Summit Avenue Artisan Festival

4 - 5:30 pm • Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Washburn Library, 5244 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55419

For YOU! Keep your clothes out of the landfill and add your unique flair using stitching and patches. Mending your wearables allows you to refresh your style, keep your clothes in your closet longer, and customize your garments! Learn embroidery and applique techniques to fix rips, cover stains, and add personality to your closet. Bring clothing items you’d like to fix or create a sampler of techniques to take home with you!

Textile Center of Minnesota         REGISTER HERE  

h 10 - 11:30 am • Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Linden Hills Library, 2900 W. 43rd St., Minneapolis, MN 55410

Explore and play with fiber art. Activities may include yarn spinning, finger crochet, tapestry weaving, wind yarn into a ball or skein, or children will use all their senses and explore fiber and knot/twist/braid at their leisure.

Textile Center of Minnesota   REGISTER HERE 

Saturday, March 15, 2024

Art Start / Art Scraps, 1459 St. Clair Ave., St. Paul, MN 55105

Join me for a leisurely morning of mending. We will explore common problems that are hanging in your closet right now!

• Pants that are too something annoying that prohibit you from wearing them (i.e. short, wide, narrow, long, sheer, wild, or boring)
• Buttons that have taken a hike
• Zippers refusing to move
• Spontaneous rips, holes, and tears

Plus we'll explore your style, so you'll depart with something you and not your teenager would love to wear. No experience required.

Art Start / Art Scraps 

Let's Start a Mending Revolution

Fix, Mend, Improve, Beautify vs. Toss & Replace

Have you considered how mending and repairing are subversive acts against consumerism in our throwaway culture? Join our Repair Revolution, make new friends, and build radical repair communities that put the power in the hands of people, one stitch at a time.:

Coming Soon This Fall

Wet Paint, 1684 Grand Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55105

Embrace Wabi-Sabi, the Japanese aesthetic ideal that champions imperfection. Join me at Wet Paint in St. Paul as we treasure the authentic over everything faux or artificial, celebrate the used over the new, and elevate the imperfect over the flawless.

Bring something from your closet that needs fixing, doesn't fit, or needs refreshing. With needles, thread, embroidery floss, and hemp, we will explore Sashiko and Boro (Japan), embroidery (China), appilqué (France), and reverse appliqué (indigenous people of Panama and the Hmong of Southeast Asia). And you'll depart relaxed and en vogue! No experience is required.

Wet Paint Artist Materials & Framing