Botanical Embroidery Workshop: Both Sessions

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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 that you can incorporate into your work or home space. Save when you register for both sessions! All materials included.

Botanical Embroidery Basics
April 27, 11 am - 2 pm, 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. Practice eight different stitches to create a botanically-inspired, small work of embroidery to hang in your home. Find inspiration in nature and modern art to bring a contemporary twist to this ancient craft.

Intermediate Botanical Embroidery
May 18, 11 am - 2pm, NYBG
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 stitches (lazy daisy, stem, back, French knot, straight, fern, and Rhodes) that you will use to embroider the design.

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Schedule:	2 Sundays, 4/27 & 5/18, 11am-2pm
Times:	11:00am-02:00pm EDT
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Meeting Date Start Time End Time Sunday, April 27, 2025 11:00am 02:00pm Sunday, May 18, 2025 11:00am 02:00pm Meeting Date Start Time End Time Sunday, April 27, 2025 11:00am 02:00pm Sunday, May 18, 2025 11:00am 02:00pm
Instructor:	Jessica Maffia Jessica Maffia Jessica Maffia Jessica Maffia is a visual artist born and raised in New York City. Her work has been exhibited throughout the US and is currently in the Flat Files of Pierogi Gallery in downtown Manhattan. Maffia created the artwork for musician Childish Gambino's two singles "Summertime Magic" and "Feels Like Summer." Her solo exhibition at Denise Bibro Fine Art in Chelsea featured her large, photorealistic pencil drawings of urban cracks and residue producing unexpectedly beautiful surfaces. Maffia is the recipient of 10 artist residency fellowships and two grants from the Hells Kitchen Foundation. Her work is featured on the covers of Fabio Gironi's philosophy book "Naturalizing Badiou: Mathematical Ontology and Structural Realism" and poet Firas Sulaiman's latest book "As if My Name is a Mistaken Sign." The artist's installation Lanterns for Peace was exhibited in five sites throughout the US in response to the 2016 presidential elections. Maffia worked live on her current series of self-portraits at Spring Break Art Show in 2018. She looks forward to her upcoming residency at the Albee Foundation in Fall 2019. For more information, visit her instagram page.
Location:	NYBG,
Session Number:	254CRF297
Price:	Price Non-Member : $190.00 Member : $170.00 Waitlist: $0.00

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