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Skillshare Project
2014 - present
The Skillshare Project offers free textile art education to the public. There are two parts to this project:
1) Impromptu free educational experiences in parks and other public spaces.
2) Organized workshops offered for free to marginalized individuals and communities.
About impromptu public skill-sharing:
I offer to share textile handwork techniques to passersby in public spaces like parks and on subways. By engaging in historically community-based activities as an alternative to insular behaviour, and the communities people are often participating in digitally, I hope to complicate people’s ideas about their default ways of being in and thinking about public space.
About free workshops:
This aspect of the project makes art education available to low income individuals and other marginalized communities in the form of free workshops by way of financial support from granting bodies, sponsors and donors. After designing and organizing a comprehensive workshop I seek out financial support and sponsorship so that I can offer the class for free to people who would otherwise be unable to attend extracurricular art classes.
Financial support has come from American Tapestry Alliance for a free three-week tapestry workshop on the Sunshine Coast in 2020.
Financial support has come from Surface Design Association and Grace Church Van Vorst for a two-day natural dye and shibori workshop in Jersey City, New Jersey in 2015.
The above photo shows a public skill-share at Washington Square Park, New York, NY in 2015.
1) Impromptu free educational experiences in parks and other public spaces.
2) Organized workshops offered for free to marginalized individuals and communities.
About impromptu public skill-sharing:
I offer to share textile handwork techniques to passersby in public spaces like parks and on subways. By engaging in historically community-based activities as an alternative to insular behaviour, and the communities people are often participating in digitally, I hope to complicate people’s ideas about their default ways of being in and thinking about public space.
About free workshops:
This aspect of the project makes art education available to low income individuals and other marginalized communities in the form of free workshops by way of financial support from granting bodies, sponsors and donors. After designing and organizing a comprehensive workshop I seek out financial support and sponsorship so that I can offer the class for free to people who would otherwise be unable to attend extracurricular art classes.
Financial support has come from American Tapestry Alliance for a free three-week tapestry workshop on the Sunshine Coast in 2020.
Financial support has come from Surface Design Association and Grace Church Van Vorst for a two-day natural dye and shibori workshop in Jersey City, New Jersey in 2015.
The above photo shows a public skill-share at Washington Square Park, New York, NY in 2015.
