Please join us at Scandinavia House for an adult art workshop with Danish artist Isabel Berglund. In this three-hour workshop, participants will join Berglund in creating a performance-piece, "People's Paper Puff Jumper", a work knitted by hand in paper yarn. The participants in the workshop will hand knit puff sleeves in light gray paper yarn with a colored edge that emphasizes the puff sleeve. The puff sleeve will be added to a larger hand-knitted piece, which will eventually become a large textile installation in the form of a communal paper sweater. The viewer will be able to enter the work and stick their arms through the pouffe arms and thereby become part of the work. The craft of “knitting” is set aside for a process where the work is created by the handprints of many different people. ALL MATERIALS WILL BE PROVIDED SKILL SET: BEGINNER KNITTER This workshop is presented as part of TEXTILE TAKEOVER: a weekend-long showcase of innovation in Nordic textile art as part of New York Textile Month.
Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America is the leading center for Nordic culture in the United States. It offers a wide range of programs that illuminate the culture and vitality of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Scandinavia House offerings include diverse exhibitions and film series, as well as concerts and other performances, readings, lectures, symposia, language courses, and children’s activities.