Lily Hope, Guest Teaching Artist
4 days • October 15 – 18 , 2024
10 am – 4 pm, daily
Pricing:
Nonmembers: $800, Members: $720
Payment plans and scholarships available. For questions, reach out to Cristin McKnight Sethi: cmcknightsethi@textilecentermn.org.
Join us in welcoming renowned Chilkat weaver Lily Hope to Textile Center for a special four-day Guest Teaching Artist workshop. Learn to weave a Ravenstail smartphone bag with rainbow warp and All Our Ancestors pattern. Participants will learn foundational techniques in Yeil Koowu (Ravenstail) finger twining, and come away with a completed weaving. Open to participants of all skill levels; no previous weaving experience necessary.
$100 materials fee, payable to the instructor at the start of class.
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Info for out-of-town guests:
For our out of town guests, nearby accommodations are available with our partner hotel, Hampton Inn and Suites, University Ave. in Minneapolis. For the special Textile Center rate and more info, visit our website here: textilecentermn.org/visit
Instructor Bio:
Lily Hope (b. 1980) was born and raised in Juneau, Alaska to full-time artists. She is Tlingit Indian, of the Raven moiety. Following her matrilineal line, she’s of her grandmother’s clan, the T’akdeintaan.
She learned Ravenstail weaving from her late mother Clarissa Rizal, and Kay Parker, both of Juneau. She also apprenticed for over a decade in Chilkat weaving with Rizal who, until her untimely passing in December 2016, was one of the last living apprentices of the late Master Chilkat Weaver, Jennie Thlanaut. Lily feels the pressure to leave honorable weavers in her place.
Lily’s contemporary works in textile and paper collage weave together Ravenstail and Chilkat design. She is one of few designers of dancing blankets. She teaches both finger-twined styles extensively in person (and virtually since COVID-19), in the Yukon Territory, down the coast of SE Alaska, into Washington and Oregon. She demonstrates internationally and offers lectures on the spiritual commitments of being a weaver.
Committed to co-creating as her mother was, she’s constantly looking for ways to collaborate with other artists, often spearheading multi-community projects, or managing huge campaigns, like the #AKMaskUp poster collaboration, bringing the importance of mask-wearing into the forefront Lily lives in Douglas, Alaska, with her five children.
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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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