Stitching Communities is a workshop with the objective to promote and foster traditional textile techniques originating from Mexico, and strengthen social networks among recent Mexican immigrants through the creation and presentation of their crafts. After a week-long intensive workshop the artists will present their creations. These unique creations will be for sale!
Saturday August 23, 3-5pm
3pm: Presentation by Carla Fernández
4-5pm: Artist reception
Refreshments and hors d’oeuvres will be served
Fernández recently mentioned in Wallpaper Magazine:
Read the article here
Carla Fernández is the founder of Flora, a mobile workshop/fashion-laboratory that travels Mexico visiting indigenous communities, specifically cooperatives of women who create handmade textiles. Flora has developed a unique pedagogy where participants to their workshops communicate through design even in those places where only indigenous dialects are used. After ten years of research Carla Fernández has collected and catalogued garment designs that were in risk of extinction. Contrary to the kitsch stereotype that is exported about Mexico, ancient patterning is an incredibly elaborate system of pleats, folds and seams to construct a vast array of garments using squares and rectangles only. This has been the source of inspiration for her clothing label.
Special thanks to the Walter & Elise Haas Fund for critical funding and to the Consulado General de Mexico, especially Jonathan Chait, Cultural Affairs. Sincere gratitude to Norma Listman for her vision and dedication as organizer of Stitching Communities.
Image above: Courtesy of Carla Fernández.
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