Sashiko Mending and Repairing
Summer Youth | Available
Students will learn a different style of sashiko stitching each day and have a beautiful sampler at the end of the week and learn to apply their stitches to mend or repair personal clothing. Fiber artist Becca Barolli will start each student off honing their fine motor skills and then build up to make bigger aesthetic changes through the addition of color.
Sashiko has its origins as a Japanese Quilting and Embroidery practice. With a simple running stitch, it creates bold, geometric patterns on textiles.
**Students please bring in torn jeans, shirts, dresses anything that needs mending or repairing**
Becca Barolli
Becca Barolli was born in 1988 and raised in North Granby, Connecticut. She received a BFA in photography from the University of Connecticut in 2010 and an MFA from the San
Francisco Art Institute in 2016. As a graduate student she received a Cadogan scholarship from The San Francisco Foundation and SOMArts Cultural Center in 2015 and a year later was awarded the Ella King Torrey Award at graduation for creative innovation in her studio practice. Becca currently lives and works in Bethlehem, Connecticut. She has completed a residency at
The Studios at Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA and was the 2019 Senior Fellow at Gallery
Route One in Point Reyes Station, CA. She has exhibited work at the de Young Museum,
Andrea Schwartz Gallery and Chandran Gallery in San Francisco, CA, Miranda Kuo Gallery in New York, NY and Last Projects in Los Angeles, CA. Her work is collected internationally.