Make it Wild: Heart and Hands – The Art of Rug Hooking with Alissa Ehrenkranz
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In this fun, live class, we will use a variety of textiles (wool, cotton, silk, and poly-blend) hooked onto a burlap backing from a pattern of your own design. We can explore flowers, landscapes, animals, and domestic scenes as subjects and stitch them into our patterns with a range of textures and tones. In this workshop, local artist Alissa Ehrenkranz will cover the elements of design, an introduction to color theory, textile characteristics, and how to plan a design to hook. You will leave with your project started and a plan for finishing it.
This class will take place from 6 – 8 p.m. on October 28, in the Museum Classroom.
Make it Wild courses are open to adults and young adults with beginner to intermediate abilities. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions during this interactive program.
- $50 per Live In-Person Class
- Limited to the first 20 participants
Your registration fee supports the Museum’s Art Leadership Scholarship in Honor of the Memory of Dick Jennings. Dick Jennings was a Museum board member whose memory inspires us to pursue our passions. The $4,000 scholarship is awarded annually to a local High School Senior who plans to study art at the college level. Thank you for your support!
About the artist:
Alissa Ehrenkranz blends her naturalistic wildlife drawing practice with elements of abstract and modernist painting methods to bring the color, texture, and movement of wildlife into focus. She employs textiles to convey a tactile sense of the atmosphere and mood of the setting, using simplified forms to capture the energy of her subjects. Starting with a Nature Journaling practice, Alissa records the details of the mountainscapes around her, including science notations of weather and geological conditions, capturing the local Steppe Prairie native plants and animals, including Sagebrush, Chokecherry, Elk, Deer, Red-Tailed Hawks, and Trout, among others. Alissa begins with a series of drawings and watercolors to reduce her subjects into form, color, and movement. She then outlines the results onto linen or burlap and proceeds to ink, watercolor, and stitch (hook, embroider, crochet, collage, felt, etc.) the final composition. Her materials are derived from local wool producers, recycled silks and cottons, and botanically dyed unspun wool roving. Alissa lives and works in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
