Crafts & DIY

Whether you're weaving a basket for the first time or styling a terrarium, our craft classes give you the skills to brighten up your decor and plant the seed for a new creative hobby.


April

As the mushroom season awakens, discover how and where to hunt for Oysters, Inky Caps, Wine Caps, Dryad's Saddle, Reishi, and the early spring Chicken Mushroom. Even the elusive Morels occur throughout the metropolitan region, and spring is the ideal more...
254BOT330 04/24 Th 10:00am-1:00pm Sadowski
NYBG

Embroidery is tightly tied to human culture. The earliest known examples-intricately decorated clothes, boots, and hats found in Russia-date back to 30,000 BCE. NYC-based artist Jessica Maffia will teach you eight different stitches that you will use to create a more...
254CRF278 04/27 Su 11:00am-2:00pm Maffia
NYBG

Learn the basics of embroidery using botanical materials under the guidance of visual artist Jessica Maffia. Then, level up to our intermediate workshop to enhance your skills and explore different stitch patterns. You'll walk away with unique works of art more...
254CRF297 04/27 Su 11:00am-2:00pm Maffia
NYBG

May

Create a lush work of embroidery to brighten your home! NYC-based artist Jessica Maffia will explain four ways to transfer a design to fabric. You will learn seven basic stitches (lazy daisy, stem, back, French knot, straight, fern, and Rhodes) more...
254CRF259 05/18 Su 11:00am-2:00pm Maffia
NYBG

Join Margot Guralnick of Dog Walk Diary to learn how to make flatlay designs from nature's castoffs. Margot considers herself an accidental artist who, 10+ years ago, began gathering finds on dog walks and arranging them daily on found surfaces-- more...
254CRF270 05/18 Su 2:00pm-4:30pm Guralnick
NYBG
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