Join artist Megumi Shauna Arai for a 2 day intensive Patchwork Noren making workshop.
ποΈ Saturday, December 13th & Sunday, December 14th
π 67 West St. Studio 513
Noren are Japanese fabric dividers, often hung between doorways, at entrances and on the wall. These pieces are both functional in delineating space and artistic in composition.Β
- Saturday, December 13th: we will start by dying cotton fabric in two provided natural dye vats (Indigo & Walnut) and begin our composition with our uniquely pigmented fabric and patches of antique fabric.Β
- Sunday, December 14th: we will finish our compositions, pin and sew the pieces. All materials provided along with hands-on instruction. For those who do not regularly use a sewing machine, there will be instruction and Megumi will assist in sewing.Β
Enjoy drinks and light refreshments.
ARTIST BIO
Megumi Shauna Arai (b. 1989) lives and works in New York City. She is interested in many things, including points of encounter, practices of embodiment, enfolding and unfolding aesthetics and the material and immaterial as interconnected. She has an interdisciplinary BA in Sociology, Embodiment Studies, Political Science and Mysticism from the CUNY Unique and Individualized Studies Program. She will be an artist in residence at COMMONS/OPPES in Chiba, Japan this fall. Her next solo show opens at KOKI ARTS in Tokyo, Japan in November, 2025. Recent exhibitions include Immanent Infinite, Object & Thing (2025); Group Shop Show, Bridget Donahue Gallery (2024); Summer Arrangement: Object & Thing at LongHouse (2023); Object & Thing at Madoo (2022); At The Noyes House: Blum & Poe, Mendes Wood DM and Object & Thing (2020); Lore: Reimagined, Wing Luke Museum (2018) and Midst, Jacob Lawrence Gallery (2018). Recent residencies include Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Library; Headlands Center for the Arts and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Pedagogical collaborations include Field Meridians, an art-based urban ecology curriculum creating tools for resilience through social practice in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, The Museum of Modern Art public programs and The Mothership, an eco-feminist art and ecology center in Tangier, Morocco.
