Fiber Arts Workshop with Marcos Morales

In this hands-on workshop, artist Marcos Morales will guide participants to embellish copies of family photographs with embroidery. Drawing inspiration from family history, ancestral roots, oral history, and memory, participants will document their families’ stories using photographs and a unique style of hand-embroidery that Marcos has developed. Participants are asked to bring family photos, which will be photocopied to incorporate into their artwork. The Filson will provide a photocopier and hand-sewing supplies. The workshop has a limited capacity of 12 people. Pre-registration is required.

Marcos Gabriel Morales Gutiérrez is a Xicanx artist who was raised by people of Michoacán, Mexico, in Okolona, Louisville, Kentucky. Marcos’s work expresses their lived experience as a first-generation child of immigrant parents and their journey and practice of remembering their ancestral roots through story and fashion. Marcos’s art installation RUMB0 A CAZA features a technique called ropamemoria, or “clothingmemory.” The installation will be on display in the Filson’s Nash Gallery.