Painterly Contemporary Crochet Workshop
Adult Workshop | This class has been canceled
If you like Sheila Hicks, Anni Albers, Hundertwasser, Matisse, you’ll enjoy this class in color and stitching. Think of what attracts you in magazines and catalogs, and make vivid crochet needlework with the same appeal. Crochet slouchy string bags, gypsy coin pouches, mandalas, crowns, from basic and versatile crochet stitches, in splashes of color. Learn chain stitch, single and double crochet stitches, and a few fun extras while making a free-form medallion and starting a bag.
Supplies: bring stuff from home - colorful yarns, fabric, felt, buttons, medallions, ornaments, flea market finds you’ve collected for a project like this. Blunt sewing tapestry needle, any size crochet hooks from 0 zero to Q, scissors. Bring garden twine, weaving warp, cotton string and twine, ribbon, sewing scraps of velvet, silk, more yarn.
Lexa McCrady
LEXA MCCRADY AXON has taught painting, drawing, and printmaking since 1987 and shown work in NYC, Paris, Tokyo, and London. She holds a MFA from the City University of New York Hunter College. She is a student of Valerie Jaudon, Robert Morris, and art theorist Rosalind Krauss. She received individual artist grants from New England Foundation for the Arts, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Guild Hall Museum East Hampton NY. Exhibitions include Smith College, Parrish Museum, East Village NY; Biennials of Sao Paolo and Everson Museum. She is Adjunct Faculty at Eastern CT State University in digital art.