Introduction to Fiber Arts
Summer Youth | Available
This class will explore several different fiber art techniques including weaving, knotting, embroidery and hand sewing. Participants will be introduced to these textile techniques that can be used to make functional objects and art works. We will make samples of each craft before beginning to combine the techniques together to create objects with multiple textures and materials.
There is a $4 registration fee included in tuition.
Members will have the $4 deducted from tuition.
This class is held in the Fiber Studio. There will be a set of steps to walk down.
Please note that classes at Brookfield Craft Center must meet a minimum number of 2 registrations for the class to run. Students will be notified within a week's notice whether their class will be held. If the class is canceled due to low enrollment, students may request to be transferred to another class or be refunded in full.
Emma Welty
Emma Welty is an artist and educator with a textile centered studio practice. Welty completed a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Fibers and Art History and an MFA/MA in Visual Art and Art History at Purchase College.
Welty’s work utilizes ancestral traditions of Armenian carpet and needlelace to explore economies of labor, notions of “heirloom” and cultural transmissions within a digital diaspora. Welty has held residencies at the Newport Art Museum, Museum of Arts and Design and the Woodbury Public Library. Welty’s work has recently been exhibited in the Newport Art Museum, Piano Craft Gallery in Boston, Joseph Gross Gallery at the University of Arizona, the Gilbert Gallery at Miss Porter’s School, Heirloom Gallery in Brooklyn, Studio Hill Gallery in Woodbury, CT and the Jamestown Art Center.