RootCamp with Grounds4Art

At the end of the session, attendees will be invited to ask questions and to share their thoughts about HCC’s current public art project NEST, including what features and design elements could be incorporated into the project sites to address their needs and interests.

NEST (Nourishment, Education and Social Terraces), led by Tory Tepp, is a multi-campus public art initiative that will transform sections of both the HCC Dale Mabry and Ybor City Campuses into socially activated green spaces. To learn more, visit our website.

About the workshop leaders:

Roc is a trans masculine educator who received their Bachelor of Science in Sports & Leisure Management from Eastern Connecticut State University and received a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of South Florida. Roc is a doctorate student in the Department of Sport Management at Florida State University. Roc's focus is on physical culture and the active body. Roc is the Founder of Rooted Resistance, LLC. Roc continues to make sense of their own experiences and find that the connections to others are not coincidental. Because of this realization Roc believes it's important to map out how individual stories and community narratives connect to structures that influence folx’ lives. Roc believes in collective responsibility and is committed to reimagining spaces for movement for the Queer and Transgender communities.

Sam(ira) Obeid: poet, Indian, activist, lesbian, scholar, immigrant, warrior. Sam was born and raised in India, moved to the U.S. in 2007. She received her Masters degrees in Multimedia Journalism and Women’s & Gender Studies from the University of South Florida. Her full-time job is in non-discrimination work as Program Director at Community Tampa Bay. Her other full-time job is as a spoken word poet. She has been the keynote speaker at multiple LGBTQ+ events including Metro Wellness’ Youth Summit and USF’s first LGBTQ+ Gala, performed spoken word at Equality Florida’s Tampa Gala, and has given a TEDx Talk on deconstructing gender and gender identity. Sam is the Director of Grants and Contracts for Rooted Resistance.

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Reminders and announcements for all our NEST events will be shared through Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (@gallery221hcc) with #grounds4art. Stay tuned for more details!

NEST is sponsored in part by the Gobioff Foundation Treasure Tampa Grant, the HCC Foundation, the Stanton Storer Embrace the Arts Foundation and the HCC Dale Mabry Campus Student Government Association.

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You might also be interested in our other Grounds4Art@HCC events! Click the links below to find out more.

• Studio Chat with artist Tory Tepp (Sept. 16)
• Urban Gardening & Sustainability (Oct. 1)
• Designing Public Spaces with artist Tory Tepp (Oct. 15)
• Inclusivity in Public Art: The Power of Community (Oct. 28)