Do you have a sewing machine that you don't use because you're not sure how? Have you been considering getting back to machine sewing but it's been a minute or a decade since you've used your machine? Join us for a day of practical, playful projects to get you (re)acquainted with sewing. Everyone will stitch a sampler of the stitches particular to their machines, and gain confidence and a better understanding of how to use their machines for everyday sewing projects. Required portable functioning sewing machine (including power cord, pedal, and other accessories you may have), sharp scissors, fine point permanent marker.

One Day Workshop

Tuition: $130 + $10 Studio Fee

Saturday, 1/28, 9-4 pm (one day)

CEUs: n/a

Faculty:

Crystal Cawley is an artist who works with paper, textiles, collected objects, and re-purposed materials. Her work explores ideas of identity, time, and loss, and draws on various traditional skills like embroidery and letterpress printing. She is a member of Portland's Pickwick Independent Press, a printmaking collective. She has shown her work around the US and in England, Greece, and Japan. Her work is in the collections of the Boston Public Library; Columbia University Library; The Library of Congress; Maine Women Writers Collection; MOMA/Franklin Furnace Artists’ Book Collection; the Smithsonian Institution Graphic Arts Collection at the National Museum of American History, Washington, D.C.; and the Munakata Shiko Museum, Aomori, Japan, among others. She has received grants from the Maine Arts Commission, the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, and the Pollock Krasner Foundation.

Supplies:

Portable functioning sewing machine (including power cord, pedal, and other accessories you may have), sharp scissors, fine point permanent marker.

COVID POLICIES:

All students + faculty are required to:

• provide proof of vaccination + booster immediately after registration by emailing an image of their vaccination card to cstudy@meca.edu