UPCOMING PROGRAM
Margot Becker
Weaving Workshop & Weaving Evenings
November 2-3rd & 8th
Description (Weaving Weekend Workshop)
An opportunity to immerse yourself in weaving and create a textile of your own design while learning the parts and mechanisms of the floor loom. Mentored by a professional weaver and artist, each student will work through planning a project, warping a floor loom and weaving a finished piece. Gain fundamental understanding of how weaving tension, sett, pattern draft, threading and treadling come together to shape fiber into a unique textile. With room for guided independent work as well as step by step instructions as needed, this 2 day intensive is open to beginner and intermediate weavers seeking to gain better understanding and confidence on the loom.
Dates: November 2nd-3rd, 2024
Time: 10 AM – 5 PM
Price: $350 per participant
Participant Limit: 3 people (1 loom per person)
Register: Email Margot Becker
Description (Weaving Evening)
Weaving is for everyone and its uses are boundless. The interlocking grid can be used to create images, architectural structure, domestic utilitarian objects and more. Join weaver and artist Margot Becker in for an evening of frame loom and off loom textile creation. This program is open to everyone. We will work on creating unique woven art pieces out of fabric, paper, reeds and thread. This is a free event open to curious beginners and seasoned weavers alike with guided projects available as well as the opportunity to go your own direction.
Dates: November 8th, 2024
Time: 6 PM – 8 PM
Price: Free
Register: Email Margot Becker
Bio (Margot Becker)
Margot Becker is an artist, weaver, and educator based in Hudson, NY. Through tactile processes she explores sense of place, the natural environment, and the connection between the individual and the communal subconscious. Her work has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston. Margot Becker has attended residencies at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, ACRE, Mildred’s Lane, Rabbit Island and AZ West. She received her BA in studio art from Bard College in 2009 and her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2020 where she was awarded the Edwin Anthony & Adelaine Boudreaux Cadogan Scholarship and the Toni A. Lowenthal Memorial Scholarship for Excellence in Textiles.