Sip & Stitch: Green Drinks Ossining Sashiko Workshop
Green Drinks: “Sip & Stitch” with BAC Artist-in-Residence Dawn Bisio
DATE & TIME: Thursday, October 24, 2024 7-9PM
FREE Community Program as part of BAC’s Fall Multidisciplinary Residency.
Register Here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfgseexk8mOaeCctnLCJUZBpAAFbbxGuZXl_dl0CTxB4nKxWw/viewform
Learn Sashiko! Sashiko is a traditional Japanese embroidery technique used for repairing clothes and creating a unique style. In this hands-on workshop, visual artist, Dawn Bisio, demonstrates how to patch a hole and two basic stitches: the running stitch and the cross stitch. All materials are included and you will complete the workshop with your very own patch to take home that you can use to decorate or repair a piece of clothing of your own! In partnership with Green Ossining and Sing Sing Kill Brewery.
*If you’d like to bring a piece of scrap fabric from home, a loose weave cotton or linen is recommended.
REGISTRATION: Registration is encouraged but not required. Registration will help us to ensure we have enough materials for those who attend. Thank you!
ABOUT DAWN
Dawn Bisio is a Korean American painter and installation artist based in the Mohawk Valley of NY. She is best known for her colorful, multi-layered acrylic abstract paintings and her contemplative mixed media installations. Her work also delves into printmaking, gestural paintings, encaustics, and illuminated pieces in a range of scales and media. Aside from acrylic paint, she preferences the use of fabric, natural materials, and found objects. While her paintings and other 2D works often begin loosely and spontaneously and develop in an improvisational fashion, her installations are carefully thought-out pieces involving significant planning, engineering, and exploration of a specific theme, such as identity, the environment, and women.
Dawn Bisio is a Korean American painter and installation artist based in the Mohawk Valley of NY. She is best known for her colorful, multi-layered acrylic abstract paintings and her contemplative mixed media installations. Her work also delves into printmaking, gestural paintings, encaustics, and illuminated pieces in a range of scales and media. Aside from acrylic paint, she preferences the use of fabric, natural materials, and found objects. While her paintings and other 2D works often begin loosely and spontaneously and develop in an improvisational fashion, her installations are carefully thought-out pieces involving significant planning, engineering, and exploration of a specific theme, such as identity, the environment, and women.
During her residency at BAC, Dawn will be working on an installation, called Threads of Tomorrow: Fashioning Sustainability. Clothing over-production and fast fashion cause enormous pollution from carbon emissions, polluted water, and overflowing landfills. As a self-proclaimed recovering clothes horse, this installation is Dawn’s way of helping to protect our precious natural resources. Using all recycled fabrics/clothing as a canvas for this installation, Dawn will have eight “paintings”- two rows of four paintings facing each other, with a large sculpture of a coat with tails in forward motion in the middle, as if it were an invisible figure running down the hall. Though the piece is about recycling textiles and protecting the environment, it’s also about freedom; freedom for a brighter future and freedom of the mind to change and adapt.
This event is a Fall Multidisciplinary Residency Community Program. As part of a residency at BAC, we ask each artist to build and facilitate a Community Program. Community Programs are a unique opportunity for both artists-in-residence and our local community to gather, engage, and be in conversation with one another through art. Community Programs are free engagements open to the public and/or in collaboration with a local community partner
