Wednesday, Nov 19, 2025
Workshop:Useful and Useless Embroidery Techniques
About
Join Us for an Embroidery Workshop with former fellow Emma Safir.
Artist Emma Safir will share examples of her work and demonstrate embroidery and mending techniques that blend the practical and the artistic. After a brief introduction and orienting, we invite you to stitch, mend, and chat while exploring both “useful and useless” sewing methods. No experience is necessary. Bring something you would like to mend, or use fabric provided to practice. Free and open to all, materials provided
Warm tea and chilled wine will be served. We hope you’ll join us.
Artist
Bio
Emma Safir (b. 1990 NYC) makes paintings that utilize fabric manipulation, lens–based media, smocking, rasterization, upholstery, and digitization. Her paintings function as screen simulations, proxies and portals. Safir is interested in hierarchies of labor in relation to gender and digitization, and in image making apparatus and distribution. Safir holds a BFA from RISD in Printmaking and an MFA from Yale in Painting & Printmaking. She has had solo exhibitions at Blade Study, Baxter St at CCNY, SHIN HAUS at Shin Gallery and Bunker Projects; and has participated in group shows at HESSE FLATOW, Galerie Nicolas Robert, Charles Moffett, Jack Barrett, Lyles & King, among others. She has upcoming solo exhibitions with HESSE FLATOW (2025) and Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art (2026). Safir lives and works in New York City.
