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How do you keep memories? Artist-in-residence and community organizer Frances Mortel will share different ways to digitize and archive physical documents, photographs, and older analog media formats.
Artist-in-Residence, Frances Grace Mortel uses archived materials and stories in her art practice. By preserving stories from the past, she is affirming the existence of her culture and her ancestors. During her residency, she has converted her studio into an immersive experience installation with multiple videos, images, and sound recordings playing at once. She affirms that archiving can be a powerful tool to resist erasure, reclaim our stories, and build pathways to keep them alive for future generations.
During this workshop, Frances will share some of her art, you can visit her studio installation, and she will teach about different methods to digitize and store physical materials and analog media to protect our culture and collective memory.
She will have stations for you to digitize materials that you bring. Please bring a thumb drive or be prepared to save to your own cloud account if you want to digitize materials. Feel free to attend one or the other session or both if you want more time for digitizing.
You may bring:

About the artist:
Frances Grace Mortel (b. 1987, Manila) is an artist, filmmaker, and community organizer. She is the Co-Executive Director for Asians for Collective Liberation in Spokane and Asians for Collective Action, a member of Washington Filmworks Equity Committee, serves on the board of Spokane Film Project, and programs films at Spokane International Film Festival. Her site-responsive installations involve unmaking and perpetual maintenance—exploring labor and care through digital and physical archives—often thinking about displacement and extraction while mapping out collective memory through moving image and placemaking. Fran lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family and completed her MFA at Bard College in New York.
AGE GROUP: | High School | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Learning & Lectures | Craft & DIY | Arts & Culture |
| Mon, Jan 26 | 9:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Tue, Jan 27 | 9:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Wed, Jan 28 | 9:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Thu, Jan 29 | 9:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Fri, Jan 30 | 9:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sat, Jan 31 | 9:00AM to 6:00PM |
| Sun, Feb 01 | 12:00PM to 4:00PM |
MEETING & STUDY ROOMS
Have a study session, lead a training, or teach a free community art class in our free event and maker studios with flexible scheduling.
Events A: Seats 40
Events B: Seats 24
Events C: Seats 24
Events A, B, & C can be combined to seat up to 96
Studio E: Seats 32 and can be used for art workshops, crafting get togethers, or any group gathering
TRANSPORTATION
Free parking
Bike parking
Electric car charging stations
STA Bus Route: 90
SERVICES
Artist residencies
Spokane Public Schools Teacher Training Center
Spokane Virtual Learning with Spokane Public Schools