This four-week class will meet on Saturdays: March 22, 29, April 5, and 12. Each session is 2 hours.
In this class, participants will learn how to prepare a loom using simple materials that you can find at home. The teaching artist will guide the group through making their own pillows, with guidance for ways to stuff, sew and embellish their work. We will weave to relax, to express ourselves, to find community, and with the philosophy that there is no such thing as a mistake! Everyone will walk away with at least one finished wearable piece.
About the Instructors
Bennie Krause is a Seattle-born artist and poet currently residing in Maryland. An Alumni of Maryland Institute College of Art, they graduated in 2018 with BFA in Fibers. Working primarily with tactile processes of making, such as dyework, felting, and embroidery, Bennie Krause’s pieces often utilize the meeting of poetics and the human form. Informed by their identity as a disabled and LGBT person, much of their work is tinged with themes of nostalgia or longing, and explores the complicated nature of intimacy, desire, and bodily relationships. Currently, Bennie Krause is working as a teaching artist at Intertwine Arts, a New York Nonprofit founded to teach and share weaving with disabled communities.
Brandy Godsil is a North Carolina, Atlanta, and New York City based fiber artist, couturier, and on-set tailor. With a creative eye for custom tailoring, design, pattern making, and innovative textiles, Brandy has fit and tailored high-end garments for celebrity appearances such as Michael B. Jordan, Katy Perry Inauguration performance 2021, Ethan Hawke, Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, Gigi and Bella Hadid, Paul Rudd, Bryan Cranston, red carpet events, NYFW, editorial, and catalog photo shoots.
Brandy received her BFA in Textiles and Fashion Design from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Brandy teaches fashion design, sewing and patternmaking, textile arts, and drawing to students of all ages and abilities. She is co-founder and advisor of non profit weaving arts organization Intertwine Arts NYC where she teaches weaving, fiber arts, and sewing to people with disabilities around the U.S.
This class is produced in partnership with the Intertwine Arts.
