Presented in TEXTILE TAKEOVER, a weekend-long showcase of innovation in Nordic textile art at Scandinavia House, join us for an adult art workshop with Danish artist Isabel Berglund! In this three-hour workshop, participants will join Berglund in creating a performance-piece, “People’s Paper Puff Jumper,” a work knitted by hand in paper yarn. The participants in the workshop will hand knit puff sleeves in light gray paper yarn with a colored edge that emphasizes the puff sleeve. The puff sleeve will be added to a larger hand-knitted piece, which will eventually become a large textile installation in the form of a communal paper sweater. The viewer will be able to enter the work and stick their arms through the pouffe arms and thereby become part of the work. The craft of “knitting” is set aside for a process where the work is created by the handprints of many different people.
All materials will be provided. TEXTILE TAKEOVER is presented in partnership with New York Textile Month.
ABOUT ISABEL BERGLUND
Isabel Berglund lives and works in Copenhagen. She has an MA in Fashion Knitwear from Central Saint Martins College of Fashion and Textile, London (1997-2000), and a BA in textile from The Royal Academy of Arts’ School of Design (1994-1997). In 2018, she received the three-year work grant from The Danish Arts Foundation. Her work has been exhibited at museums, art institutions, and galleries in Europe, Asia, the U.S., and in her home country Denmark. Isabel Berglund is represented by Galleri Specta, Copenhagen.