Your Story Here: Embroidering True Stories with Kirsten Ervin

3-Hour Workshop

Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Time: 10am-1pm

Description: Participants will write and share short, "tall tales", true stories with exaggerated elements. These can either be personal stories, or stories told to them. Participants will embroider these stories on vintage handkershiefs that will be sewn into a quilt by the instructor.

Participants will write responses to the following prompt: "You wouldn't believe me If I Told You, but____________________________________________________."

Students will shorten the story to one or two sentences to embroider on a vintage handkerchief. It is ideal if participants have some embroidery experience, but it is not absolutely necessary.

Tuition: FREE

Materials: All materials will be provided

Location: Contemporary Craft (5645 Butler St., Pittsburgh, PA 15201)

Cancellations and Refunds: Workshop cancellations are decided three business days before the start date. If workshops must be cancelled due to insufficient enrollment, the entire class fee will be refunded through Eventbrite, or you may leave your workshop fee in your Contemporary Craft account for future workshops.

Refund Policy: Student refund requests must be made at least three business days before a class begins. There will be a $25 cancellation fee. No refunds will be given without three-business days notice. Processing of refunds takes approximately three weeks.

If you require accessibility accommodations, please let us know by calling 412.261.7003 and we are happy to assist you.

About the Artist

Kirsten Ervin is a Pittsburgh-based artist exploring the intersection of illustration, fiber art and collage. Her fiber practice includes traditional rug hooking, punch needle embroidery, rug tufting and embroidery. She currently teaches artists with disabilities at Studio Forget Me Not! in Carnegie, PA and sells her work at Argyle Studio in Pittsburgh. She and her husband coordinate The Silver Apple Gallery, one of Pittsburgh's smallest art venues.

Host or Publisher Contemporary Craft