Skill Level: Beginner (no prior experience)
Workshop Fee: $50-$65
Materials Fee: $10-$15
Max Students: 8
Minimum Age: 18

Thursday, April 18, 2024 1pm-3pm. Mini Forest Floor $60
Saturday, June 15, 2024 12pm-4pm Big Forest Floor $80

@ Cary House 19 Cary Lane, Salem NY

Learn the art of tapestry weaving during this (2 or 4) hour workshop. Using a frame loom and a variety of yarns and fibers such as wool roving, silk, and wool locks, you will learn how to weave patterns and textures to evoke the mossy magic of the forest floor. The (longer) workshop will cover the basics of warping a frame loom and finishing off your weaving along with four different weaving techniques to bring your moss textile to life! The (shorter) workshop will cover four different weaving techniques to bring your moss textile to life!

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.