Join us in welcoming fifth generation basket weaver Lynette Youson to Textile Center for a 5-day weaving workshop. Learn the coiling technique of sweetgrass basket weaving from its origins in Sierra Leone, West Africa, using the materials of the Lowcountry of South Carolina. Youson will guide participants through the creation of a basket using Bull …
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Join me for a 3-day immersive Fiber Art workshop focused on papermaking for sculpture designed to elevate your creative practice. Set against the serene backdrop of Arroyo Hondo, this workshop offers creatives the opportunity to engage in daily sessions with a focus on papermaking with flax roving creating textured paper for sculptural applications with natural …
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Explore paper as sculpture while experimenting with surface, structure, and embellishment. Create multiples, mobiles, and mixed-media pieces as you discover the expressive possibilities of paper through hands-on experimentation with color, pattern, texture, and structure with an emphasis on process, repetition, and play, allowing ideas to emerge through making and series-based work….
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Make a sculptural / architectural enclosure for artwork, treasures or ephemera. You’ll design and construct a unique paper based case; equal parts functional and expressive. The vessel you will create during this workshop becomes integral to its contents, shaping how they’re stored, revealed, and experienced….
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I have a bunch of creative nyc workshops coming up and hope you can join!…
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Create expressive block-printed fabric and paper with instructor April Sproule. Use repurposed materials, carve blocks, layer color, collage, stitch, and leave with a finished textile piece….
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Fiber artists of all kinds are invited to join us for a weekend of creativity at our biannual retreat. You will have full access to both of our spacious studios: our sewing studio and our dye/wet studio. Lunch is complementary. Just bring yourself and your work! WHEN: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 13-15, 2026 …
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Want to escape from those ho-hum stitch patterns you always use? We’re going to spend three days stitching for fun. The end result? A beast to join a parade. Imagination, clairvoyance and experimentation are all in the mix. We’ll play with patterns and scribble new textures. Our focus will be on loosening up, finding our …
Read More »Participants in this workshop will work with their own inspirational photo, painting or imagination to create a unique wall quilt. By breaking down their inspirational photo or picture to its basic design elements students will use fused appliqué and free motion quilting to realize their vision. Quilts are made in a collage method on a …
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In this experimental workshop, students will learn lashing and chaotic weaving methods for building skeletal structures with rattan and bamboo. On these frameworks, explore methods for building skins with rice papers, pigmented and unpigmented gut, and recycled netting. Paintable graphite, acrylics, shellac and Japanese suminagashi marbleizing will further modify membrane surfaces and structures. A series …
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