Saturday, September 27, 2025, 10 am – 12 pm
with Shannon Twohy
Youth class, ages 7 – 12 years old
Let’s mend! Transform your scuffed, ripped, or stained clothing into wearable works of art with visible mending! In this 2-hour class, youth participants (ages 7 – 12 years old) will create a mini mending sampler and a set of custom iron-on patches. We’ll send each participant home with tools and instructions for future mends, too!
This short class is the perfect length for some weekend “me-time” — we welcome parents and caregivers to stay and check out Textile Center’s current exhibits, library, retail shop, and The Stashery. If you’d like to dash out for a cup of coffee at Dogwood or out to run some errands, please fill out our Youth Waiver. If you’d like to participate and join the class, please register yourself separately.
All supplies for this class are provided. Each child will receive a 6” embroidery hoop, hand embroidery needle, 2 skeins of embroidery floss, an iron-on-adhesive, and some fabric to create a mending sampler and several iron-on-patches to take home with them. They’ll also have access to scissors, heat-set fabric markers, and fabric scraps.
We welcome participants to bring clothing to mend, but it is not required.
Instructor Bio:
Shannon Twohy works as a director, playwright, artistic instructor, and actor in the Twin Cities where she covers new ground in adaptations of existing theater work while creating and cultivating contemporary, ensemble-based collaborative work. Her stage work includes special focus on disability and redefining who partakes in the artistic process.
Shannon found a passion for embroidery arts after spending hours at hospital waiting rooms while her father underwent treatment for cancer. Shannon sees this tangible medium as an extension to explore the grieving process, pop culture, her past and future all through the lens of what is widely seen as a “woman’s craft.” Shannon is self-taught in the artistry of embroidery and often leans on influences of woodblock prints, pop culture, religious artifacts, and human anatomy as she attempts to “paint” or “carve” with thread. Shannon co-founded the fiber arts collective, The Snips. Shannon’s first solo exhibition, Saints of the Abattoir (2021), was met with critical acclaim where her work was described as, “Heironymus Bosch but with a feminist twist.” Beyond embroidery, Shannon also practices with ceramics, painting, and mixed media. Shannon received a B.A in Theatre Arts and Film from Marquette University in Milwaukee, WI.
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