Green Drinks October: Special Event “Sip & Stitch”. Learn the Art of Sashiko! Thursday, October 24 @7p

Learn the art of Sashiko at this special “Sip & Stitch” event.

This fun hands-on workshop will teach you the traditional Japanese embroidery technique used for repairing clothes and creating a unique style. Visual artist, Dawn Bisio, demonstrates how to patch a hole and two basic stitches to add a new life to textiles.

This event is free but in order to ensure we have enough materials, please register with your email address and first name at https://bit.ly/SashikoDawn. You are also welcome to bring your own special remnant patches: a loose weave cotton or linen is recommended.

Dawn Bisio is a Korean American painter and installation artist based in the Mohawk Valley of NY. She is best known for her colorful, multi-layered acrylic abstract paintings and her contemplative mixed media installations.

During her residency at BAC, Dawn will be working on an installation, called Threads of Tomorrow: Fashioning Sustainability. Clothing over-production and fast fashion cause enormous pollution from carbon emissions, polluted water, and overflowing landfills. As a self-proclaimed recovering clothes horse, this installation is Dawn’s way of helping to protect our precious natural resources. Using all recycled fabrics/clothing as a canvas for this installation, Dawn will have eight “paintings”- two rows of four paintings facing each other, with a large sculpture of a coat with tails in forward motion in the middle, as if it were an invisible figure running down the hall. Though the piece is about recycling textiles and protecting the environment, it’s also about freedom; freedom for a brighter future and freedom of the mind to change and adapt.

IG: @dawnbisioart

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