As part of December’s exhibit programming of MOTHER, A Mending Lab Workshop led by Amy Meissner will be Saturday, December 3, 2022, 10 am -12pm at Bunnell Street Arts Center. Bring a garment in need of hand repair and work…
Seven Alaskan artist mothers present “MOTHER” at Bunnell Street Arts Center for the month of December. Exhibit programming will include performances, and a mending workshop. The exhibit opening is 5-7p on Friday, December 2nd and will commence with “Nurture”, a…
Five Alaska artists discuss shared themes and concepts in their group exhibit “Fragile Domestic” at Bunnell in October: Amy Meissner, Hollis Mickey, Keren Lowell and Sonya Kelliher Combs and Keren Lowell.
Using personal symbols, repetition and mark-making in embroidery to explore symbology, meaning, metaphor and mysticism. Tarot reading included. Recommended materials include paper and pen, needle and thread, and a piece of cloth in an embroidery hoop for small scale experimenting.…
https://vimeo.com/465131004 We are driven by questions around the fragility of materials and time-based craft, the fragility of unsustainable perfection, the fragility of memory, history and utility. The resulting instinct sloughs all this to reveal a harder, less breakable core. This,…
Amy Meissner: Hand stitching isn’t fast work. It’s a quiet skill that feels tenuous, nearly lost when placed in a contemporary context. Slipping fast away, like childhood, like domesticity, like safety beneath the weight of something handmade. I sew because…