Explore your creativity in this free textile art workshop at FiftyForward Knowles Center, presented in partnership with the Frist Art Museum and supported by E. A. Michelson Philanthropy.
In this hands-on art class, participants will incorporate storytelling with elements of quilting, collage, and a variety of gluing and stitching techniques to create a finished art piece. By the end of the course, students will have a completed textile piece.
The workshop consists of seven ninety-minute art-making sessions, a guided visit to the Frist Art Museum, and a culminating reception and celebration. Participants also receive a complimentary one-year membership to the Frist Art Museum. All materials are provided, and there is no charge for the class. All skill levels are welcome.
To register, contact Nicole Lamborn at 615-743-3401 x3004.
About the Instructor: Alice Aida Ayers
Alice Aida Ayers spent over two decades living and working between the Americas and Africa. She holds a bachelor of art degree and a master’s degree in art education. Her professional career has involved working in Europe, Kenya, Mexico, Tanzania, South Africa, and the United States. She has served as a resident artist in theater, visual art, and art therapy and as an adjunct professor in Kenya, Tanzania, and the United States. A teaching artist since 1989, she has performed residencies in over three hundred schools, colleges, community centers and libraries. For the last seven years, she has worked with incarcerated people and women in recovery and re-entry programs.
In the studio and lecture hall alike, Ayers pushes students to question what is being presented to them, their relationships and responses to that information, and how these impressions relate to their world. Her current work in textile art brings traditional practices from her childhood into the world of modern-day artistic interpretations. She uses global, hand dyed, and repurposed fabrics and is drawn to the art of creating texture by layering found objects and stitching.
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