Skill Level: Beginner (no prior experience)
Workshop Fee: $130
Materials Fee: $12
Max Students: 6
Minimum Age: 18

Saturday, March 30, 2024 10am-3:30pm
@ Cary House 19 Cary Lane, Salem NY

Learn the art of sculptural wet felting and needle felting during this one day intensive to create your own unique wooly bird house! 

Felted wool has natural water proof qualities, retains heat and has been used by humans for over thousands of years to create dwellings called yurts and we can apply these techniques to create uniquely formed birdhouses. 

You will learn how to wet felt hollow three dimensional forms and how to embellish those forms through needle felting. This technique once learned can be applied to making hats, shoes, bowls and more!

Instructor Bio: Mallory Zondag is a Mixed Media Fiber artist and artist educator. Her art explores our tenuous relationship with the continuous growth and decay of the natural world and humanity’s place within those cycles using felted wool, wax, fibers, fabrics, and objects both found and recycled. Our collective fascination and repulsion towards natural processes, from blooming flowers to blooming molds, pushes her to sculpt moments of grotesque beauty, investigating this duality through the meditative and hands-on practices of wet felting, weaving, sculpting, and stitching. 

Her work has been exhibited in both solo and group shows nationally and internationally. She was an Artist In Residence at The Allentown Art Museum, The Wassaic Project, and many schools and community organizations. During many of these residencies, she has led community art programs where felted wool living walls are collaboratively created with students of all ages and abilities. She was commissioned to create the sensory space for Artsquest's Accessible Arts program and was recently commissioned to recreate a component of one of Amalia Mesa-Bains's installations for her retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.

There is a 25% cancellation fee for all workshops and classes if requested with two weeks of prior notice. Deposits and payments are nonrefundable within two weeks of the scheduled date.