the point of this activity is not to finish. It's merely to get started. And so if you don't finish, if you don't transfer all of your images, you'll do it later. It's not a problem. If you are the kind of person that likes to watch first and then do later, that is also absolutely fine. So I would say five small images. If you have one large image, you can also just work with that. And is tearing the images okay? Oh, that is actually perfect. And that reminds me, one of the things that I use to tear is I use a strategy ruler. And you can tear just like that, just with your hands. No problem. I also like to do this. So you can get that kind of jagged edge at the end. It's not perfect. So you can use that. So there's so many ways of doing this. It does not have to be perfect. It only has to be perfect for you. And does it make a difference if you cut out the images from matte paper versus glossy paper? You know what? Glossy paper works really well, but I would also like you to try matte paper as well. You might actually find that it has such an interesting effect. Some of the words might show, but maybe not the images, but maybe part of the images in this has that sort of ambiguous look to it. So you might actually like that. I want to also share with folks that the 2020 catalog had voices of the Harlem Renaissance catalog for the postal office had the voice of Harlem Renaissance. And out of that, I cut out these stamps. You see the Snow Day right here. It was written by a black writer. You can see so many important images, important historical figures in black history. So I cut those out and I transfer them. So speaking of male art, this is US postal office. Also, it doesn't necessarily have to be faces or animals or anything like that. So it could just be patterns like this, just lines and it could just be just words as well. So I'm going to start the transfer process. The most exciting part is toward the end, but now I'm going to take my tape and the tape has to be overlapped. So the tape has to overlap just a little bit if you want one sheet of transfer. And you can do it from top to bottom or left to right. So it's not any set rules about that. So you see how I'm going to overlap it just a little bit. Like that, I'm covering my smiley face. One of your images, you can go ahead and cover the image with tape. Make sure that the tape overlaps. Be ready for the most exciting part of this activity. Another question is how big should the brown paper be? Not big at all. It is actually while we soak our art is I'm going to show you. I'm just going to cut it to the size of the letter that I showed you. And it's just going to be cut out to this size. So probably, let me say about four inches. I'm five inches by three inches. Yeah, just about, yeah. Five inches by three inches or not a whole lot. All right, thank you. You're welcome. Brown my paper towel because I got a little messy with most artists. And this is my bowl, my glass bowl. I chose a glass bowl because I would like you to see it. You do not have to have a glass bowl. Any kind of bowl would work. A large bowl is preferable, but this could also work. I'm going to pour, I have some soap in there. Just two drops of soap, not a lot, two drops of soap. And I'm going to add water. I'm going to use a little bit smaller. I'll use this as my cell phone cover on cups. And I'll show you some samples as well of how you can do that. This is the image. It's covered in, sorry, the brightness of my cameras. All right, I don't know if you can see. You can see that it's overlapped. The tape is overlapped. I'll put it into the soap. And I'm going to submerge it into the water. Is it possible if you move it to the left a little bit? Absolutely. Thank you so that we can see it. Thank you. You're welcome. So it's, while it's soaking, what we can do is get your paper bag, and the brown paper bag goes through that. I'm just cutting it from left to right just because this is the thinner part of it. And I can save the bottom part for my trash bin or my scraps. I can save the lower part. So I can just cut the top part, save the bottom part. Questions regarding the soaking part? Yeah. How do you soak it? And do you soak the outsides of the paper? Just one side, if you immerse it totally, that's a great question. If you immerse it totally, just one side is enough. The tape side up, facing you, or facing up would be better. And as the time really depends, it really depends how you can test it is by rubbing kind of like this. And if that image comes off, if the pulp of the paper comes off easily, then it's ready. I like to soak it for about five minutes. I've had some ready in just a minute. It's really interesting. I see two in there. Oops, that one's a bit delayed because we need where this is going, right? And someone requests to slow down a little bit. You got it. Thank you. Yep, no problem. And I remember the soap in the water was two drops, approximately two drops. There's two small drops. If you don't have soap, this soap just speeds up the process because it makes the paper softer. Otherwise, if you don't have soap, it's absolutely fine. You can do it with just water. It's just water. And thank you for that. And while you're busy cutting your paper, someone wants to share that there is a SEP Correspondence Co-op, is a male art and a Correspondence Group that meets monthly through the SEPL. Oh, that's great. I did not know about that thing. So thank you so much. Make a note. How's everyone doing? Hopefully, creating wonderful things. You might do one more in this book. Folks are working on their transcripts. A lot of landscape. And this is what we're not going to try to do this week. This time, I will use the smaller tape. So if you have smaller tape, this is... I don't know what you guys are doing. I always think that we have Sherman Ohman through Jonas today. Today? Yes. Do you mind moving it to the left side again? Sure. We can't see. I think you're just taping the images, right? Yes. Are you not able to see? Yeah. I think it's that rectangle. But I think you're just... This is your second image with the tape. Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. I wish I could do it horizontally. I can try. And we have questions also about the brown paper. Yeah. Someone wants to know what we will be doing with the paper. The brown paper? Yeah. The brown paper is the base for after we make our transfers. And I'll show you quickly with my already made transfer work on the paper. I'll show you how I will be taping it on. So it's already... The adhesive is on it. So I don't need to tape it again. So I will use it just like this. You can decorate it with a letter and then we fold it and make it an envelope on its own. And if there's images, this is from a grocery shop that prints on their bags. If you have images, you can also work with those images and put a stamp, put adverse here, and your adverse here, the person's adverse here, and you can send it to them. You can just take it right here. And this is a complete letter. And then this is inspired by a letter that came from Ethiopia, which is in East Africa, from my father, which is on the back. It's a letter. And when you fold it, it's an envelope. It's an envelope and a letter at the same time. That's right. It's so cool. Yeah. Yeah. And most things, it's already comes with a paid stamp. It's something that you buy from a post office. Since we're not going to do that right now, we're going to make our own. The top is for your... The top is for your address. The bottom, the bottom right is for the address of the person you're going to send it to. So that's what we're doing. And I wonder who you're going to send this to. Family, friends. I remember back when I was younger, we had penthouse. I remember when you were going to send this letter to your teacher, friend, your sweetheart. Yeah. So is it possible to work on the left side of, so that people can fully see the, what's going on? The left side? The left side or wherever you're working. So it's away from... That's perfect right there actually. Okay. I can convene it for you. Yeah, it works. I can make it work. Yeah. Awesome. Thank you. You're welcome. So this is my second image. I'll use the same water. I'll use the same water. Just a little bit. You can use the same bowl. Hopefully we have a larger bowl than mine. This is just to show you. I'm going to get this one out because I think it's just been in the house. So while I'm there, right over the bowl, I'm just going to roll my fingers. I'm going to roll the paper. You see how the paper just comes off? Just comes off. Just like that. And the image stays. That's what we call transfer. Because the image gets transferred onto the plastic. Onto the tape. And the paper just comes right off. It's very satisfying to watch. I think it's very exciting here. I'm going to go ahead and put it on the tape. And sometimes you can just rub it in this way. Mine has soap. So that's why it's easier to just slide right off. And this is my trash. I recycle it. So there you have it. And it's transparent. Perhaps you can see my hand. You can put it on the tape. You can put it on the tape. You can put it on the tape. You can put it underneath. You can put it on the window. But for the purpose of this activity, we're going to put it on our letter. What I would do is I would let it dry. First. Before. Before I put it on. My brown paper letter. The brown paper is a thicker. It's a thicker paper. That's a great question. I love these questions. For that, what I would advise is to let the image dry on the cutting board that I suggested. So if you have a cutting board, let the image dry face down the adhesive side. Excuse me. On the cutting board and have it dry. And then when you realize that it's dry and it sticks through the paper, you can put it on the paper. You can peel it off and put it on the paper. This one is. So it can handle the wetness of the paper. And there's my first image. My second one is soaking. Any other questions at all? One minute. Finish this. While you're doing that, I can make the announcement because people were very interested about the correspondence. So if you'd like more information, please contact the book arts at SFPL. At book arts at SFPL.org. Yeah. Thank you for sharing it. This one is not soaked all the way through yet. So it's, it's taking. Rushing it just a little bit, you know, one way I can find out is by doing this. And if paper, if the paper doesn't come off, then it needs to be soaked a little bit longer. Another tip is a little bit of the water is a little warmer. It works even better. It's a little cold in San Francisco today. I mean, I can't complain. There you go. Start to see that the paper starts to come off. It's like that. So when you're drying on the cutting board, yes, is it, is it the sticky side image down on the cutting board? Yes. The sticky side down on the cutting board. Okay. Thank you. So while that continues to soak. You can start writing your letter. You basically have made a postcard. It's made an envelope. And a letter. All at once. And you can, you know, Dear Joseph. And you could write a letter here and. Hold it. Hold it this way. You can start writing your letter. You can start writing your letter. You basically have made a postcard. You can start writing your letter. Hold it this way. You can tape it. Make sure you get a stamp for it. In the person's address. It doesn't make it to them. Return address. That's what we called it. That's why we put our address on top. Put the address here. On top. And voila, you mail it. That's the letter. And it's stuck to share. And come back and see. Oh, everyone is doing. One more question. How long should we soak the transfer? It really, it really depends five to 10 minutes. You can, you can soak it as long as, you know, you can just put it in water and a couple of hours later, and you can come back and check on it. Still work. But if you're in a hurry, like I was, you can rub the back of the paper back of the adhesive to see if the paper comes off. Comes out. And that's when it tells you it's ready. The longer you wait, the most, the more vibrant the image would be. Any other questions? Any other questions, everybody. Great. One thing I would say is that I would love to see your, your creations and things that you have created. So if you can, please send us a photo of your creation at education at Mollard SF.org. You can email us at education at Mollard SF.org. Last time we had, and I don't know if I sent it to you, Joseph is, is we had images of the drawings that people did. And it was amazing. It was so nice to see it. So folks can take a photo of their letters and send them to us. I would highly, highly appreciate it. And we have one more question. Yes. Does the mat medium work the same way if you let it drive first before soaking? The mat medium, the paper or. The medium, I'd like that much, much part. That's, uh, Well, let's see. If it's, we're not using much parts today at all. And so I wouldn't get much. Okay. I, I, we're not using much parts today. I wish we were. It's a lot of fun. But for that, for, um, I don't soak, um, I don't soak much part. I would love to know what your process is, but I don't use any water on when I do much part. Except a clean. All right. I think, um, if you have any more question, please let us know. Uh, again, thank you. So Dave for sharing your amazing skill. And I really do. I really thank you, Nora. I really like your inspiration that you use your father's letter to, for this art. Um, thank you and thank you all for joining us today. We'd love to see your creation by tagging us at, as a public library and using the hashtag hashtag more than a month. And be sure to check our calendar for future virtual more than a month programs. And don't forget to save the date for next program with authors. And that's all for today. And I'm going to end this story in Maldonado on February 24th at 2pm and Jason Reynolds on February 25th at 5pm. Today's workshop will be available to replay any parts you need to view again on YouTube and share with your friends. And that's all today folks. Take good care of yourself. Thank you. And everybody said it's so funny creative. Thank you today.