Learn how to make a knotted rug weaving with yarn and upcycled textiles! This workshop is inspired by the long history of rug making in many cultures, specifically in the SWANA and Arab regions. Focusing on hand knotting techniques, participants will play with different fibers, color and texture to create a small rug and learn the basics of weaving. All levels of experience are welcome. Primary techniques include: modified larks head knotting, plain weaving, winding yarn balls, and finishing a weaving.

This program is part of the Wende Bauhaus series, in which local artists lead hands-on classes inspired by the Bauhaus school’s learning-by-doing philosophy and its spirit of experimentation, play, and discovery.

About the teaching artist: Aneesa Shami Zizzo is a Los Angeles-based artist exploring shared memory through appliqued tapestries, soft sculpture and paper collage. Using textile industry waste and secondhand materials, she intertwines personal history, Islamic folklore and the sublime to illustrate the cyclical nature of history and shed light on societal systems contributing to waste and neglect. Born to an American mother and a Palestinian-Lebanese father, Zizzo often reflects on her Arab-American upbringing in post-9/11 suburban Kansas. By drawing from her childhood and personal experiences, she is able to explore broader narratives of human experience and cultural memory in her practice.

As the museum will be closed during this program, please enter through the garden side gate, which will open 30 minutes before the start time. Doors open 15 minutes before the start time. Seating is first come, first served. An RSVP does not guarantee admission once capacity is reached. No late entry.