Needle and Myth: Amy Meissner Workshop

Please join artist, Amy Meissner, for a collaborative textile-based art experience utilizing a special selection of cloth from the Inheritance Project – a year-long crowdsourcing effort that rescued abandoned, unwanted or unfinished domestic textiles from all over the world. Participants will work with vintage cloth, found objects and basic hand stitch to create a community installation, which will pair with her solo exhibition, Inheritance: Makers. Memory. Myth., opening May 2018 at the Anchorage Museum. No prior sewing experience is necessary.

This workshop series is made possible in part by a 2017 Rasmuson Individual Artist Award Project Grant.

$5 Materials Fee. Pre-registration required.


Amy Meissner's textile art combines traditional handwork and contemporary imagery to explore memory, fragility and the literal, physical and emotional work of women. Her materials are vintage, discarded or found, and manipulate unknown histories to shape a narrative or myth for each piece. She has shown internationally, most recently in Karachi, Pakistan, with work in the permanent collection at the Anchorage Museum and commissioned public art installed in three Alaskan libraries. She is a recipient of two Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Awards and a Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, and has a background in clothing design, children’s book illustration and creative writing. She lives in Anchorage, Alaska with her young family.