Introduction to Weaving: Beginner Basics with Luca Budofsky

Introduction to Weaving: Beginner Basics with Jamie Boyle

3-hour workshop

Date: Saturday, December 5

Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm

Description: Curious about different kinds of looms? Want to try weaving but you are not sure where to start? Let this workshop be a beginning for you!

Luca will share some weaving basics and will guide you through weaving on a frame loom, which you will get to take home with you! Additionally, you will get to experience how some different types of looms function, including a rigid heddle loom and a multi-harness loom, guided by the general question: what does a loom do?

In this class you will primarily work with your hands on a non-mechanical frame loom, but you will get an overview of various modes of weaving and get to try other looms in the studio!

Tuition: $65 + $15 materials fee

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Materials: all materials are included.

Registration: Register through Eventbrite! If you are viewing this listing via the Contemporary Craft website on your phone, please click this link to visit the Eventbrite registration page.

Scholarships: We really want you to join us in the studio! Full and partial tuition scholarships are available—with some limitations—to alleviate some of the financial burden of attending a class.

Scholarship application is found at this link. You can expect to hear from someone on the CC staff within 2 weeks.

If you have any questions, email Jamie Boyle, Fibers Program Manager, at jboyle@contemporarycraft.org, or leave a voice message for them at 412-465-1628.

Location: Contemporary Craft, TImmons Studios (5688 Butler St., Pittsburgh, PA 15201). Note, this workshop will take place in the Fleischner Family Fibers Loft, which is on the second floor of the building.

There are 2 entrances to the Timmons Studios.

• One entrance is facing Butler Street. To access the Fibers Loft from the Butler Street facing entrance, there are a total of 32 stairs to ascend.

• One entrance is facing 57th Street. This entrance is accessible by ramp, with no stairs to ascend. There is a lift inside the building to access the Fibers Loft on the second floor.

If there are accessibility accommodations we can provide, or if there is anything you would like us to know before you arrive, please feel free to call Jamie Boyle at 412-465-1628 or email jboyle@contemporarycraft.org.

About the Artist Luca Budofsky is a multimedia artist from northern New Jersey. They hold a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University School of Art with a minor in Soft Technologies. They take particular interest in how textiles occupy shifting scales of material production and the way the woven structure breaks a surface into modular interlocking pieces. They love chance encounters with light casted on walls and sidewalks. They like noise. They think public radio is cool. They attribute their interest in cyclical events and repetitive processes to being a triplet. Luca has been recognized as an Andrew Carnegie Society Scholar and as a recipient of the Samuel Rosenberg Art Award. They work and weave in Pittsburgh, PA.