Mindful Mending Workshop
Thursday, May 23, 2024
5—8 pm
Free, drop in, no experience necessary
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:
Join exhibiting artist Emma Welty and JAC teaching artist Kyle Canyon for a free, drop-in workshop to mend, repurpose, and upcycle your clothes. Participants can bring a favorite piece of clothing that is in need of some love to reconstruct, repair, or repurpose using DIY practices.
This community engagement project coincides with the current exhibition Second Time Around, which reimagines past stories, objects, and materials. In particular, this event focuses on the urgent need to promote everyday practices of sustainability to prevent waste.
Image: Emma Welty, Low, 2021. Needlelace and poms of cotton and wool thread.
Low, pictured above, is currently on view in Second Time Around. It is a piece from Emma Welty’s body of work titled “Hand wash, lay flat” which uses text from laundry labels to explore the tender care for textiles as an act of care towards garment workers. This piece is a large lace medallion with the word LOW woven into the lace cloth with carpet pile knots, adorned with hanging lace and poms.
ABOUT EMMA
Emma Welty is an artist, educator, curator and writer currently living and working in Connecticut. In her studio she is a weaver and researcher, interrogating her relationship to the loom through craft legacies, inherited muscle memory and the links between textiles and language. She completed her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Fibers and Art History and her MFA in Visual Arts and MA in Art History at Purchase College, SUNY.
ABOUT KYLE
Kyle Canyon is a queer illustrator and comic artist based in Newport, Rhode Island. Using digital illustration techniques his work explores themes of humor, hypotheticals, and over dramatic emotions. Kyle invents surreal worlds and anthropomorphic characters to archive personal experiences and their ephemeral emotions. He has acquired a degree from Parsons School of Design and has been published by Colorama, Kuš! and Wobby magazine. He has previously taught at the Newport Art Museum and is looking forward to sharing his knowledge with the JAC community.