Tarot: Print + Stitch
Sunday May 12
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Erin MacKeen
Materials Fee: $20 (paid to Instructor)
Students: 6
In this workshop, we will explore classical, archetypal, and mystical symbols from tarot to build your own set of resonant visual elements that we will transfer to small frameless screens for printing your own tarot cards. Materials and instruction will be provided for screen printing, appliqué, embroidery, and beading. Engaging with tarot artistically can be a powerful way to build your relationship with a card and develop an understanding of how it operates in your life and art practice, as a guide. Decks and reference books will be provided by the Instructor and you are welcome to bring your own decks or reference materials as inspiration.
Erin is an artist, designer, and professional tarot reader who’s integrated practice is an exploration of care: how we collectively tend to each other, become better resourced, share tools for self-discovery, and cultivate the safety and support needed to be our authentic selves.
Using digital illustration and natural specimens for image-making, Erin’s work is screen printed on textiles as a foundational pattern for further handwork such as embroidery and beading. These works are both decorative and “useable” objects that explore ideas of death, rest, and nature as a form of care. Erin is currently experimenting and researching natural dyeing, sculpture, and knitting as additional medias and practices in her work.