Second Life: Embroidery and Appliqué
August 19, 20, & 21 | 1-4 PM
FREE
Registration is free and prioritizes access-seeking, disabled, and underserved communities who are looking to build community and grow within the arts. The Textile Museum is committed to making this workshop accessible and barrier-free as possible. If you have already attended a Second Life Workshop, please consider opening space for new community members to access these free workshops.
Join us for an afternoon to refresh your wardrobe or home textiles with embroidery. Using appliqué and couching embroidery techniques, along with vibrant reclaimed yarns and fabrics, you’ll transform textiles and find new ways to embellish or personalize them into upcycled objects with a new life. You’re welcome to bring woven garments, totes, or home decor, or make a sampler.
Participants will receive step-by-step, hands-on guidance and support throughout the session, ensuring a comfortable and confident learning experience.
Registration is free and prioritizes access-seeking, disabled, and underserved communities who are looking to build community and grow within the arts. The Textile Museum is committed to making this workshop accessible and barrier-free as possible. If you have already attended a Second Life Workshop, please consider opening space for new community members to access these free workshops.
About Second Life: Sustainable Textile Workshops
‘Second Life: Sustainable Textile Workshops’ is a series of free; sustainability focused workshops developed with the Textile Museum of Canada and contemporary local artists. The series converges ecological thinking with art-making opportunities for our community. Starting in January, each month, the Museum will bring in an artist who confronts the climate crisis by rethinking materials and reimagining textile processes, decolonial methodologies, and sustainable craft traditions. Together, artist and participants will reform reused materials to create new works of art through a variety of techniques. These textile-focused artistic mediums will include weaving, embroidery, crocheting, quilting, natural dyeing, felting, upcycled fashion, or mixed-media fiber practices.
Facilitator Bio:
Khadija Aziz is a textile glitch artist combining embroidery techniques with digital art methods to transform and distort materials, memories, and images. She has taught embroidery in Toronto for over seven years, including at the Textile Museum of Canada, the Royal Ontario Museum, Harbourfront Centre, and the Art Gallery of Mississauga.
She has received awards and grants from DesignTO, the Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, Craft Ontario, the Ontario Museum Association, and the Surface Design Association, and her art has been exhibited and published in Canada, the US, Australia, Austria, and Prague. Khadija is currently a full-time artist-in-residence at Harbourfront Centre’s Textile Studio.
This program is generously funded by Canada Council for the Arts.
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