Stitching Endangered California Plants

Date Saturday, February 24, 2024 Time 10 AM-12:30 PM Where New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) | 106 E Main St., Los Gatos Cost $65 NUMU Members | $80 General Membership starts at $35, become a member now! Pre-registration is required. Registration info coming soon. Skill level Great for beginners or anyone wishing to brush up on their embroidery skills Join exhibiting artist Liz Harvey, NUMU Curator and embroidery educator Allison Railo, and the California Native Plant Society for an embroidery class and conversation on the incredible power and precariousness of rare native California plants. Allison will guide students through getting set up, threading a needle, and three basic embroidery stitches. Students will have the option to choose from one of three plant designs featured in the exhibition. As students stitch their designs, we will facilitate a conversation exploring our relationship to plants in California within a broader context of climate change and our changing environment, mirroring the conversations around the lost ones performance project. Take home your embroidered image of an endangered native California plant that the artist discovered through the CalScape website created by the California Native Plant Society. SUPPLIES The class kit includes embroidery floss, needles, pre-traced fabric, and stitch diagrams. Scissors and hoops will be provided for the duration of the class. ABOUT THE EDUCATOR Allison Railo has been a part of the San Francisco School of Needlework and Design since 2019 when she first embarked on the Comprehensive Studies Program in Surface Embroidery Levels 1 & 2. She is currently working on her CSP Goldwork Level 1 and her CSP Needlepointing Level 1, with the goal of developing her own art practice and design skills. Prior to discovering SFSNAD Allison was self-taught in needlework, inspired by family traditions and a love for slow craft and handmade textiles. Allison is also an Art Historian and Curator who lives in the Bay Area with her husband, two sons, and two dogs. ABOUT THE LOST ONES the lost ones: iterations and murmurs is an exhibition centered on the artworks, artifacts, and ephemera behind creating the lost ones, a multi-year performance project by Bay Area artist Liz Harvey. For the lost ones performance project, Harvey worked with a range of collaborators, including choreographers Mary Armentrout, Cherie Hill, and Megan Nicely, as well as science editor Lauren Muscatine. The project featured myriad performers rotating through an embroidered performance garment on which participants were invited to stitch images of endangered plants in order to highlight overlooked species, untold feminist histories, and little-acknowledged art practices.

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