Create a heart-shaped pillow using crazy quilt techniques!
Participants will learn about the history of crazy quilts. Each person gets a piece of muslin shaped like a heart and leaves with a heart pillow.
No sewing experience necessary! This is a no-sew pillow workshop.
Supplies included!
Date: Saturday February 3 2024
Time: 12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Location: Fountain House Studio Silks Building 37-24 24th Street Suite 012 Long Island City NY 11101
Our NEW studio space is located at the Silks Building 37-24 24th Street Suite 012 Long Island City NY 11101. Buzz 24350* to enter! Located off the 7/N/W at Queensboro Plaza.
About Fountain House Gallery and Studio
Fountain House Gallery and Studio supports the careers and creative visions of contemporary artists living with mental illness. Founded by Fountain House in 2000 as a not-for-profit exhibition space for its member-artists living and working with mental illness the Gallery sells original artworks and collaborates with a wide network of artists curators and cultural institutions. Embracing artists who are emerging or established trained or self-taught Fountain House Gallery cultivates artistic growth makes a vital contribution to the New York arts community and challenges the stigma surrounding mental illness.
Show Us Your Hearts
This event is part of public programming for our current exhibition Show Us Your Hearts curated by Harvey Fierstein and Alyson Vega.
Show Us Your Hearts asks artists to consider the vast visual history of the heart symbol and all its connotations.
Harvey Fierstein is an award-winning writer actor gay rights activist and artist. Alyson Vega is a Fountain House Gallery artist whose work has been shown in a solo exhibition at White Columns and at the Outsider Art Fair and is included in numberous private collections.
Participating artists: Christine Albane Lawrence Applebaum Madeleine Hope Arthurs Elizabeth Atlas Judith Berman Yanan Cai Jenny Chan Lauren Covey AG Davis Mario Fontenla Lita Goldberg Terrenceo Hammonds Garvin Henry Issa Ibrahim Roger Jones Kerry Kennedy Tzu Moy Nicolaus J. Myers Tanya Nickolan Mathew Reith Aracelis Rivera Elizabeth Roberts Angela Rogers Tara Sue Salusso Barry Senft Susan Spangenberg TWST Alyson Vega Vermillion and Boo Lynn Walsh.
Event Venue
Fountain House Studio, 37-24 24th Street, Suite 012, New York, United States