Join the Wende for a vibrant workshop with Shagane Barsegian, AKA folk.lounge, to explore the rich tradition of floral cross stitch in Soviet and Russian culture, focusing particularly on roses and flowers as symbols of transformation and potential.
Through hands-on cross stitch techniques, participants will create their own floral embroidery pieces while discussing how these natural symbols transcend cultural boundaries yet carry specific cultural meanings about transformation and becoming.
The Wende is an art museum, cultural center, and archive that preserves history and brings it to life through exhibitions, scholarship, education, and community engagement. In the community textiles series, we take needle and fabric not just as tools, but as instruments of memory, resilience, and reinvention. Inspired by the Wende collection—a tapestry of lives lived under constraint and in defiance of it—we gather to explore the quiet, radical act of making by hand. Every stitch is a story, every thread a link between past and present.
When:
Mondays June 23, July 14 and 28
6-8:30pm
Fee:
FREE!
RSVPs for this free program do not guarantee admission. Limited seating is available on a first come, first served basis.