This workshop explores the ancient art of felting, with a focus on Iranian nomadic techniques and their global counterparts. Participants will delve into the historical, cultural, and emotional significance of the wet-felting process.
By the end of the workshop, participants will have created their own 3D felted vessels, using their chosen color compositions and personal design preferences.
Open to ages 16 and up- beginners to advanced.
Partial scholarships available by request to
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Biography:
Alieh Rezaei is an Iranian-born, San Francisco Bay Area–based interdisciplinary artist, working across fiber, drawing, and performance, focusing on the theme of the body and self-authorship. Her work navigates how the material and performative languages of traditional fiber, particularly Iranian felting, can be recontextualized within contemporary frameworks to reflect on cultural and corporeal fluidity. Through fiber art, she challenges systems of power imposed on her body and identity, reclaiming voice, agency, and space by transforming domestic materials into sites of narrative and resistance. Her MFA in Intermedia+Digital Art from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) deepened her engagement with time-based media and experimental storytelling, building upon her prior studies in animation and digital arts in Iran. Alieh’s work has been exhibited at Maryland Art Place, Rochester Art Center (NY), ItsLiquid Group (London), Contemporary Art Modern Project (Miami), ICA Baltimore.
Join us for Alieh's final event August 29th from 7pm-8:30pm.
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