Materials Lab Workshop: Stitching Pictures—Embroidery, Photography, and Practices of Adornment and Care

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Harvard Art Museums

A photographic print on fabric features a Black woman wearing a colorful head covering, a white T-shirt that reads “I’m doinc this for me,” and a red and green embroidered skirt. Une impression photographique sur du tissu blanc montre une femme noire pourtant un couvre-chef bleu et orange, un T-shirt blanc sur lequel est inscrit « I’m doing this for me » et une jupe brodée de fils rouges et vert fluo.

In this hands-on workshop inspired by the work of Joana Choumali, learn how to enhance, alter, and transform photographs through needlework.

Registration required

  • Specific dates
Wednesday, January 29 – Saturday, February 8

Registration is required and space is limited; registration will open on this form, beginning on Wednesday, January 29, at 10am. Workshop fee must be paid to confirm registration.

Cost

$15 workshop fee.

Location

  • In-person only.

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States

Neighborhood

Neighborhood 9

The hands-on session will take place in the Materials Lab on the Lower Level.

Dates and Times

Saturday, February 8 1PM – 4PM

Additional information

The session will begin with an exhibition tour by co-curators Ilisa Barbash, curator at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and Harvard Art Museums curator Mitra Abbaspour, followed by a hands-on workshop led by Kathleen Quaintance, who is a craft scholar, teacher, and Ph.D. student in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University. Participants will learn how to use embroidery stitches to transform photographs. 

A photographic print on fabric features a Black woman wearing a colorful head covering, a white T-shirt that reads “I’m doinc this for me,” and a red and green embroidered skirt. Une impression photographique sur du tissu blanc montre une femme noire pourtant un couvre-chef bleu et orange, un T-shirt blanc sur lequel est inscrit « I’m doing this for me » et une jupe brodée de fils rouges et vert fluo.

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Last updated January 16, 2025.