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 from the Nebraska Arts Council.
Would-be weavers are welcome to bring their own thread and linear material to use in their personal take-home weaving, but materials will be available on-site, free of charge throughout the exhibit. Yarn donations of wool and cotton threads will be accepted at the gallery during open hours in August. What is not used will be contributed to ECHO’s weaving program.
See more details at https://echocollectivene.org/textile-weaving-project . “Disrupting the Dust” and the workshops are free of charge with support from the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Cultural Endowment.
Regular gallery hours are Friday-Sunday, from noon- 5 p.m. through Aug.
31 or by appointment at 402-810-4890. For more information, visit WallSpace-LNK.com or on Facebook or Instagram.
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