Sylvia Hernández
Friday, May 16, 2025, 1 – 4 pm
Pricing
Early-bird (special rate through March 15, 2025): $185
Nonmembers (rate after March 15, 2025): $220
Members (rate after March 15, 2025): $198
Payment plans and scholarships available. For questions, reach out to Cristin McKnight Sethi: cmcknightsethi@textilecentermn.org.
Explore portraiture through the art of quilting with special Guest Teaching Artist Sylvia Hernández. Use collage quilting techniques alongside a range of fabric and embellishments to create a portrait that represents your personality and identity. Whether abstract or realistic, experience how making a collage portrait can be a fun, imaginative, and expressive way to work with color, texture, and pattern to create a depiction that is as unique as you are. All levels welcome.
$10 materials fee, payable to the instructor at the start of the workshop, includes all supplies needed to create one quilted portrait.
Instructor Bio:
Sylvia Hernández (she/her) was born on the Lower East Side of New York City (NYC) and raised in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Sylvia’s love affair with art dates back to high school, when she discovered a talent for drawing and painting while attending the High School of Art & Design in NYC. Today as a celebrated and self-taught master quilter, she is able to pinpoint how illustration brought her to her current fascination with fabric and sewing machines. Sylvia creates timeless, handcrafted works that address community and human rights issues. She has exhibited locally, nationally, and internationally as a part of a number of high profile art exhibitions including the Brooklyn Quilts Show, Made in New York Quilt Show, the Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza, Journey of Hope in America: Quilts
Inspired by President Barack Obama, We Are the Story: A Visual Response to Racism in Minneapolis, Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories in the Fine Arts Museum of Boston, and recently in the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles and the James Museum of Western & Wildlife Art in Florida. Her work has appeared in multiple publications including the New York Times. She is the former president of the Quilters of Color of NYC and the former co-president of the Brooklyn Quilters Guild. She is also a member of Women of Color Quilters’ Network and is currently a teaching artist at El Puente Academy of Peace and Justice HS. She is the recipient of a 2-year Grant from Creative Rebuild NYC. She has quilts in the private collection of Spike Lee, Dr Carolyn Mazloomi, the Fine Arts Museum- Boston, the James Museum of Western and Wildlife Florida, the Clinton Presidential Center, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She works out of her home studio in Brooklyn NYC, where she currently resides with her husband Miguel.
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Withdrawal Policy
If your notice of withdrawal is received by the early bird deadline for this workshop, you will receive a 50% refund of your workshop fee. Due to the scheduling nature of these classes and arrangements for instructors, no refunds are available after that. We will be happy to provide you with a receipt for your donation to Textile Center for any forfeited tuition. Please make this request in writing to cmcknightsethi@textilecentermn.org.
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