SDA Workshops
Learn new skills and techniques, get inspired, and find ways to apply what you learn to your current studio practice, all while connecting and creating within SDA’s community.
Spanning Saturday to Saturday, learn, grow, and meet like-minded textile enthusiasts in our workshops featuring 2 hour instruction sessions on the weekends and a midweek meetup to troubleshoot, share progress, and gather in community with other participants. All workshop recordings will be available until the end of 2024. Take one workshop or take them all!
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WORKSHOPS
Sculptural Basketry with Sarita Westrup
Saturday, September 14 + Saturday, September 21
with a midweek meetup
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Explore three dimensional fiber forms with Sarita Westrup! We'll be diving into the materials, techniques, approaches, and tools she uses to twine her arched baskets. We'll cover prepping reed for spokes and weavers, starting an open bottom basket, backwards twining, and finishing the lip of the basket. Other materials/media for twining and surface will be discussed. The workshop will focus on demonstrations and time outside of class may be needed to finish your basket.
Sarita Westrup (She/Her)
Sarita is a craft based artist and art educator of mixed Mexican descent living in Dallas, TX. Rooted in weaving techniques and bricolage, her sculptural basketry works are inspired by where she was born and raised, the Rio Grande Valley on the Texas - Mexico border. Through the use of mixed media and woven sculptural forms, her work explores the themes of tension, movement, and containment, joined and permeable space, and the bi-cultural aesthetics of her home. Her artwork is exhibited nationally and is published in American Craft and Surface Design Journal.
Soft Circuits with Victoria Manganiello
Saturday, October 19 + Saturday, October 26
with a midweek meetup
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In this workshop we will explore the basics of conductive and resistive yarns for the purposes of creating soft circuits in textiles. Small components like batteries, lights and switches can be embedded into textile structures creating soft and flexible electronics. Students will learn the basics of electrical circuitry and how to incorporate it into their creative practice. We will engage in discussion about e-textiles and talk about ancient technologies like weaving, knitting, and sewing alongside current/future technologies like electrical engineering.
Victoria Manganiello (She/Her)
Victoria Manganiello is a textile artist, historian, and educator. Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, The New York Times, Boulin ArtInfo, Forbes, and Architectural Digest, among others. Her studio Craftwork focuses on experimental craft techniques in both the physical and digital realms. Exploring the intersections between materiality, technology, geography, and storytelling, Victoria’s multi-disciplinary and installation work, abstract paintings, and kinetic sculptures are made meticulously with hand-woven textiles using hand-spun yarn and hand-mixed natural and synthetic color dyes alongside mechanical alternatives and modern technologies.
PRICING
Member price: $225.00 per workshop
Non-member price: $265.00 per workshop
Interested in becoming a SDA member? We’d love to have you! Our digital membership package starts at $85/year and $60/year for students. Use the code WORKSHOPS for 10% off your membership when you join SDA.
Interested in taking more than one workshop? Get 15% off every additional workshop you sign up for. Email us for details.
FORMAT
Each workshop spans eight days and is structured so that the majority of instruction will take place on Saturdays for a total of four hours – two hours each Saturday. A one hour moderated midweek meetup between each Saturday session will allow for workshop participants to further discussions, troubleshoot, and work in community with one another. Workshop instructors are not required to attend meetups but may if their time permits.
All workshop instruction and meetups will take place online over Zoom. For more information and to download the app, please visit zoom.com. We are happy to provide technical support at events@surfacedesign.org.
Recordings will be made available to each participant until the end of 2024.
Supply lists are listed under each workshop description and available to download.
CONTACT
Please contact us with any questions at events@surfacedesign.org