Woven paintings collaboration between Sofia and 8-12 year old students at Orakei School Sofia Minson on the experience: "What a joy it has been to ...

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August 2018 Facilitated by Kirstyn Hom, Ava Sayaka Rosen, Kristin Scheel Open Windows Cooperative, a community print shop, bindery and collaboration space in the Bayview, hosted a public weaving project at sites around our neighborhood throughout the summer. Our hand-built loom traveled on casters to pressure points around the transit corridor of Third Avenue. We invited friends and passersby to contribute old clothes and leftover fabric —material with stories to tell— to recycle into…

Heyo! Local friends – quick note to let you know I’m helping put together a community art project with my favorite local store, Stumble & Relish. We will be weaving with fabric strips into a fence and it’s going to be AWESOME. No special skills required, but may involve sitting on the ground (read: keep...Read More

Andrea Vail creates community weaving events where people arrive as strangers and leave as friends. Hands working together untangle social tension as diverse participants - who might not otherwise meet - sit side by side to make something remarkable. Find out how these socially-engaged art events evolved. Take part in her next one at SDA's Made/Aware conference at Arrowmont in October!...