Saturday, June 6 - Sunday, June 7, 2025 | 9a - 4p daily
Tuition: $250 [Member Rate: $240] + $40 material fee
Register:
https://mmam.org/calendar2/creative-metamorphosis
About the workshop:
This workshop focuses on experiencing the world right outside our window, promoting awareness and connection to nature through exploration, collage building, and repurposing textiles. By reflecting on the environmental impact of textile production and consumption—particularly its relationship with water—participants will gain a deeper understanding of how their actions affect the world. Our interaction with textiles influences water usage, waste disposal, and pollution, making mindful choices essential to sustainability
About the Instructor:
Maday is a bilingual art educator devoted to sustainability. She is a published artist, author, and speaker based in the Midwest, committed to bringing innovation and artistry to the forefront of her work. Her mission is to nurture artistic platforms across cultures and generations, fostering creative expression while finding ways to minimize our environmental footprint.
Learning from cultural textile traditions and exchanging powerful stories continue to be sources of inspiration that she hopes to share with others. Her goal is to unite students with diverse skill sets and share her love of art and vibrant textiles sustainably. She combines painting, weaving, hand-stitching (her favorite), machine sewing, and embroidery to infuse her creations with energy—paying homage to her Cuban upbringing. She loves the art of collage and storytelling through new and pre-loved textiles, favoring upcycled materials and scraps as a way to honor the environment.
In her spare time, she creates and maintains community gardens and has donated new sewing machines to nonprofits since 2015 in the hopes of sparking creativity and supporting knowledge-based initiatives that foster economic prosperity and cultural traditions.
Maday’s work has been featured on The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims, as well as in international and national publications and periodicals in her home state. She presented virtually to design students at the Indian Institute of Art & Design in New Delhi, India, in 2020 and currently teaches at folk schools, quilt shops, quilt shows, and guilds across the U.S.
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