Visible Mending with artist Ashley Catherine Smith

Visible mending is an art of repair and sentimentality. Whether you’re interested in offsetting the negative effects of fast fashion, preserving meaningful objects, or simply enjoy the meditative act of sewing and embroidering, this workshop will provide a space for you to do so.

This free three-hour workshop is a place to commune, connect and share with others as you learn mending techniques for reviving old clothes, linens, and fabrics. Participants should bring things that need mending. Fabric, thread, and basic sewing tools will be provided. Visitors are welcome and encouraged to bring their own tools and any fabric or thread for their own projects— or to share!

This workshop is presented as part of , an art exhibit on view at the 20*20 House Gallery from February 22 to April 13, 2025. Featured artists and collect, mend, and reinterpret objects—some inherited from family, others discarded by strangers—to explore how heirlooms become mythic, shaping our understanding of the past, each other, and ourselves.

By turns playful and poignant, their charged objects evoke cherished memories and honor past lives while grappling with intergenerational trauma and the ever-shifting nature of the stories we pass along generation after generation.

This event is organized by the LEDC's Art Committee, a volunteer group of The Lansdowne Economic Development Corporation. The mission of the LEDC's Arts Committee is to create, foster, and promote Lansdowne's identity as a vibrant and inspiring artistic community. The LEDC's Art Committee is dedicated to nurturing creative expression, enhancing community engagement, stimulating economic growth, preserving and celebrating Lansdowne's diversity, and cultivating arts education and access.

Host or Publisher Lansdowne Economic Development Corporation