Fiber Workshop with Lauren Leone & Sarah Broas

Crafting Care: Stitching personal and collective definitions of care through fiber and discussion. This participatory workshop invites attendees to explore the questions “What does care look like for me in moments of crisis and distress—and what does it not look like?” through embroidery and fabric collage, in dialogue with the Crafting the Mind exhibition. We’ll start with a brief discussion, situating terms like "care", "health", "treatment", "healing" in the context of psychiatric abolition and contemporary mental health advocacy. Next participants will learn some simple embroidery stitches and will be supported in creating individual quilt squares reflecting their personal understanding of care. We’ll have time to share our quilt squares with each other and together, these pieces will form a temporary, ephemeral community quilt, assembled and shared at the close of the workshop before each participant departs with their work. No prior art experience required; all materials provided. 

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