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Wearable Art: Fiber Focus with Jenny Torino

July 27 @ 10:00 am - July 31 @ 12:00 pm
$135.00

Monday – Friday, July 27 – 31

1 – 3 pm

Grades 7 – 12

$135 per student

 

Join us for Wearable Art: Fiber Focus for where students will discover stitching, felting and weaving while creating their own unique wearable art during the week’s art projects.

Classes 1-2: Needle Felted Patches
Turn wool fiber into pictures then turn those pictures into patches you can add to jackets or tote bags. Needle felting is a craft where you sculpt loose wool fibers in to dense 3D or 2D designs using a special barbed needle. Bring images of your original characters, inspiration from a favorite anime or fun, simple designs.
Classes 3-4: Wet Felted Jewelry
Create necklaces and bracelets using wool, yarn and beads while learning the skill of wet felting. During the process of wet felting combine colorful wool, soap and water to make beads and bracelet cuffs. Then decorate with stitching and jewelry beads.
Class 5: Refashion Class
Choose an old T shirt, Flannel shirt, jean jacket or jeans from home and make it exciting to wear again by embroidering or needle felting designs on it. Learn how to transfer your own drawings to fabric and turn them into embroidered or needle felting images on your clothing. We will review embroidery stitches and how to combine needle and wet felting.

 

About Jenny Torino:

I am an interdisciplinary artist that primarily uses fibers such as felting wool, textiles and paper to create felt sculptures and interactive spaces. I focus on the living ecosystem and patterns in nature that often get overlooked. I allow myself to work slowly, leading to hyperfocus on shape, form and color. Focusing on these details becomes a meditation.

My felted sculpture highlights the connection between artist & material and art & the ecosystem. Familiarity and intimate connection with every stage of wool production is part of my process. My work also involves supporting and building community by using materials from small farms and sharing knowledge of the felting process with the public.

 

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