Woven Together
A Healing with Weaving Community Art Project/Installation
In 2016, I began to envision my "Healing with Weaving" initiative, to highlight the importance of how art, specifically weaving, can be a therapeutic tool for healing. While my work has been placed in hospitals and places of worship, providing solace and reflection for visitors, I have wanted to find ways to teach people in these spaces how to weave themselves, giving them direct experience of the healing powers of the process.
Living two years into a global pandemic has brought on tremendous loss and grief, personally and collectively. I believe it is essential to take time for self-care along with coming together with others, building support, and community. Woven Together; Workshop and Community Art Project, I will be holding weaving workshops that will teach people how to weave on a small portable loom and make connections with each other, finding the healing, therapeutic and meditative benefits through the wonders of weaving together. This community hands-on workshop will allow you to take time for yourself and connect with others as you slow down in life, taking time for self-care, all while doing something creative with your hands focusing on material, color, pattern, one thread at a time. Weaving can help with anxiety, stress, grief, and loss, which helps you become a healthier and more grateful human being to yourself and others. Taking this time in life to come together, sharing life stories that allow for human connections to see that we are not alone, which gives us a renewed strength, knowing that we are woven together in this life.
These guided Woven Together Workshops hosted by various local hospitals, counseling facilities, schools, universities, and art organizations, will include a Healing with Weaving Frame Loom Kit and accessories, with instructions to take home and be available to view online. You will learn how to weave with your loom and be invited to participate in a Woven Together Community Art Project using your first weaving project as a collaborative large weaving installation that will be exhibited at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in Kansas City during Debbie Barrett-Jones and her sister, Kristine Barrett’s joint Thesis Exhibition, Lineage, March-May 2023. Your small weaving will be connected to one another to create a larger-scale weaving installation. Collectively we have all gone through tremendous loss and grief, but coming together physically and through connecting our woven stories together inspires hope, healing, and restoration.
As a part of Woven Together; a large community weaving installation, you will be invited to Lineage’s Private Opening Reception on Thursday, March 2, 2023, at 5-8 pm. You will be recognized that night along with your name (as permitted) and will be recognized online and in print next to the piece. You as a collaborator of Woven Together; a large community weaving installation will also be invited to a Weaving Together Gathering, an afternoon of coming together and weaving together, strangers and friends that are connected by woven thread, Saturday, March 18th, 2023, 1-4 pm. For more information, to sign up for a workshop, please go to www.wovenrepeat.com
KU Weaving Students participating in the Woven Together, community weaving project.
Woven Together Participants
Jillian Buckley | Debbie Barrett-Jones | Grace Kruer Doyle
Kari Flynn | Sadie Goll | Joz Garsow | Jane Holmes
Tiana Nanayo Kuuleialoha Honda | Allie Horner
Lilly Habel | Cora Jones | Lily Mehlman | Jordan Nations
Maurice Olin | Barbara Starrett | Cameron Stewart
Ivy Tompkins | Dejah Wake | Bo S Weisenberger
Woven Together Workshops
If you are interested in participating in a Woven Together Workshop and/or would like more learn more about this project and workshops, please contact us.
Get on the waitlist to purchase a Woven Together, Healing with Weaving Framelooms kit.
We are accepting donations to help fund Woven Together to help pay for materials.
