In this workshop participants will use traditional and found materials to weave a small piece of textile art. They will be able to wrap a cardboard loom and weave it with yarns, threads, cords, ribbons, plarn (yarn made from plastic bags), and more to create individual artworks of their design.

Participants will learn a few woven structures, become familiar with some weaving lingo, and receive individual instruction to help them realize their ideas. Most materials will be provided but participants are encouraged to bring in whatever yarns, threads, or other small objects of their own that they might like to include in their weaving.

Antonia A. Perez, a mixed-media artist living and working in New York City, focuses on the reuse and transformation of materials, primarily crocheting and weaving used textiles and plastic store bags into a range of sculptural forms. She has held public weaving events in Central Park, NYC; Socrates Park, Queens, NY; community centers and Public Libraries. Her work was recently on view at Main Window in DUMBO, NY and has been exhibited at the National Museum of Mexican Art, Chicago, ILL; Artspace, Raleigh, NC; Hampden Gallery, Amherst, MA; Children’s Museum of Manhattan, Cuchifritos Gallery, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art & Storytelling, and El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY; Latimer House Museum and Queens Museum, Flushing, NY. She received the EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop 2016 Studio Immersion Fellowship and the 2011 Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program Award. She was a 2017 AIR at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans, LA, and at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan in 2018. a Master of Fine Arts from Queens College, CUNY.

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Instagram: @aaperezpix

Location: 242 10th St

Time: 12:00-3:00 pm EDT

Free!

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