Weaving Water Workshop: Free Fiber and Indigo for All

SATURDAY, MAY 18 | 3PM – 5PM (COME AND GO AS YOU PLEASE)

OUTSIDE IN THE MMAM GARDENS | FREE

Admission required for gallery visits. The workshop will be moved indoors in case of inclement weather.

MMAM will host a public Weaving Water Workshop on Saturday May 18 from 3:00-5:00pm (come and go as you please). Registration is preferred, but not required. Drop in and become a part of a pop-up public indigo and fiber art studio designed by Minneapolis artist Sarah Nassif. Sarah and her Weaving Water Workshops create space for people to gather, play with natural dye and fiber, and share personal connections to textile traditions, water bodies and the Mississippi River. Water is integral to every stage of cloth production, and our shared past, present and future hinges on our collective care for it.

You will transform plain cloth through a series of steps: folding and binding, wetting it in water collected from the Mississippi River, dipping the bundle in an organic indigo dye vat, and unfolding it to reveal the pattern made. These dyed materials are transformed once more as you weave them into new cloth on a SAORI loom, obscuring the patterns as they become part of a new whole. The resulting community-created fabric will become part of Karen Goulet and Monique Verdin’s exhibition Aabijijiwan / Ukeyat yanalleh.