Artist Workshop Series: Embroidery with Lan "Florence" Yee
Jan 28, 2025
Where: Southern Alberta Art Gallery
When: January 28th from 5pm-7pm
Join artist Lan “Florence” Yee for the first of our 2025 Artist Workshop series. This workshop invites participants to explore their relationship to text and textile imagery together through hand embroidery. As seemingly mundane images and words flood our everyday lives (through signage, templates, media, and more), artists can parse out their deeply affective nature by taking away the veneer of neutrality. Text and textile imagery function as mutual interventions into each other’s spheres of influence.
Participants are asked to bring both text (eg. words, notes, lists, signs, conversations stuck in your head, etc.) and fabrics that may be significant or yet-to-be fully known to you (eg. a handkerchief, t-shirt, patterned cloth, etc.). This workshop will include creative text prompts to respond to your objects. We will combine the text and textile through two basic hand-embroidery techniques that Lan will demonstrate, the satin stitch and the brick stitch. Embroidery hoops, markers, needles, and various thread colours will be provided.