Our ability to make use of pieces from our past in order to generate the raw materials of our future is, I believe, our way forward. As an artist and garment designer, I have been using fabric donations as well as my own textile waste to make one-of-a-kind garments for the last ten-plus years. After the height of the summer, and as we walk into the fall season, give yourself permission to compose new yardage from all of those miscellaneous scraps, fabric remnants, worn-out garments, linens, and other soft materials you have been holding on to.
Yardwork will follow the structure of my own studio practice; we will begin with explorations of decorated scraps of textiles, proceed through cutting, piecing, stitching, and ironing, and complete with new yardage for future projects. Specifically, for this workshop, we will create a piece of collaged yardage to create a bag with a pdf paper pattern supplied to participants.
All sessions will be held online over Zoom and recorded. Recordings will be emailed to participants within 24 hours of the session. Recordings are available for one year. This workshop features 2 hour instruction sessions on Saturdays and a midweek meetup to troubleshoot, share progress, and gather in community with other participants. Live sessions are scheduled as follows: `
- Saturday, September 27, 5-7PM ET (convert timezone)
- Wednesday, October 1, 7-8PM ET (convert timezone)
- Saturday, October 4, 5-7PM ET (convert timezone)
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About Your Instructor
Hadley Clark moves fluidly between visual art and garment design, having earned her BFA from The University of Kansas and a second BFA in Fashion Design with Honors from The New School | Parsons Paris. Clark’s work includes handmade wearables and wall and floor-based sculptural works, all of which draw from her belief in the vitality of material reuse, and botanical dyeing processes. In addition to her independent studio work, Clark leads regular community-based workshops relating to her own studio interests on subjects as varied as sewing basics, methods of mending, and collaging with reused textiles.
Clark’s work has been featured with the Hammer Museum Restore (Los Angeles, CA), Cumulus International Design Conference (Paris, France), the Gothenburg Fashion Fair (Gothenburg, Sweden), Residencies: Studios Inc. (Kansas City, MO) Haystack (ME), Texere (Oaxaca, MX).