“The 8th annual Craftstravaganza in celebration of International Women’s Day! Learn craft practices from around the world! Four free, simultaneous workshops will be offered on:
Saturday, March 12, 2016, noon-4pm at MAWA,
611 Main Street
Free! Everyone welcome!
Wheelchair accessible.
All materials are provided, child-minding is available and snacks will be served. Enjoy good food, good company and good crafting!
The event will feature:
The Lazy Stitch, a simple traditional, North American beading technique… although not as easy as one might assume based on its name! Neepekan Hunt will show how beads can be embroidered onto fabric or leather in straight rows or lines in order to cover larger areas and develop symmetrical patterns. Hunt is of Ojibway and Cree descent, has six children, and is the creator of a star blanket for the Canadian Human Rights Museum that is used for educational purposes.
Needle Felting is a sculptural practice in which objects are created out of wool with special barbed needles. Using this technique, Jeanette and Maurice Dzama will teach how to create a simple form such as an animal. These Winnipeg artists draw, paint, and create sculptures and dolls that have been shown in Canada and the U.S.
Leather Tooling is an age-old artform. Talie Polischuk will show participants how to hand-decorate a leather bookmark, keychain or bracelet through basic stamping and kistka batik techniques. Polischuk began her love affair with leather shortly after the birth of her daughter, and has developed her own unique approach to the medium by combining methods such as batik, pyrography, moulding and tooling.
Katchhi Bharat (Gujarati mirror embroidery) is the technique of embroidering small mirrors onto fabric with diverse stitches in order to make animal and flower designs. Nisha Desai was taught Katchhi Bharat by older female family members when she was a child growing up in Ahmedabad, the capital of Gujarat, India, Desai came to Winnipeg in April 2012. Trained as a medical laboratory technician, she now works in child care.”
-submitted by MAWA
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