Weaving New Worlds: Banner Making Workshop

In this workshop, students will be invited to discuss dreams and visions for a world without sexual violence, rooted in queer histories, wisdom, and brilliance. We will make collaborative banners to be included in the upcoming exhibition at Stamp Gallery: We Will Not Be Silent: Art Transforming Rape Culture, October 30-December 15, 2025.

About the facilitators:

Jadelynn St Dre is a featured artist in “We Will Not Be Silent.” Her work bridges the intersections of interdisciplinary performance and community support work, creating rituals that highlight interdependence, radical care and resistance. Jadelynn is a Queer, disabled, Latine, cis-femme interdisciplinary performance artist of European and Indigenous descent. With over fifteen years of experience as an organizer and artist in anti-violence spaces, she works to amplify the voices of those often marginalized within mainstream movements.

Hannah Brancato is the curator of the exhibition, a current PhD student in American Studies at the University of Maryland, and an artist. Her research focuses on memory work and the role of art in anti-sexual violence movements, and is informed by her role as co-founder FORCE: Upsetting Rape Culture, an art/organizing collective active from 2010-2020, that produced a range of creative interventions to create a culture of consent. FORCE is best known for the Monument Quilt, a collection of 3,000 stories from survivors of sexual violence, written, painted and stitched onto red fabric. Her current collaborative artwork, Dreamseeds, is currently on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

This workshop is in conjunction with the current exhibition at the Stamp Gallery, "We Will Not Be Silent: Art Transforming Rape Culture," on view from October 30 to December 15, 2025.

This exhibition is supported by a Do Good Institute Campus Fund Grant, Arts For All, and the Maryland State Arts Council. Programming is supported by the LGBTQ+ Equity Center and CARE to Stop Violence.

ABOUT THE GALLERY 

Located on the first floor of the Adele H. Stamp Student Union—Center for Campus Life at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Stamp Gallery is dedicated to exhibiting contemporary art, especially the work of emerging and mid-career artists. The Stamp Gallery supports contemporary art that is challenging, academically engaging, and attuned to broad community and social issues. Through meaningful exhibitions and programming, the Gallery offers outside-of-the-classroom experiential learning opportunities. It functions as a laboratory where emerging artists and curators experiment and refine their ideas. The Gallery’s programming aims to emphasize the importance of process to contemporary artistic practice and to provide a forum for dialogue.

FREE and open to the public. 

Gallery hours: Mondays–Thursdays: 10 a.m. – 8 p.m., Fridays: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m., Saturdays: 11 a.m. – 5 p.m., Sundays: Closed. 

More information: stamp.umd.edu/gallery.