# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Stitching Pictures—Embroidery, Photography, and Practices of Adornment and Care
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 08 Feb, 2025 at 01:00 pm – Sat, 08 Feb, 2025 at 04:00 pm
- **Event Description**: In this hands-on workshop inspired by the work of Joana Choumali, you’ll learn how to enhance, alter, and transform photographs through needlework.

This workshop is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces (January 25–May 11, 2025).

The session will begin with an exhibition tour by co-curators Ilisa Barbash, curator at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and Harvard Art Museums curator Mitra Abbaspour, followed by a hands-on workshop led by Kathleen Quaintance, who is a craft scholar, teacher, and Ph.D. student in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University. Participants will learn how to use embroidery stitches to transform photographs. Visitors are encouraged to bring their own photographs or email them to am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu. In the workshop, we will print each image onto thick paper and use it as source material.

The hands-on session will take place in the Materials Lab on the Lower Level.

$15 workshop fee. Registration is required and space is limited; registration will open on this form, beginning on Wednesday, January 29, at 10am. Workshop fee must be paid to confirm registration. Minimum age of 14; no previous experience required.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cambridge/stitching-pictures—embroidery-photography-and-practices-of-adornment-and-care/200027794301736
- **Event Categories**: workshops, exhibitions, art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 12

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Cambridge
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138
- **lat**: 42.37418
- **long**: -71.11444
- **full address**: Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Stitching Pictures—Embroidery, Photography, and Practices of Adornment and Care being held?
  - **A:** Stitching Pictures—Embroidery, Photography, and Practices of Adornment and Care takes place on Sat, 08 Feb, 2025 at 01:00 pm to Sat, 08 Feb, 2025 at 04:00 pm at Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Stitching Pictures—Embroidery, Photography, and Practices of Adornment and Care?
  - **A:** Stitching Pictures—Embroidery, Photography, and Practices of Adornment and Care is organized by Harvard Art Museums.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Stitching Pictures—Embroidery, Photography, and Practices of Adornment and Care is ideal for learners, working professionals, and skill-builders looking to gain hands-on knowledge and practical expertise in a focused, interactive setting. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Cambridge, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Stitching Pictures—Embroidery, Photography, and Practices of Adornment and Care sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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