Reed Change

A collaborative embroidery animation created by: Susan Abe ’87, Amanda LeBrun Andersen ’91, Dave Baxter ‘87, Daniel Beveridge ’92, Emilie Broughton ’04, Ann Byler ‘63, Larry Byler, Kathia Emery ’67, Elizabeth Fisher ’67, Karinna French ’89, Jessica Gerhardt ’11, Amy Hesse ’03, Jonathan Kim ’78, John McDougall ’96, Mark McLean ’70, Nancy Murphy ’73, Anaka Narayanan ’04, Dylan Rivera ’95, Wendy Robinson ’73, Jodi Rymer ’96, Mariza Tovar ’09, Sylvia Tucker ’63, Gay Walker ’69, Libby Wennstrom ’84, Barbara West ’64, Charlie C. Wilcox ’16, and Jamie Zartler ‘88

As Part of Reed College’s Alumni College: Artists, Creators & Craftspersons—Here, There, and Back Again , June 7-8, 2023

In this collaborative animation workshop, I led a group of Reed College alumni in the process of creating an embroidery animation in which each participant had the opportunity to embroider a Reed Griffin mascot in their own unique style, introducing along the way a new approach and ethos to looking at handcrafted textiles and visual media. For the animation, I designed a loop of seven illustrations of the Griffin used throughout the institution’s history morphing into each other, illustrating the ever-changing and yet perpetually connected nature of the college’s community, representative in the coming together of multigenerational alumni to learn, play, and congregate during Alumni College and Reunions.