Freezer Paper Folk Appliqué Workshop with Jennifer A. Reis in the SCPL Makery at Chilhowie Public Library
Learn to use freezer paper to make appliqué designs in this hand-stitching workshop! Participants will use provided images or make their own, transfer drawings to freezer paper, iron the paper unto fabric, and utilize the process to make an appliqued and quilted small textile artwork. 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. Call 276-646-3404 to register.
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.
