This workshop will engage methodologies for open-ended improvisational weaving. Fostering a cooperative understanding that our tools and materials have agency, improvisational loom-thinking opens pathways of possibility that respond to the tectonic grid of the loom. Participants will be encouraged to follow their curiosities and ask questions that lead to unexpected places. Possibilities for this open inquiry may include yarn dye processes, warp painting, multi-cloth, drafting, and tapestry, among others. Rather than presenting a singular way of working, participants will develop intimacy with the loom, and in so doing, find their own means of weaving beyond the binary. Some floor loom weaving experience is recommended. All levels welcome.

Transdisciplinary weaver John Paul Morabito (they/them) is an artist and educator who engages the expanded field of tapestry as a medium to embody an ecstatic queer visuality.

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