SDA’s 2026 Online Workshops
Learn new skills and techniques, get inspired, and find ways to apply what you learn to your current studio practice, all while connecting and creating within SDA’s community.
Spanning Saturday to Saturday, learn, grow, and meet like-minded textile enthusiasts in our online workshops featuring 2 hour instruction sessions on the weekends and a midweek meetup to troubleshoot, share progress, and gather in community with other participants. All workshop recordings will be available for one year. Take one workshop or take them all!
WORKSHOPS
PRICING + CANCELLATIONS
FORMAT
CONTACT
PAST WORKSHOPS
Soft Circuits: eTextile Basics with Victoria Manganiello
January 17 - 24, 2026
Transform your textiles with electronics and switches! Incorporating conductive thread, snaps, and buttons, create interactive components to your work through traditional fiber techniques.
Thinking Big: Creating Installation-Scale Fiber Art with Confidence with Holly Wong
March 7 - 14, 2026
Go big conceptually and physically in this intimate workshop where you'll learn the ins and outs of installation from conception to execution.
Bobbin Lace with Sasha Baskin
March 7 - 14, 2026
Create tone, value, and structure with tiny interlocking threads! We'll master the basics so we can create our very own complex designs.
Sculptural Paper Casting with Leah Aegerter
March 21 - 28, 2026
Transform paper pulp into unique cast-paper sculptures! Starting from dry pulp, we’ll cover reconstituting, blending, dyeing, and casting sheets that we’ll then mold around found objects in our environment.
Soft Sewn Structures: Trapunto & Cording for 3D Surfaces with Emily Ryan Stark
March 28 - April 4, 2026
Layer and pad your surfaces to create tactile compositions! You'll finish this workshop with trapunto and cording samples to incorporate into your making practice.
Exploring Dye Techniques with Astrid Hilger Bennett
April 4 - 11, 2026
Paint, print, and process your very own fabric in this surface design workshop! We’ll cover fiber reactive dye basics and monoprinting techniques as well as practical home and studio setup tips and tricks.
Paper and Pattern Making with Joy Scanlon
April 11 - 18, 2026
Coming soon!
Soft Circuits: Switches, Sensors, and Code
April 18 - 25, 2026
Go beyond the basics and delve into fabric-based circuitry and basic coding! We'll learn how to animate our e-textile creations with sewable microcontrollers and incorporate electronic components into our making practices.
Baskets & Skins with Rose Tsang
April 25 - May 2, 2026
Build expressive 3D forms using traditional basketry techniques and elevate your piece with "skins" made of Kozo paper and acrylic medium.
Pricing + Cancellations
Member price: $235.00 per workshop
Non-member price: $275.00 per workshop
Interested in becoming a SDA member? We’d love to have you! Our digital membership package starts at $85/year and $60/year for students. Use the code WORKSHOPS for 10% off your membership when you join SDA.
Interested in taking more than one workshop? Get 15% off every additional workshop you sign up for with the code WORKSHOPS15.
In the event that you must cancel, please email events@surfacedesign.org within one week of your initial registration in order to receive a refund. A $50 administrative fee will apply.
Format
Each workshop spans eight days and is structured so that the majority of instruction will take place on Saturdays for a total of four hours – two hours each Saturday. A one hour moderated midweek meetup between each Saturday session will allow for workshop participants to further discussions, troubleshoot, and work in community with one another. Workshop instructors are not required to attend meetups but may if their time permits.
All workshop instruction and meetups will take place online over Zoom. For more information and to download the app, please visit zoom.com. We are happy to provide technical support at events@surfacedesign.org.
Recordings will be made available to each participant for one year.
Supply lists are listed under each workshop page and available to download.
Contact
Please contact us with any questions at events@surfacedesign.org