Join Artist Studios alum Kat Ryals for an open bar and evening workshop exploring collaging with upcycled textiles. Inspired by historic Arts & Crafts rug designs, participants will learn to creatively reuse craft materials, such as patterned and transparent fabrics, mixed beads, and a variety of trims, to create a rug-inspired collage design on board. All skill levels welcome!

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

Kat Ryals holds a BFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design and an MFA & Adv. Certificate in Museum Education from Brooklyn College. She has shown her work nationally, including recent two-person exhibitions at Elijah Wheat Showroom (2023) and Ortega Y Gasset Projects (2022), in group exhibitions with ChaShaMa (2020, 2021), Ortega Y Gasset Projects (2019), and The Wassaic Project (2018, 2019, 2023), and in solo booths at SPRING/BREAK Art Show (2020, 2022). In addition to being a 2024 MAD Artist Studios resident, she has also attended residencies at the Wassaic Project (2017, 2019, 2022), ChaNorth (2019), The Peter Bullough Foundation (2021), and received a Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center (2018). She is a 2022 Joseph Robert Foundation grant recipient, and has been featured in The New York Times, White Hot Magazine, Artnet, Forbes, and Hyperallergic. Originally from Arkansas, she lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.