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Photo weaving introduces visual patterns, textures, and rhythms into existing two-dimensional imagery. In this workshop, you will take favorite photographs to another level, weaving them by hand into art that melds textiles, paper craft, and sculpture. The delightfully glitchy results can foster new ideas about time, memory, and non-linear narrative.
You will learn techniques and discuss tools that make the paper cutting and weaving process easier. You will study the work of artists who weave with photos and consider how different weaving patterns affect the chosen imagery. The instructor will discuss ideas for finishing and displaying your work, or the option of developing it further to create functional work for the home. During the workshop you will complete one to two weavings, depending on their size and complexity.
No prior weaving experience is required.
Please bring printouts of photos you’d like to experiment with, whether they are family photos, archival documents, or found imagery; guidelines will be sent to participants before the workshop. Feel free to also bring decorative paper you’ve made or collected.
Rena Tom is an artist, writer, and independent curator based in Berkeley, CA whose interests span photography, prints, textiles, zines and artist’s books, and installation. She holds an MA in Critical Craft Studies from Warren Wilson College and dual degrees in English and Mechanical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara. A deep curiosity about objects, making, and makers, as well as the spaces they inhabit, is the throughline spanning 20+ years as a craftsperson, designer, shopkeeper, gallerist, instructor, and event producer. Rena utilizes mundane objects, optical illusions, and found imagery to question and reframe everyday experience. She runs the micropublishing project Not Great, Not Terrible, volunteers with a community-oriented Riso printshop, and produces large-scale participatory art installations plus the occasional pirate radio broadcast.
Website: www.renatom.net
Fee: MarinMOCA Members: $120; Non-members $150
Materials: An additional materials fee of $16 will be paid directly to the instructor. Please bring a self-healing cutting mat, a craft knife, 12” or 18” ruler, scissors, pencil, and a notebook.
Where: Marin Museum of Contemporary Art; 1210 Fifth Avenue, San Rafael (at B Street)
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Fees are due at the time of registration. You may cancel up to one week prior to the start of the class and the registration fee, less $25 for processing, will be refunded to you. Should you cancel less than one week before a class/workshop begins you will not receive a refund of any portion of the registration fee.
If MarinMOCA cancels a class/workshop, you will receive a full refund.
Saturday, October 31; 11am to 3pm
Instructor: Catherine Cruz
Materials Fee: An additional materials fee of $15 will be paid to the instructor