Upcoming Virtual Workshop: Good as Gold Earrings Through the NC Museum of Art

It is with excitement that I can announce that I will be teaching a few virtual workshops over the following months!  The registration for the first of these workshops just opened.  It is an introductory goldwork workshop inspired by the exhibition Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women which showed at the Smithsonian Museum of African Art last fall and was scheduled to travel to the North Carolina Museum of Art this summer.  

In this workshop, students will design their own pair of earrings (or could easily be made as a brooch) that will then be embroidered using couched metal threads and metallic leather kid.  All supplies needed to complete this workshop are included within the kit as well as a coordinating instruction booklet.  Various design motif templates inspired by the pieces in the Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women exhibition are included within the instruction booklet.  

The workshop will take place via Zoom over two 90 minute workshops on August 15 and 22 from 1:30-3pm.  With the following outline:

August 15:  Design motif, transfer design to ground material, padding, leather appliqué and couching.

August 22:  Wiggle couching, chain stitch, and finishing

You can register for the upcoming workshop at this link. I hope to see you there!