Textile Studio
Our textie studio specializes in education and creating woven textiles, quilts, home accessories, small furnishings, and custom designs for exhibition + commission using natural dyes for coloring our material to create weavings, sewn work, knits and crocheted objects .
We invite artists and creators to come work collaboratively or independently to produce fine art + experimental works. Enjoy our immersive textile arts studio featuring sewing and knitting machines, looms, hand knitting and crochet supplies, and dye supplies. Check out our upcoming retreats + workshops.
Current Projects
Shuttle Service
Shuttle Service is a long term collaboration with musical artist Eugene Lew in association with Center for Ethnographic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. The project uses natural dyes, mordents, and modifiers to capture fleeting sound waves and the human voice using chladni plates as well as a voice activated dye bath .
The Quilt Code Variations
The Quilt Code Variations are a series of studies of a collection of traditional quilt blocks know as the quilt codes. It is said that these quilt blocks, including the log cabin, flying geese and the irish knot, where used in quilts hanging from clothes lines along the underground railroad to note instructions and directions .
In African American quilting traditions the log cabin quilt on a fence or clothes line symbolizes a safe house with vacancy on the underground railroad.
With this variation I’m interested in combining medicinal dyes with the Quilt Codes as a meditation on freedom, escape, and healing from the pervasiveness of historic trauma
