Join Artist Megumi Shauna Arai for a Sashiko Coaster making workshop, returning this winter for a new edition.
🗓️ Sunday, March 1st
⏰ 4 to 7pm
📍 67 West St., Studio 513
Over the course of a relaxed Sunday afternoon, participants will cut, compose, pin, and hand-stitch a set of four unique sashiko coasters. This hands-on workshop offers an introduction to sashiko techniques while encouraging personal expression through pattern, rhythm, and material. The finished set makes a meaningful object to keep or gift.
All materials are provided, along with guided instruction from the artist.
Drinks and light refreshments will be served.
ARTIST BIO
Megumi Shauna Arai (b. 1989) lives and works in New York City. Her practice explores points of encounter, practices of embodiment, enfolding and unfolding aesthetics, and the interconnectedness of material and immaterial worlds. She holds an interdisciplinary BA in Sociology, Embodiment Studies, Political Science, and Mysticism from the CUNY Unique and Individualized Studies Program.
Arai was an artist-in-residence at COMMONS/OPPES in Chiba, Japan. Her recent solo exhibition was presented at KOKI ARTS, Tokyo (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 the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Library, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Her pedagogical collaborations include Field Meridians, an art-based urban ecology curriculum focused on social practice and resilience in Crown Heights, Brooklyn; The Museum of Modern Art public programs; and The Mothership, an eco-feminist art and ecology center in Tangier, Morocco.
