Sign on for a live artist-led tutorial on experimenting with craft and design processes using recycled materials found at home. During this fun and informal workshop held in celebration of New York Textile Month, MAD Artist Studios alum Jamie Boyle will guide participants through a contemplative weaving lesson that encourages deeper connections to one another and the world around us.

MAD’s Digital Drop-ins are for participants of all ages, backgrounds, and skill levels. Following the demonstration, participants will have time to independently work on their project and share with “neighbors” in the virtual class.

All Digital Drop-ins are 45 minutes. Registrants will receive an email 24 hours in advance of the program with instructions for accessing the workshop on Zoom.

If you are a Trustee, Patron, or Luminaries member, please contact Catherine Farrell at catherine.farrell@madmuseum.org to receive instructions for joining this program.

Suggested materials

• Small rectangle of sturdy cardboard (around 4" x 6", or whatever size feels good in your hands)
• 2 pencils or small dowel rods
• Masking tape
• Scissors
• Yarn or yarn-like materials such as string, twine, shoelaces, ribbon, fabric strips, etc.
• Comb or fork
• Ruler (optional, but helpful)
• Yarn needles (optional, but helpful)

About the artist

Jamie Boyle is an artist and weaving teacher based in Brooklyn, New York. She is drawn to the practice of handweaving for its physicality and relationship to the body and performance, as well as the possibility weaving holds for centering the sense of touch in the experience of the work (both the process and the object). The complicated ready-made qualities of cloth—that cloth often holds both comfort and harm at once in its fibers, structure, history, symbolism—drives her current research.