Introduction to Wet Felting Workshop (Beginner)
Sunday, May 31 | 1 PM - 4 PM
$40 | General
$30 | Textile Museum Members
This workshop lead by Camilla Leonelli Calzado, introduces participants to wet felting as a tactile, accessible textile practice rooted in material exploration and storytelling. It covers the absolute basics of the practice to build an understanding of how the practice can be used in tandem with other mediums/materials. The session centers on creating small-scale wet felted rectangular panels (approximately 12 x 9 inches), encouraging participants to engage with texture, sculptural layering, and intuitive design. The workshop is open to visual artists, youth, children and anyone curious about wool/textile design, with an emphasis on accessibility, experimentation, and collective making.
Previous experience is not required. All materials are provided.
For any questions or accessibility accommodations, please contact Isabelle Sain (isain@textilemuseum.ca).
This programming is produced in collaboration with Re:Stance as part of the sustainable fashion symposium Temporality: A Love Letter to Gaia.
Facilitator Bio
Camilla Leonelli Calzado is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher whose practice explores diasporic memory, transculturation, and the material languages of home. Born in Santiago de Cuba and raised in Canada, her work navigates the space between cultural inheritance and geographic distance, using textiles, found objects, sound, and performance to create immersive, sensory environments. Her practice is grounded in research-creation and auto-ethnographic methodologies, drawing on personal archives, oral histories, and embodied knowledge. Through processes such as wet felting, collaging, knitting, weaving, beading, and sculptural material transformation, she creates textile works that function as “floating islands” of memory; sites where fragmented histories are reassembled and made tangible. These works often extend beyond the studio into installation and participatory environments, inviting audiences to engage with memory as something lived, shared, and continually in motion.
Central to her practice is a commitment to accessibility, community engagement, and the expansion of craft within contemporary art discourse. By activating textiles as both material and method, Leonelli Calzado reimagines the Afro-diasporic archive as something relational and embodied, creating spaces where diasporic identities can be felt, remembered, and collectively redefined.
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