Friction: Wet Felting Basics With Yasmine K. Kasem and ArtReach

Program Type:

Art

Age Group:

Teens, Emerging Adults, Adults, Older Adults
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About the Workshop:

Wet felting is a process of creating an artwork through intentionally tangling and matting wool together involving friction, fat and heat. This transformative process takes layers of soft fragile fibers and renders them into imagery, patterns or objects that are strong and durable, but also soft and flexible. In this workshop, learn the process of wet felting by creating textile pieces that use imagery inspired by transformative and enduring aspects of identity.

 

About the Artist: 

Yasmine K. Kasem is an interdisciplinary artist who focuses on the precariousness within the layers of identity and what it is to be Egyptian - American, Muslim and Queer. Kasem has exhibited regionally and internationally and her work is part of both private and public collections, such as the San Diego Civic Art Collection. Notable exhibitions include Visions and Nightmares at Simone Subal Gallery, NY, NY, "middle" at Bread And Salt CA, and “In the Adjacent Possible” at the John Michael Kohler Art Center, WI. SPRING/ BREAK NAKED LUNCH, LA Art Fair 2023 curated by Rokhsane Hoviada, and Sense of Self: the Islamic Contemporary at the University of Michigan.

 

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