#basement workshop

[thegikitiki]

Home Workshop, 1960

[thegikitiki]

Home Workshop, 1950

[rgf-fortobein]

1014 West 31st Place, Chicago, c.2026

[asianamericanactivism]

Daylight for the Basement

Last month, at a tiny gallery in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn, about a hundred people celebrated the opening of “Serve the People,” an exhibit of archival material documenting the activism of Asian Americans in New York City in the 1970s. In a room crammed with equal parts post-Reagan millennials and baby boomers, Ryan Wong, the lanky and unassuming 25-year-old curator of the exhibit, explained the origins of the show. “A lot of peoples’ reactions were, why now? Why does someone who’s in his 20s want to deal with something that happened 30, 40 years ago?” he said after the opening. “Part of it was personal, myself wanting to understand what Asian American-ness means.” The movement is little-known outside its participants and Asian American Studies majors.

[asianamsmakingmusic]

“Yellow Pearl Advertisement,” produced at the Basement Workshop, 1972. Courtesy of Museum of Chinese in America

[wweengineer]

This is my basement workshop. I like it a lot, the only problem is that it is quite humid down there. So it's either applying corrosion protection to (good) tools or bringing them up to my apartment. Both takes time, so I'm planing on moving my workshop out of the basement. The Ulmia is already in my future workshop.Cleaned and remounted its table today.You can see it on the right table, it wasn't cleaned yet when i took the picture.

Next will be the accessories like the fence and the table extension.