Visible Mending and the Sacred Potential of Brokenness

Join Art/Lab Fellowship Cohort artist, Zac Banik, for a lesson in visible mending techniques including darning, patching and felting, accompanied by study and discussion of the spiritual potential of brokenness: how to wear our scars with purpose and what it means to repair the world. Visible mending is a philosophy of repair that makes beauty from rips and tears, rebuilding a garment with creative and new qualities rather than attempting to hide its imperfections. While we repair our own clothes, we can take the opportunity to imagine how a similar technique can be applied to our own lives, communities and the world at large. Please bring a damaged garment that needs repair.

Learn more about Zac Banik: zacbanik.com

This workshop will take place at the Nikto Folk School in SE PDX

(an address will be provided prior to the workshop)