Liza Lou talks about the shift from working as a solitary artist to being part of a community of artisans, the Apartogether platform that encourages people to create art and share and talk about their work, and how Apartogether has provided encouragement for her own work.
When the United States began lockdown as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, artist Liza Lou created the online platform Apartogether to encourage viewers to make work from familiar materials around the house and to tag it with the Instagram handle @apartogether_art. What started as an exercise in combatting long-term isolation has grown into a global community of artisans and makers eager to share new work. Along with a series of artist talks, Lou also hosts “sew-in” sessions on Zoom to facilitate conversation among the participants.