Cost of Admission:$10 supply cost for members; $20/non-members

This is an in person event.

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT

Explore the versatile art of needle felting and celebrate local pollinators with award winning fiber artist, Mallory Zondag. During the four hour workshop you will learn how to use wool and a felting needle as drawing and painting tools to create your very own realistic, larger than life moth or butterfly. You will learn how to blend colors using color theory to bring your creations into living color, how to add the fine details found in the delicate wings and how to shape and sculpt wool into three dimensional elements like the body, the fur and the antennae. This workshop will bring you through all the basics of needle felting and you will leave with a full formed moth or butterfly to bring home.

Mallory Zondag is a mixed-media fiber artist and artist educator. Her experience with textiles while in art school led her to create both independent and community sculpture through a variety of fiber art mediums. She explores deeply personal and connective universal stories through the meditative and hands-on practices of wet felting, weaving, sculpting, and stitching, seeking to bring the ephemeral into physical being. The growth and decay of the natural world, the duality of discomfort and attraction we feel towards it, and humanity's place within this dichotomy informs her dimensional textures and sculptural pieces.

Zondag’s work has been exhibited at The Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA; The Allentown Art Museum, PA: The International Biennial of Textile Art Scythia, Ukraine; View Arts and Culture Center, Old Forge, NY; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; Cornell University, Ithica, NY; Towson University, MD; Ceres Gallery, NYC, NY: and Main Street Studio, Ballston Lake, NY. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at Acadia National Park, The Allentown Art Museum, and The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY.