Designing with Pom Poms
Adult Workshop with artists Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky
Spend a relaxing evening exploring your creativity!
Start off by learning a little about the history of poms poms, their use by leading fashion designers, and how pom poms can be used to embellish existing clothing, accessories and even interior design. We will also look at color, texture, and pattern in the design of your pom poms, and what effect combining these have. Using a rainbow of yarn you will create your own designer pom poms which you can use to embellish existing clothing and objects, or create a toggle which can be clipped to anything or given as a gift to a friend.
Friday, April 22, 2022
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Members $10, Ticketed at $20 with admission
There will be a drinks and snack bar, with one complimentary drink on us!
Maximum capacity of 40 persons
Ticket price includes all workshop materials.
About the Artists
Rhona Weppler & Trevor Mahovsky
Rhonda Weppler and Trevor Mahovsky, based in New York and Toronto respectively, are artists who have worked collaboratively since 2004. Their work, laborious and handmade, is concerned with material culture and our relationship to the world of things. Their practice has increasingly incorporated aspects of craft that are communal and more broadly collaborative, such as the production of DIY tutorial videos, the distribution of source files for the making of versions of their works, the hosting of virtual crafting bees, and facilitating other collaborative public projects within and without institutional settings. Their current ongoing project, Crafts Abyss, produced in conjunction with and hosted by the Museum of Arts & Design, NYC, was first created during the 2020 edition of Contemporary Calgary’s Collider residency.
Other exhibitions include: National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa), LABoral (Gijon), Dos de Mayo (Madrid), Aurora (Dallas), Vancouver Art Gallery, Flux Night (Atlanta), Art Gallery of Alberta (Edmonton), Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver), Power Plant (Toronto), Musee d’art Contemporain de Montreal, Tokyo Wonder Site, loop-raum (Berlin), 516 Arts (Albuquerque), Art Gallery of Nova Scotia (Halifax), Alter Space (San Francisco), Glow (Washington DC). Mahovsky has written for journals such as Artforum and for catalogues such as Liz Magor (MACM: Montreal, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst: Zurich, and Hamburg Kunstverein). In 2017, Weppler was the inaugural artist in residence with the MFA Art Practice program at the School of Visual Arts, New York, and in 2018 she completed a major project for the Community Arts Initiative, Artists Project program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.