Fiber & Freedom Workshops

🧵Create beautiful fiber projects while exploring African American heritage.🪡

These playful and colorful adult projects will inspire the artist inside. Each session will introduce basic stitching, as well as no-sew techniques in fiber arts and freestyle designing. These Fabric Collage workshops are based on personal imagery and will educate participants in techniques, methodologies, and traditional and non-traditional African Americans workings of fiber arts, like Faith Ringgold, Bettye Saar, and Bisa Butler.

Each session in this workshop series is stand-alone, so you can come to one or to them all. Here are the projects for each date: 

February 5 - Art Dolls

February 12 - Pouches

February 19 - Tassels 

Please note that registration is required to secure a spot in the class and each class has its own registration, walk-ups will only be taken if there is a cancelation or a no-show. 

This workshop series will be led by VET: 

VET is a native Texas artist who incorporates environmental recycling awareness through her artwork, commissions, and workshops. Her murals and art installations combine the aesthetics of fine art with an inventive application of found and re-purposed objects. In addition to her wide variety of cultural-based and educational arts programs, she always shares innovative ways to re-think, re-purpose and re-design discarded items. VET has been touring nationally and regionally for over 25 years where she offers hands-on classes, workshops and other customized programming. She is a graduate of the University of Texas Dallas (BA Arts & Performance). VET’s work has been on exhibit throughout the U.S., Mexico, Canada and Africa; and the recipient of numerous grants that include The National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA), State Fair of Texas Creative Arts Department, Dallas Cultural Vitality Program, ArtsActivate, Dallas Community Fund Project, Dallas Community Artist, TACA Culture Bank, MetLife Foundation, and Urban Genesis.

This Ceramics Workshop is supported in part by the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs.

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