Sculptural Felt: Form, Structure, and Possibility

Sculptural Felt: Form, Structure, and Possibility
A two-day intensive with Mallory Zondag

Step into a deeper, more intentional relationship with your creative practice through an immersive weekend of sculptural feltmaking with accomplished fiber artist Mallory Zondag.

This workshop is designed for artists and dedicated makers who are ready to move beyond surface-level exploration and engage felt as a structural, expressive medium. Whether you already incorporate felting into your work or are drawn to its potential for dimensional form, this is an opportunity to expand both your technical fluency and your artistic vocabulary.

Over two focused days, you’ll explore how felt can be shaped into dynamic, three-dimensional objects—forms with tension, texture, connection, and presence.

Day One: Technique as Foundation
Mallory will guide you through a series of hands-on exercises drawn directly from her sculptural practice. You’ll build a library of samples while learning core techniques, including:

• Felting over flat resists and three-dimensional forms

• Integrating wire for structure and movement

• Seamlessly connecting separate forms through wet felting to create layers and sculptures with movement and multiple directions

• Joining forms through stitching and needle felting, with methods for concealing seams

These exercises are designed not just to teach technique, but to open up new ways of thinking about form and construction.

Day Two: Independent Exploration
The second day shifts into a supported studio environment. With access to a wide range of materials and Mallory’s guidance, you’ll develop your own sculptural piece, applying and adapting the techniques explored on day one. This is a space to take risks, follow ideas, and push your work in new directions.

By the end of the weekend, you’ll leave with a deeper understanding of felt as a sculptural medium, a set of technical tools you can return to, and the confidence to pursue more ambitious, dimensional work in your own practice.

Dates: Saturday, June 13 and Sunday, June 14

Time: 9:30am – 5:30pm

Two-day workshop costs:

• Registration: $460 (Main Street Studio Members receive 10% discount!)
• Material Fee: $40 (Paid to instructor at time of workshop)

Total cost: $500 non-members, $454 members

Location: Main Street Studio, 786 Charlton Road, Charlton NY 12019

Additional Class Information:

• This will be a small class size (maximum 8) to allow for personal exploration. Some felting experience is ideal, but not required.
• Materials provided will include a variety of wool fibers, silk, silk fibers, felting kits, felting scrubbers, soap, sewing materials, wire, 3D pattern materials, needle felting materials. Participants are also welcome to bring their own fibers, felting tools or even projects that are in progress.
• Please plan to bring a lunch on both days. The studio will have a small selection of snacks, tea and coffee available. 

Refund policy: Due to small class size, refunds can only be given with 7 days notice prior to the first class date. 

Scholarships Available: Main Street Studio has a limited amount of scholarship funds available made possible by our supporting members. If you need assistance and would like to apply for a scholarship to help offset tuition for this class, please complete this short application. 

If you have questions, please email info@mainstreetcharlton.com or call Dana @ 518-256-6530.

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. She has been a creative inspiration for many of us here at Main Street Studio and we are looking forward to hosting this special opportunity to create and explore with each other.

You can find more of Mallory's work and follow along with her at www.malloryzondag.com and on instagram @malloryzondag