Event Type : Public Program

Join us for an introduction to Romanian embroidery through some of the beautiful examples in our collection.  This child-friendly event will help you begin to identify some simple Romanian patterns and show you how to make your own patterns using graph paper and colored pencils. We will review basic stitches, such as the running stitch, back stitch, cross stitch, bullion stitch, and satin stitch. (If you’d like to try them, have a hoop, material, and needle and thread already loaded.)

Free; advance registration required.

Presented in collaboration with the American Romanian Cultural Society

Due to popular demand, we have added a second program to take place at 3:30 p.m.

Join us for an introduction to Romanian embroidery through some of the beautiful examples in our collection.  This child-friendly event will help you begin to identify some simple Romanian patterns and show you how to make your own patterns using graph paper and colored pencils. We will review basic stitches, such as the running stitch, back stitch, cross stitch, bullion stitch, and satin stitch. (If you’d like to try them, have a hoop, material, and needle and thread already loaded.)

Free; advance registration required.

Presented in collaboration with the American Romanian Cultural Society

REGISTER NOW NOTE: Depending on local COVID-19 restrictions, this workshop may be canceled; anyone registered will receive a full refund if the workshop is canceled.

Our sense of self and identity is often revealed through intentional and unintentional choices, such as the clothes and hairstyles we wear, and the activities we take part in. Join us as we explore, through the arts, how cultural identity can help us better understand ourselves and others. Through reading, discussion, making art and the analysis of art, we will develop a deeper understanding of cultural identity and diversity, and how to teach our students about the multicultural landscape that surrounds us all.

The Institute is led by Maryhill Museum of Art‘s executive director, Colleen Schafroth, with guest presenters throughout the week. Extracurricular activities can include visits to artist’s studios and regional institutions.

Workshop meets 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.

Cost: $215 museum members / $230 non-members.

Continuing Education Clock hours may be available.

Scholarship(s) are available through the Janet P. Swartz and Harriet G. Langfeldt Summer Art Institute Scholarship Fund. To learn more or apply, please contact education@maryhillmuseum.org.

REGISTER NOW NOTE: Depending on local COVID-19 restrictions, this workshop may be canceled; anyone registered will receive a full refund if the workshop is canceled.

Our sense of self and identity is often revealed through intentional and unintentional choices, such as the clothes and hairstyles we wear, and the activities we take part in. Join us as we explore, through the arts, how cultural identity can help us better understand ourselves and others. Through reading, discussion, making art and the analysis of art, we will develop a deeper understanding of cultural identity and diversity, and how to teach our students about the multicultural landscape that surrounds us all.

The Institute is led by Maryhill Museum of Art‘s executive director, Colleen Schafroth, with guest presenters throughout the week. Extracurricular activities can include visits to artist’s studios and regional institutions.

Workshop meets 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.

Cost: $215 museum members / $230 non-members.

Continuing Education Clock hours may be available.

Scholarship(s) are available through the Janet P. Swartz and Harriet G. Langfeldt Summer Art Institute Scholarship Fund. To learn more or apply, please contact education@maryhillmuseum.org.

REGISTER NOW NOTE: Depending on local COVID-19 restrictions, this workshop may be canceled; anyone registered will receive a full refund if the workshop is canceled.

Our sense of self and identity is often revealed through intentional and unintentional choices, such as the clothes and hairstyles we wear, and the activities we take part in. Join us as we explore, through the arts, how cultural identity can help us better understand ourselves and others. Through reading, discussion, making art and the analysis of art, we will develop a deeper understanding of cultural identity and diversity, and how to teach our students about the multicultural landscape that surrounds us all.

The Institute is led by Maryhill Museum of Art‘s executive director, Colleen Schafroth, with guest presenters throughout the week. Extracurricular activities can include visits to artist’s studios and regional institutions.

Workshop meets 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.

Cost: $215 museum members / $230 non-members.

Continuing Education Clock hours may be available.

Scholarship(s) are available through the Janet P. Swartz and Harriet G. Langfeldt Summer Art Institute Scholarship Fund. To learn more or apply, please contact education@maryhillmuseum.org.

REGISTER NOW NOTE: Depending on local COVID-19 restrictions, this workshop may be canceled; anyone registered will receive a full refund if the workshop is canceled.

Our sense of self and identity is often revealed through intentional and unintentional choices, such as the clothes and hairstyles we wear, and the activities we take part in. Join us as we explore, through the arts, how cultural identity can help us better understand ourselves and others. Through reading, discussion, making art and the analysis of art, we will develop a deeper understanding of cultural identity and diversity, and how to teach our students about the multicultural landscape that surrounds us all.

The Institute is led by Maryhill Museum of Art‘s executive director, Colleen Schafroth, with guest presenters throughout the week. Extracurricular activities can include visits to artist’s studios and regional institutions.

Workshop meets 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.

Cost: $215 museum members / $230 non-members.

Continuing Education Clock hours may be available.

Scholarship(s) are available through the Janet P. Swartz and Harriet G. Langfeldt Summer Art Institute Scholarship Fund. To learn more or apply, please contact education@maryhillmuseum.org.

REGISTER NOW NOTE: Depending on local COVID-19 restrictions, this workshop may be canceled; anyone registered will receive a full refund if the workshop is canceled.

Our sense of self and identity is often revealed through intentional and unintentional choices, such as the clothes and hairstyles we wear, and the activities we take part in. Join us as we explore, through the arts, how cultural identity can help us better understand ourselves and others. Through reading, discussion, making art and the analysis of art, we will develop a deeper understanding of cultural identity and diversity, and how to teach our students about the multicultural landscape that surrounds us all.

The Institute is led by Maryhill Museum of Art‘s executive director, Colleen Schafroth, with guest presenters throughout the week. Extracurricular activities can include visits to artist’s studios and regional institutions.

Workshop meets 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.

Cost: $215 museum members / $230 non-members.

Continuing Education Clock hours may be available.

Scholarship(s) are available through the Janet P. Swartz and Harriet G. Langfeldt Summer Art Institute Scholarship Fund. To learn more or apply, please contact education@maryhillmuseum.org.

Explore the interplay between clothing and identity as seen through Maryhill Museum of Art’s varied collections. Speakers are Simona Laiu (Romanian folk clothing), Sandra Ericson (haute couture), Steve Grafe (historic Native American attire). Free with admission.

Presenters:

Simona Laiu holds an MLA from Stanford University. For the last 20 years, she has been owner of Gradina Hestiei, through which she researches, collects, restores, and promotes 19th and early-20th-century Romanian folk textiles.

Sandra Ericson is an educator who taught fashion design, pattern making, draping, and other courses at City College of San Francisco for more than 30 years. She is founder of Antiquity Press, a small publishing company for out-of-print fashion books, and co-owner of the Center for Pattern Design.

Steve Grafe is Curator of Art at Maryhill Museum of Art. He is a longtime student of Indigenous American art and author of the essay about historic Columbia River Plateau dress in Vol. III (United States and Canada) of the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (2010).