About the Workshop

What do you want to say and show to the world? What do you hope for the future? This generative interdisciplinary workshop explores flags, pennants and hand-made banners as celebratory canvases to wave, pin to your wall, or parade down the street. In making these works, participants will explore techniques with block prints or screenprints, hand-stitching, embroidery, and composition to create pieces that are layered in both form and content, with a wide range of potential outcomes that can take shape with personal, political, poetic, or symbolic meaning. During the workshop, we will also learn how to use a Risograph printer, making a collective zine that celebrates all of the individual projects that come out of the class. Arrive with a project in mind or brainstorm an idea once you’re in Provincetown. This class will offer a space to uncover new possibilities in textiles and print and is welcome to participants with art experience and absolute beginners alike.

Most materials will be provided but students should bring special pieces of scrap fabric they would like to incorporate. Students can bring embroidery needle, loop and thread, and their own sewing scissors if they have them but not necessary. 

About the Instructor

Miriam Klein Stahl is a Bay Area diasporist artist, educator, activist and the New York Times-bestselling illustrator of Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide. In addition to her work in printmaking, drawing, sculpture, paper-cut and public art, she is also the co-founder of the Arts and Humanities Academy at Berkeley High School where she’s taught since 1995. As an artist, she follows in a tradition of making socially relevant work, creating portraits of political activists, misfits, radicals and radical movements. As an educator, she has dedicated her teaching practice to address equity through the lens of the arts. Her work has been widely exhibited and reproduced internationally.