Image courtesy of Shannon Downey
Embroidery Workshop
with Shannon Downey
January 14, 2021 | 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM CST
Doors Open at 5:00, Workshop Begins at 5:30
Tickets
$25 General
$20 NCHM Member/Student with ID
Learn how to stab your stress away in this hour and a half intro to embroidery workshop with Badass Cross Stitch!
You will learn about all of the materials and how to use them, how to get set up, designing your piece, how to work with patterns, and backstitch to start. You will be a pro stitcher in no time.
These workshops are seriously fun and you will inevitably meet other rad humans in these small group gatherings.
This workshop will take place outside on our spacious front lawn, so be sure to dress for the weather. The in-person crowd will be kept small to ensure we can socially distance all chairs and tables for everyone’s safety. We also request that all guests, speakers, and staff remain masked to ensure everyone’s safety.
About Shannon Downey
Shannon Downey better known as Badass Cross Stitch, is a community organizer disguised as a fiber artist and craftivist. She blends her politics, activism, and art into projects that are designed to inspire others to take action, think, discuss, engage with democracy and their community, and find some digital/analog balance. She currently lives in her RV full-time and is traversing the country bringing community and art activism to the country she still believes in.
She is the instigator behind #RitasQuilt and @BadassHerstory and is on a quest to teach 1 million people to embroider and invite society to rethink how we categorize and value craft and art.
Her life motto is: Make Art. Smash Systems.