Wear What You Make: Block Printing and Stitching in the Sun

This hands-on workshop invites participants to slow down, be in community, and build their abolitionist toolbox through the tactile practices of block printing and hand stitching. Together, we’ll explore how making can be both a method of reflection and a practice of liberation.

We’ll begin by intentionally arriving together—taking time to connect, reflect, and ease into the space with a few short journal prompts that ground our making in intention, care, and curiosity. From there, participants will learn the fundamentals of both block printing and hand stitching—accessible, transferable skills that can be carried into everyday life and practice. In the final portion of the workshop, participants will bring these methods together by creating wearable or shareable patches that carry messages of joy, memory, resistance, or rest.

No prior experience is needed. Just come as you are, ready to connect, create, and imagine new ways of being. Ideally, participants can attend the full 3-hour session.

*Participants will be able to leave with skills in both print making and stitching that they can continue to practice in their homes. Additionally, participants will be given resources to take with them to continue their practice. 

The following supplies will be provided:

• Fabric
• Needles & Thread
• Paper & Pens
• Small notebook

While no supplies are necessary, feel free to bring the following:

• A plain cotton clothing item to work with
• A piece of clothing with a small hole you'd like to repair
• Any fabric or thread you own and want to bring
• Your own journal if you'd prefer

This program is made possible by Teiger Foundation.

About Kelsey Reynolds:

Kelsey Reynolds is an inter*disciplinary educator, writer, and fiber artist committed to liberatory memory work. Born and raised on the westside of Los Angeles, Kelsey spent most of her 20s in New Orleans—a city that deeply shaped her creative and pedagogical practices. Rooted in the poetics of grief, care, and improvisation, her work moves through quilting, research, and counter-archival storytelling that speaks across time. As a high school English teacher, she cultivates classrooms where critical thinking, creative expression, and love guide students through literature and their own stories.

About Avery Collinsbyrd:

Avery Collins-Byrd is an artist working across mediums including: performance, video, writing, sound, ceramics, and printing. My work captures the moments of encounter between people, places, spirits, and times. Specifically thinking about tools and knowledge that Black communities hold through practice and familial memory. As I have grown up in South Central California, and visiting family throughout the year in Texas, I work from the ways I have experienced Black community in those different spaces. I work towards a community-centered practice that prioritizes collaboration with others. Outside of my formal art practice within the university, I have gained experience performing through participating in the underground performance spaces in Los Angeles that have helped shape my current practice.

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