Soft Sculpture with guest Instructor Alexander Hernandez
Adult Course | This program is completed
In this workshop students will learn a variety of hand and machine sewing techniques. These skills will be applied in creating sculptural forms. Explore strategies of applying needlecraft techniques to create soft sculpture using a variety of textile and alternative materials.
Techniques: Hand and machine sewing techniques - Soft-sculptural techniques - upcycling sewing
Outcomes: Applying a variety of sewing techniques to sculptural forms - Sustainability and alternative material dialogue - Resource for artists whose works sewing and textiles techniques - learn a new skill
- This program is being offered in partnership with Museo de las Americas:
https://museo.org/about-us/
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- needles, sewing machine and thread
- Variety of fabric remnants
- feel free to bring second-hand sewing materials
- poly-fil
- fabric paint and markers
Alexander Hernandez
Growing up as a sissy-boy who hated gym, craft was a way to create my own safe space where my love of American pop culture and Mexican upbringing could coexist. Through stitching my work explores intersectional identities rooted in immigrant experiences, gender expectations, HIV+ survival, and queer sensibilities. I patchwork together domestic fabrics, digitized prints, cultural textiles and pop-cultural artifacts to create Frankensteinian-like work that embraces layers and patterns. In the process I challenge gender roles and acculturation anxieties through visual code switching.
~Alexander Hernandez