Felted Bowls from Wooden Forms
Mallory Zondag has been such a great collaborator with us at the studio! As we have learned more about the process and creative applications for felted materials through Mallory’s own personal work and previous workshops at the Studio, we started to explore combining our familiar wooden bowl forms with colorful wet felted wool. The results were stunning…a surprisingly sturdy bowl with unexpected softness.
If you are curious to learn more, join us for this four-hour workshop with Mallory Zondag where you will learn and explore the ancient and awesome art of wet felting to create your own unique felted bowl. During the workshop you will learn how to work with wool roving, water and soap to create felt from scratch and how to sculpt it using wooden bowl forms, hand turned on a lathe in the Studio. We will also have hand-dyed wool from our local Charlton sheep farms that can be woven into your design. Your felted bowl can be a unique and special gift, or brighten your own home.
This three-dimensional wet felting process that you will learn during the workshop can also be applied to making vases, baskets, slippers and more! We can’t wait to continue expanding our material knowledge of this process and seeing what everyone creates!
When: Sunday, December 15 10:00am – 2:30pm, includes a lunch break
Where: Main Street Studio 786 Charlton Rd, Charlton, NY 12019
Workshop Costs: Registration: $115- for non-members, $103- for members (use member code at checkout!) Materials: $12 material fee paid to instructor at time of workshop Total Registration & Materials: $127- / $115-
Ages 14+ (parent & young adult welcome to create one bowl together) Limited Class Size!
About Mallory Zondag
Mallory Zondag is a Mixed Media Fiber artist and artist educator. She graduated from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Fashion Design and her work has been exhibited in both solo and group shows in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the Ukraine. She has been an artist in residence at The Allentown Art Museum, The Wassaic Project and many schools and community organizations. During many of these residencies she has led community art programs where felted wool living walls are collaboratively created with students of all ages and abilities. She was commissioned to create the sensory space for Artsquest's Accessible Arts program and was recently commissioned to recreate a component of one of Amalia Mesa-Bains's installations for her retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Mallory currently travels around the Northeast teaching workshops, leading community art programs and installing shows. We are so fortunate to have her in our community!