Upcoming Event
Embroidery Workshop In collaboration with Lorena Molina: a place to hold you
Join artist, stephanie concepcion ramirez, for a hand-sewing session at Lawndale Art Center. The session will explore how the process of hand-sewing can be used as a meditative practice to harness our own personal intentions and stand in our contradictions by weaving together our own personal experiences alongside ideals we hold about the world around us. Participants are highly encouraged to bring something to write in like a personal journal or notepad and item(s) on which they want to sew or embroider onto, something that they currently own or is already available to them, ie. a sock, a pillow, a piece of clothing or rag.
Needles and threads will be provided for each participant.
Open to all levels.
About artist
stephanie concepcion ramirez is an artist from PG County, Maryland. Her practice utilizes the language of photography with site-specific installations, video and text. Her work is based on notions of memory, personal and historical amnesia that trace the veins of the Central American diaspora. In an attempt to reconcile with her personal and cultural histories and memories, she creates work to validate truth, false memories, filtered history and fantasy.
She received her BFA from Old Dominion University and her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin. She currently lives and works on the traditional lands of the Akokisa and Karankawa tribes.