Embroidered & Embellished Fabric Patches Workshop with Jennifer A. Reis in the SCPL Makery at Chilhowie Public Library
Create a embroidered and embellished patches for your jackets, jeans, and bags! We will create small scale fabric patches out of upcycled fabric, learning binding, applique, and embroidery techniques. These can be sewn directly onto items or a pinback can be applied on the patch’s back for multiple uses. More than one patch can be created per participants’ interest. All supplies included. Age 16 and up; ability to thread a needle is required. Pre-registration is required and space is limited. The cost is $10 per person to attend.
This project was supported, in part, by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, which receives support from the Virginia General Assembly and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
Jennifer A. Reis is a textile artist who creates intensively hand-worked, ornately beaded, and embellished paper doll icons on cloth using traditional and alternative materials. She has a production textile line of Indigo Shibori art to wear and homegoods. Her artistic practice has been honored with numerous awards and prizes, including Kentucky’s Al Smith Fellowship, national adjudicated and invitational exhibitions, and teaching opportunities at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, John C. Campbell Folk School, Craft Alliance Center of Art + Design, Cleveland Institute of Art, Society of Contemporary Craft, and the Southwest School of Art. Her teaching style focuses on collaborative creative making in a low competitive environment and former workshop participants describe her instructional approach as empathic, kind, supportive, and individualistic. A graduate of Columbus College of Art and Design, Syracuse University, and Morehead State University, she has multiple degrees in studio art, arts management, and art education. Currently she is a professor at UNC-Greensboro and resides in Martinsville, Virginia with her husband and an unruly pack of dogs and cats.
