Join Artist Studios alum Elodie Blanchard for an open bar and evening workshop exploring weaving with upcycled textiles. Participants will learn applied techniques such as knotting, tying, and braiding to design and craft wall hanging or fiber art jewelry. 

Design Happy Hour invites the public ages 21 and up to enjoy an open bar of wine and beer while exploring design techniques with some of the city's most exciting makers and creatives. All activities take place in the Museum’s studio classroom. 

About the Artist 

A 2018 MAD artist in residence, Elodie Blanchard is a textile artist based in Brooklyn, NY working between art and design. Her expertise is in textiles, creating and fabricating large scale fiber installations, designing woven and printed textiles, embroidering fiber pieces, and sharing her passion for recycling and materials with others. 

Born in Grenoble, France in 1976, Blanchard studied sculpture at l’Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris, fashion at l’Ecole des Arts Appliqués Duperré, where she explored the material intelligence of textiles, and performance at CalArts, where she collaborated with musicians and dancers. 

She established her design studio in 2005, and over the course of her career, collaborated with numerous architects, designers, and brands, developing textile collections and working on large scale works for public spaces, institutions, residences, offices, and hotels, in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Houston and abroad. She was most recently “interiors + sources” designer of the year, artist in residence at the Lycée Français de New York  
and has exhibited her work at the Somerset house in London.