ACTIVITY

Explore the endless creative potential of combining hand embroidery with printed designs. Using a focused selection of screenprinted imagery as a starting point, we’ll look at alternative sources for inspiration and think through transformative uses of color, texture, form and pattern. Through guided instruction, you’ll experiment with a range of embroidery techniques, including ways to combine stitches or develop your own. Whether you’re looking to add a new dimension to your textile art or simply want to explore the interactions between print and thread, this class will provide you with a foundation for embracing your unique hand and a new approach to this timeless craft.

Beginners and experienced stitchers welcome, no prior experience required.

If you are interested in hearing Stephanie speak to her creative practice in a virtual artist talk, check out Narrative Quilting: Textiles as Record.

Date
Saturday, October 26, 2024

Time
12-4pm ET

Location
Tatter Textile Library
505 Carroll Street, 2B
Brooklyn, NY 11215

BLUE, The TATTER Textile Library is located in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Serving as both an interactive, ongoing art-installation as well as an academic research library, BLUE is an ever-growing home to 6,000 books, journals, exhibition catalogs, and objects that examine and celebrate the global history, traditions, makers, craft and beauty of textiles.

Cost
$100

Materials

All class supplies will be provided. Participants are welcome to bring any materials they might be interested in experimenting with.

Our Teacher

Stephanie Santana is a textile artist and printmaker whose works explores interior worlds, mythologies, navigational tools and resistance strategies of African diasporic origins. Rooted in the responsive encounter with archival material while employing a range of printmaking, quilting and embroidery techniques, her practice centers an interest in uncovering useful information through the process of making. Recent exhibitions include solo presentation Ways of Knowing at The Print Center (2024), and group presentations The Power of Portraiture: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2022) and A Contemporary Black Matriarchal Lineage in Printmaking at Highpoint Center for Printmaking (2021).

Santana has received artist fellowships from New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts (NYSCA/NYFA), EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, and A.I.R. Gallery, as well as generous support from Windgate Foundation and Sustainable Arts Foundation. Her work is held in permanent collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Getty Research Institute, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation and Janet Turner Print Museum. She has served as a visiting artist, panelist and guest lecturer at The bell hooks center, Rhode Island School of Design, SCAD Museum of Art and Penland School of Craft, among others. Santana lives and works in New York.