Getting Koozie: Dimensional Crochet
with kg
Tuesday–Friday, July 30–August 2, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Tuition: $235
Four-day workshops do not include lunch. A four-day lunch plan is available for an additional $75. Please select this option when registering if you wish to join us for lunch each day at 1:00 p.m.
For Getting Koozie, participants are asked to bring an object for which they wish to create a custom-fit slipcover. Using very basic crochet stitches, we will work to create a dimensional form to fit snugly around the item. This can be a permanent skin affixed around the object, or a usable, removable cover. Along the way, you will learn a working set of crochet skills that can be applied to future projects! No previous crochet knowledge needed. Basic materials and tools for in-class use will be provided.
kg (b.1980, Poland) makes weavings and writes poetry from their home studio by the lake in Chicago. kg values the small the domestic and the everyday, situating those politics in their studio and curatorial practices. They have exhibited work with Horse and Pony (Berlin), The Brooklyn Academy Of Music,The Bruce High Quality Foundation and The Gowanas Ballroom (New York), Left Field Gallery and Adjunct Positions (Los Angeles), Katherine E. Nash Gallery (Minneapolis), Monique Meloche Gallery, Gallery 400, Julius Caesar and LVL3 (Chicago), The John Michael Kohler Art Center (Wisconsin) and their most recent solo exhibition, Here Comes That Feeling at Hawthorne Contemporary in Milwaukee. Some Kind Of Duty, Their expansive weaving survey hosted by The DePaul Art Museum is available as a monograph through the museum shop and online. In 2017 kg attended The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and The Vermont Studio Center as a fellow in 2018. Current exhibitions include Intranarratives hosted by the Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal. Upcoming shows include Stitch, Woven, Hooked at The Lubeznik art Center and Beyond: Tapestry Expanded at The Peeler Art Center at DePauw University.
kg, Only A Broken Heart (for mama), 2022
Materials / poetic material list:
here come
a couple of
blue things
roped into
the place where you
keep your
secrets
on a splinter
held out for
ever
Size: 10” x 14”