Enthusiastic youth learn how to weave on laser-cut tapestry looms at ECHO Collective's fourth birthday celebration at Turbine Flats. Free walk-in weaving workshops are scheduled for Saturdays, Aug. 24 and 31, from 12:30-2:30 p.
m. at WallSpace-LNK, 1624 S. 17th St.
in Lincoln. Members of ECHO Collective’s textile weaving program will join artist and Professor Emerita Wendy Weiss to assist participants in creating their own weavings to take home. The events are an outgrowth of Weiss’s exhibit, "Disrupting the Dust,” a collection of weavings and sculptures that opened Aug.
2 and are available for viewing Fridays-Sundays, from noon-5 p.m., at WallSpace-LNK.
Throughout the exhibit’s run, gallery visitors are invited to create their own weavings on portable laser-cut looms that Weiss made at Nebraska Innovation Studio. This impromptu "walk-in weaving” instruction is available Fridays-Sundays from noon-5 p.m.
through Aug. 31. The ECHO Collective weavers will be on hand from 12:30-2:30 p.
m. Saturdays, Aug. 24 and 31.
ECHO Collective connects and empowers refugee and immigrant women by providing opportunities for personal growth and building cross-cultural relationships in a nurturing environment. In 2022, ECHO Collective launched a textile weaving class in partnership with Weiss, Cheryl Rennick and Kathy Blum of the Hand Weavers Guild of Lincoln. More recently, ECHO Collective participants have assisted Weiss with workshops at some Aging Partners Senior Centers with funding.