Adult Workshop: Free Motion Embroidery with Perla Segovia
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Saturday, Nov 4, 2023 10am - 12pm
Location
Tucson Museum of Art
140 N Main Ave
Details
Explore free motion embroidery, a technique where one uses the sewing needle to draw, with CUMBI: Textiles, Society, and Memory in Andean South America artist Perla Segovia. Learn how to embroider a photograph using the same technique as Perla employed in the exhibition. You will need to bring a favorite picture representing home for this workshop and will work collaboratively with another person in the class to build community/friendships through the arts. Each person will embroider their new friend’s photo onto canvas and will get to keep this work and take it home as a memory keepsake of this new relationship. The needle serves as a pinpoint in time that records memories with thread.
Price:
Non-members- $75
Members- $65
Background:
The idea of embroidering other people’s memories started when Segovia made the installation “In their shoes.” This is an ongoing installation where she accepts photographs from immigrants in their homeland, and then quickly replicated these images (without sketching) onto canvas using freehand machine embroidery. This process reflects the abrupt and quick decision-making many immigrants must make.
“In their shoes” is the catalyst that led to the work that will be exhibited in CUMBI.
Artist’s Bio:
Perla Segovia is a maker and an artist born in Lima, Peru and currently lives in Tucson, Arizona. Perla’s work has been featured at the museum and is currently on view in the exhibition CUMBI.
Please note the elevator to the Alice Chaiten Baker Center for Art Education is out of order. The building remains accessible through the entrance located on the south side of the building along Alameda, the door is labeled in larger white vinyl letters “166.” Please call 520-616-2692 for assistance.
