MAD invites NYC educators to join us for a teacher workshop all about dolls! This program will begin with a curator-led tour of Barbie®: A Cultural Icon
followed by a doll-making workshop with fiber artist and former MAD Artist Studios resident Elodie Blanchard. Join us for a fun day connecting with fellow teachers and exploring textile and fiber art techniques for bringing playful characters to life.
MAD will provide all art materials, as well as coffee and morning refreshments.
Due to limited capacity, we prioritize registration for current NYC teachers. If you are a retired educator interested in attending, please email irin.mahaparn@madmuseum.org to be added to our waitlist.
New York State Educators will earn 4 CTLE hours.
We strive to make our programs accessible to all teachers. If you are experiencing financial hardship and do not teach at a NYC Title 1 school, please email the education department at education@madmuseum.org to request a fee waiver.
About the Artist
Elodie Blanchard is a textile artist based in Brooklyn, NY working between art and design. Her expertise is in textiles, from creating and fabricating large scale fiber installations, designing woven and printed textiles, embroidering fiber pieces and sharing her passion for recycling and material 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 Museum of Arts and Design and Artist in residence at the lycee Francais in NYC and exhibit her work at the Somerset house in London.
