Aaron McIntosh
2 days • June 20 – 21, 2025
10 am – 4 pm, daily
Can we look to piecework, a universal craft language, as a cognitive framework for understanding the complex ways that identities are created and shared? What are the scraps of connection that make us who we are? This workshop investigates piecework and quiltmaking as means of expression and conceptual platform for 2SLGBTQIA+ expression. Starting with a scrap exchange of meaningful cloth, we will work with collective material as we learn the basic structure of a traditional quilt, including patchwork, appliqué, layering and quilt stitching techniques. This workshop is open to all levels of experience, beginners are encouraged to join!
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Pricing
Pay What You Can:
- Suggested amount is $425: this ticket price covers Textile Center’s costs to run this workshop including instructor’s pay and travel expenses and Textile Center’s administrative and facilities expenses associated with this workshop.
- 25% Discounted Tuition $318.75: this ticket price covers 75% of Textile Center’s costs to run this workshop and is reserved for participants who are unable to pay the full ticket price.
- 50% Discounted Tuition $212.50: this ticket price covers 50% of Textile Center’s costs to run this workshop and is reserved for participants who are unable to pay the full ticket price.
- 75% Discounted Tuition $106.25: this ticket price covers 25% of Textile Center’s costs to run this workshop and is reserved for participants who are unable to pay the full ticket price.
- FREE: this ticket price is reserved for participants who are interested in joining the workshop, but are unable to pay any of the ticket price options.
- Patron Tuition $850: this ticket price covers 100% of Textile Center’s costs to run this workshop plus allows another participant to join for free.
NOTE: THERE IS NO MEMBER DISCOUNT ATTACHED TO ANY OF THE TICKETED PRICE OPTIONS.
Payment plans and scholarships available. For questions, reach out to Cristin McKnight Sethi: cmcknightsethi@textilecentermn.org.
Instructor Bio:
Aaron McIntosh (he/him) is a cross-disciplinary artist and fourth-generation quiltmaker whose work mines the intersections of material culture, family tradition, sexual desire and identity politics. His exhibition record includes numerous solo and group exhibitions, most recently Entanglements at Northeastern University, and Radical Tradition: Quilts and Social Change at the Toledo Museum of Art. Since 2015, McIntosh has managed Invasive Queer Kudzu, a community storytelling and archive project across the LGBTQ+ Southern United States. He is a 2020 United States Artist Fellow in Craft, and other honors include a 2017 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship, and two Windgate Fellowships in 2006 and 2015 from the Center for Craft. His current research-creation project, Hot House/Maison Chaude, has been supported by a 2020-2023 SSHRC Insight Development grant. He has held residencies at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Banff Centre, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. His critical writing has been published in the Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, the Surface Design Journal, and the Journal of Modern Craft. He currently lives and works in Montreal, where he is an Associate Professor and Coordinator in the Fibres & Material Practices program at Concordia University. aaronmcintosh.com
Info for out-of-town guests:
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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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