Skill Level: Beginner (no prior experience)
Workshop Fee: $120
Materials Fee: $25
Max Students: 8
Minimum Age: 18
Lunch: 1pm-1:30pm Students bring lunch

Saturday March 9 2024, 10:30am-5pm
@ Cary House 19 Cary Lane, Salem NY

Create your own wearable felted shawl during this one-day intensive. Using the hands-on process of wet felting, you will learn how to transform wool and silk fibers into a piece of textile art. We will work with wool and silk applique techniques, wool nepps, wool locks, recycled sari silk, recycled cashmere threads, and silk hankies to create depth and texture in the fabric you create.

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.