Fiber Art: Inspired by Dance (Tuition-free, three-session workshop)

Adult Tuition-Free Class | This program is completed

All levels welcome.

1/21/2022-2/4/2022

10:00 AM-4:00 PM EDT on Fri

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In partnership with the Philadelphia Ballet this workshop will explore the intersection of fiber arts and dance. Internationally renowned costume designer Holly Hynes will introduce us to her design process featuring her reactions to textiles and their narrative qualities. Fleisher teaching artist and fiber artist, Dianne Koppisch Hricko, will lead this workshop. Students will create 2 unique six foot textiles using fiber reactive dyes. Our finished textiles will be sent to the Philadelphia Ballet dancers to explore and interact with. These explorations will be professionally photographed to create a public display at the Cherry Street Pier in May of 2022.

What you will learn:

1. The relationship of color and mark and textile structure to costume design
2. Music as a source of abstract inspiration
3. Color and Mark as symbolic expressions
4. Working directly with dyes on six feet of fabric
5. How to make your dyed work washable

  • This is an in-person class which will take place in our building with strict social distancing protocols and reduced student capacity. Proof of vaccination is required, and masks must be worn at all times. Please see our COVID-19 community safety policies.

    Dress in clothes and shoes you don't care about, the dyes are designed to dye fabric.

    • Some large flat foam brushes 4" and 3". An assortment would be great.
    • Assortment of house paint brushes ( these may be used as long as they are clean and smooth)
    • 4" foam roller with a tray 
    • Partial roll of blue painter's tape ... the wider the better.
    • Pair of dishwashing gloves 
    • Several lidded plastic containers cottage cheese/ yogurt etc. with lid label with your name.
    • 18 x24 “  Newsprint pad... this may be partial
    • Aprons/ smock/ something to cover your clothing.
    • A small plastic bucket to contain your brushes while you are working and take them home to clean them