Instructor: Dee Clements
Format: 4-week online seminar
Date(s): February 4, 11, 18, 25
Day/Time: Tuesdays, 6-7:30pm CST
(Formerly Titled Women + Weaving)
This lecture and discussion style seminar class will chart the histories, theories, and practice of weaving as “women’s work” both in design and fiber art forms like textiles and basketry from the early Neolithic Period to the present. Tracking evolutions in style, technology, function, and historic developments of textiles, basketry, and off-loom weaving types, through an online slide presentation via Zoom.
A study of weaving typologies such as woven cloth and tapestry, baskets, embroidery, and quilts, in addition to more specific materials and cultures, including Appalachian basket weavers, the Berber weavers of Morocco, the Bauhaus weavers, weaving workshops of Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, as well as textile art objects, and off-loom weaving in contemporary art and craft practices. Examining some of the indicators in textiles and weaving as status and wealth, design affinities, and impacts of cultural exchange.
This class will begin February, 4, 2026 6 pm - 7:30 pm CST ONLINE via Zoom and will meet every Tuesday, 6 pm – 7:30 pm CST from February 4-25.
*Classes will be recorded, and students will have access to each recording for 10 days after the class. A Zoom link will be emailed to participants one week before class begins.
Cancellation and Refund Policy:
Please carefully consider your investment and participation in this class. If you cancel 30 or more days before the workshop's start, a full refund minus a $25 processing fee is available. If you cancel fewer than 30 days before the workshop's start, your entire course fee will be forfeited.
*source images, Darning Sampler from 19th C. Netherlands or Denmark via The Cooper Hewitt Museum, Arizona Swayney a Cherokee student at Hampton Institute making a basket, ca 1890s. Image courtesy of Western Carolina University, Bauhaus Weaving Workshop at the Dessau Bauhaus, 1927, Bauhaus Archive Berlin, Berlin, Germany. 2,000-year-old preserved basket weaving fragment from the Biderbost archeology site, source The Burke Museum.
Instructor: Dee Clements
Format: 4-week online seminar
Date(s): February 4, 11, 18, 25
Day/Time: Tuesdays, 6-7:30pm CST
(Formerly Titled Women + Weaving)
This lecture and discussion style seminar class will chart the histories, theories, and practice of weaving as “women’s work” both in design and fiber art forms like textiles and basketry from the early Neolithic Period to the present. Tracking evolutions in style, technology, function, and historic developments of textiles, basketry, and off-loom weaving types, through an online slide presentation via Zoom.
A study of weaving typologies such as woven cloth and tapestry, baskets, embroidery, and quilts, in addition to more specific materials and cultures, including Appalachian basket weavers, the Berber weavers of Morocco, the Bauhaus weavers, weaving workshops of Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt, as well as textile art objects, and off-loom weaving in contemporary art and craft practices. Examining some of the indicators in textiles and weaving as status and wealth, design affinities, and impacts of cultural exchange.
This class will begin February, 4, 2026 6 pm - 7:30 pm CST ONLINE via Zoom and will meet every Tuesday, 6 pm – 7:30 pm CST from February 4-25.
*Classes will be recorded, and students will have access to each recording for 10 days after the class. A Zoom link will be emailed to participants one week before class begins.
Cancellation and Refund Policy:
Please carefully consider your investment and participation in this class. If you cancel 30 or more days before the workshop's start, a full refund minus a $25 processing fee is available. If you cancel fewer than 30 days before the workshop's start, your entire course fee will be forfeited.
*source images, Darning Sampler from 19th C. Netherlands or Denmark via The Cooper Hewitt Museum, Arizona Swayney a Cherokee student at Hampton Institute making a basket, ca 1890s. Image courtesy of Western Carolina University, Bauhaus Weaving Workshop at the Dessau Bauhaus, 1927, Bauhaus Archive Berlin, Berlin, Germany. 2,000-year-old preserved basket weaving fragment from the Biderbost archeology site, source The Burke Museum.
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