Creative Aging: Tapestry Weaving Workshops with Jessica Lagunas

Date and Time
Monday, April 29, 2024, 11:30 AM - 1 PM
End times are approximate. Events may end early or late.

Location

Columbus Library
Fully accessible to wheelchairs
Registration is Closed
Event Details

Explore your artistic potential with Creative Aging, a series of art workshops for adults 50 and older.
 

A participating artist uses a hand loom to do group tapestry weaving with lots of multicolored thread
Courtesy of the Artist. Group Tapestry Weaving, work-in-progress by the Seniors at Tolentine / RAIN Senior Center, The Bronx, 2023.

This program series will be held in person at Columbus Library. Join us for Tapestry Weaving Workshops with Jessica Lagunas.

Teaching artist Jessica Lagunas will guide participants through fiber arts over 8 sessions. The meditative quality of Tapestry Weaving enables participants to learn and experiment with colors, textures, and patterns, to create their own 14" × 18" weave. The sessions focus mostly on experimentation and learning the basics to create a tapestry weave—from tools needed, dressing the loom, basic and advanced weaving stitches, use of different types of threads, finishing the tapestry, and taking it off the loom.
 

 

There will be access to weaving books during the sessions, as well as inspiration from the Digital Collections at NYPL. A list of weaving books from NYPL will be provided as resources for future inspiration.

Materials will be provided. 

This series will consist of eight sessions, 90 minutes each.

Dates: Mondays, March 18 – May 13, 2024 (There will be no class on April 8)
Hours: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Attendance at all sessions is recommended. PLEASE REGISTER FOR THE MAY DATES HERE | Please register for April & May dates respectively. Our website does not allow registration across months.  Apologies for any inconvenience. 

About Jessica Lagunas

Jessica Lagunas is a New York City-based Latinx artist. Her teaching includes a Fiber Arts SU-CASA Programs with Bronx Council on the Arts at Bronxworks Heights Senior Center (2024), Tolentine Zeiser/RAIN Senior Center (2023), and with Bronx River Art Center at Northeast Bronx Senior Center (2022). She has taught workshops in organizations such as The Center for Book Arts (Outreach Program), The Bronx Library Center, Wave Hill, The Laundromat Project at Kelly St., among others.

About Creative Aging

Creative Aging is a series of free art classes for adults 50 and older. This year, in-person programs are available from branches throughout the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island.  Come discover a new art medium or deepen your skills in a practice you’ve explored before! Visit nypl.org/creativeaging for a full list of programs.

  • Class Format: Hands on
  • Skill prerequisites: No prior experience required. This program is perfect for all skill levels.
  • Audience: Adults, 50+
Assistive Listening and ASL
Assistive listening devices available
ASL interpretation and real-time (CART) captioning available upon request. Please submit your request at least two weeks in advance by emailing accessibility@nypl.org.