Eco-Crip: Community Workshop on Stimming and Craft Processes
Time: April 17, 2026, noon - 2 p.m.
Location: T.B.D.
Part of the Syracuse Symposium series.
Artist Francisco echo Eraso demonstrates how sensory processes like making textile and fiber-based crafts can serve as a connection to access practices like stimming, and to the communities, ecologies and environments we are a part of. In this workshop hosted by the Center on Disability and Inclusion and the SU Art Museum, participants can make their own take-home stim toy and contribute to a collective community project.
Related: Eraso presents an innovative lecture with reception on April 16.
About the artist:
Francisco echo Eraso (he/él) is a Colombian-American interdisciplinary artist, educator and access worker. He uses textiles and ceramics as well as minimalist sculpture and sound art to engage topics of liberation theology, family, and revolution.
He received his MFA in Fine Arts from Rutgers University in 2025 and a BA/BFA from Parsons, The New School in Visual Studies and Fine Arts in 2018. He has been a keynote speaker at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2025), received the Wynn Newhouse Award (2024), received the LEAD award from the Kennedy center (2023) and served as the call to action speaker for the Art-Reach Conference on Arts, Culture and Disability (2023). He has been an artist-in-residence at Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts SHIFT residency for arts workers (2022-2023), FABSCRAP (2022-2023), Textile Arts Center (2020-2021), 77Art (2021) and Art Beyond Sight’s Art and Disability Residency (2021). He has exhibited at Mason Gross Galleries (NJ), The Re-Institute, Tempest Gallery, The Shed, EFA Project Space, Westbeth Gallery, Chashama Space Gallery, Ford Foundation Gallery, Amos Eno Gallery, Flux Factory and Sheila C. Johnson Gallery (NY), Mead Museum and A.P.E. Gallery (MA), The National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (OH), Museo Antonini in Peru, among others. He has been published by NYU Press (2025) Art in America (2022), and Ugly Duckling Press (2020).
Eraso currently works as an accessibility consultant, independent curator, youth minister, and part-time lecturer at Rutgers University, Parsons, The New School and Middlesex Community College.