ART SOCIAL: CREWELWORK
Led by Erica-Lynn Huberty
$25 ($22.50 for Members)
Art Social offers a supportive and judgment-free session of art/craftmaking and socializing. Bring your friends and expect to make new ones while tapping into your creative selves. Workshops will be led by experts in their practice, and the projects are designed to be easily and enjoyably accomplished by all skill levels.
Have you always admired gorgeously-coloured embroidery? Are you eager to channel your inner Renaissance Queen? Then Crewelwork is for you… Crewelwork (or Crewel Embroidery) is often associated with England during the 16th to 18th centuries, and from England it was brought to the American colonies. It was particularly popular in New England, including our own Eastern Long Island! Crewelwork was primarily considered “women’s work” and thus was also used to convey subversive and feminist messages through symbolism.
Fiber artist Erica-Lynn Huberty will lead this 2-hour workshop where you will immerse yourself in vibrant colours, rich textures, and intricate designs. Crewel embroidery uses wool to create “surface” stitches, which are more textural than regular embroidery. A wide variety of stitches are used to follow a design outline applied to the fabric. There is no counting or math involved, Crewelwork is a style of free embroidery, similar to drawing. The workshop will teach participants stitches such as: stem stitch, chain stitch, satin, couched, seed and split stitches, and French knots. Participants will be given a choice of traditional designs drawn onto squares of woven linen and stitched using needles, wool thread, and an embroidery hoop.
This session will coincide with the release of Erica-Lynn Huberty’s new novel, The Crewel Wing. Books will be available for purchase on site.
Art Social admission fee includes a complimentary glass of wine/beer/soft drink and lite bites.
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Erica-Lynn Huberty
Erica-Lynn Huberty is a pioneer in the contemporary fiber arts movement. Her work mingles textiles and sewing arts techniques with watercolor and ink, embroidery, crochet and knitting and loom-woven grounds, exploring the historical tradition of “women’s work.” Her art has been exhibited at Guild Hall, the Parrish Art Museum, Racine Art Museum, WI; David&Schweitzer Contemporary, Brooklyn; Ricco Maresca Gallery and Denise Bibro Fine Arts in Manhattan. She has created site-specific installations at the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Center, the Leiber Collection Museum Garden, the Gardens of Onna House, East Hampton, an abandoned beach house in Bridgehampton, the Sag Harbor Whaling & Historical Museum in Sag Harbor, NY, and on Mary Mattingly’s Wetland, for The Parrish Art Museum’s ambitious “Radical Seafaring” exhibition. Her work is in the permanent collections of Onna House and the Parrish Art Museum. She is also the author of the upcoming Gothic novel, The Crewel Wing about a woman embroidery artist in late-Victorian England.
Photo: BeBe Huberty
Sponsors
Art Social Media Partner: James Lane Post
Guild Hall’s Learning + New Works programs are made possible through the Vital Projects Fund, the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Endowment Fund, and The Melville Straus Family Endowment.
Additional support provided by Friends of Learning + New Works: Julie Raynor Gross, Stephanie Joyce and Jim Vos, S. Kutler Foundation, N. Glickberg, D. Glickberg, and J. Abrahams, Andrea and Jeffrey Lomasky, Peter Marino, Stephen Meringoff, and Eva Sandler.
