TEXTILES – SUMMER SESSION 7
August 11-16, 2024 (4 STUDIO DAYS)
Francisco Bautista and Laura Bautista
Zapotec Weaving

Students in this workshop will experience the beauty of crossing threads on a floor loom and creating motifs from the Zapotec culture of Mexico. The workshop will begin with some of the history behind our weaving traditions and techniques. Students will weave a traditional motif using various colors of their choosing. There will be daily demonstrations, discussions of historic and contemporary work, and some time for experimentation. We will also share how to make fringes. Although we will not be dyeing in this workshop, we will talk about our natural dyes. All levels. This workshop takes place in a second-floor walk-up studio that has partial access by a stair lift.

Francisco is a fourth-generation master weaver; originally from Teotitlán del Valle in Oaxaca, Mexico, Laura and Francisco now work together in Oregon; exhibitions: Smithsonian Craft Show (DC), Salem Art Fair & Festival (OR), BAM Arts Fair (WA), Sun Valley Arts and Crafts Festival (ID), Art in the High Desert (OR). 

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January 15 – Regular enrollment opens