Needle Felted Moths and Butterflies Workshop
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Learn how to needle felt a beautiful moth or butterfly with local fiber artist Mallory Zondag!
In this four-hour needle felting workshop you will learn how to paint and sculpt with wool. Topics include:
- How to work with wool felt to create the shape of your moth or butterfly
- How to sculpt wool three-dimensionally to form the body, legs, and antennae
- How to blend colors and create a painted effect using wool roving and a felting needle to bring your winged pollinator to life
Tickets available online at Eventbrite.com!
About the instructor:
Mallory Zondag is an award-winning New York–based artist and educator whose internationally exhibited work explores the relationship between the natural world, the human body, and lived experience. Using tactile, meditative processes like wet felting, weaving, sculpting, and stitching, she creates dimensional textile pieces that reflect themes of growth, decay, and humanity’s place within nature’s tensions.
Her work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Phoenix Art Museum, and Berkeley Art Museum, among others, and she has held residencies at Acadia National Park, The Wassaic Project, and The Allentown Art Museum. Zondag leads community-based art education projects and has received multiple grants and awards. She earned her BFA in Fashion Design from Pratt Institute.