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Embroidery Workshop
October 3, 2024 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm MDT
Join Artist-in-Residence Laurie Shapiro for a fun and easy embroidery workshop suitable for kids and adults. In this session, we’ll be creating embroidered designs of your choice. While materials are provided, feel free to bring your own, such as a jacket or shirt, and come with an idea of what you’d like to embroider, whether it’s a printout or a personal drawing. We look forward to seeing your creativity!
BIOGRAPHY
Laurie Shapiro (b.1990) creates immersive dreamscapes based on interconnectivity and oneness with nature. Being hard-of-hearing, her experience of the outer world is often muted, while her inner world is amplified. These internal emotional experiences manifest as vibrant and captivating visuals, enveloping viewers in a realm of color and wonder. Paintings are particularly expressive, with subjects often using exaggerated gestures to communicate. “I primarily understand the world through visual stimuli and internal feelings, and this, in turn, colors all of my work,” she adds. Central to her artistic practice are screen-printed floral patterns and imagery—drawings of plants that “speak” to her.
Her art has been commissioned and shown at various institutions, including the Dyer Arts Center, San Diego Museum of Art, and San Luis Obispo Museum of Art. Over the past decade, Shapiro has regularly exhibited solo and group exhibitions with galleries and museums across the country and is the recipient of multiple grants. She has completed artist residencies at the American Academy in Rome, the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, and the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. Shapiro received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and studied abroad at Bilkent University.
Laurie is offering another workshop: Introduction to Screen Printing, on September 28
Also, be sure to attend her installation, Meditated Landscape, as part of the Boise Open Studios Tour October 12th & 13th from 10am-6pm.