Instructor: Liz Collins
Immerse yourself in the art of needlework amidst the enchanting summer days of Assisi. Led by acclaimed artist Liz Collins, known for her innovative textile artworks and installations, this unique workshop invites you to explore the meditative joy of stitching. While the focus is on needlepoint, all forms of stitching are welcome and supported, making it perfect for every skill level.
We will take time to explore the myriad of stitches possible within needlepoint, making samplers, so as to have a more expansive vocabulary for bigger works. Liz will share her distinctive methodology for creating improvisational designs, treating needlepoint as a slow drawing process in response to the grid. Discover how to develop your own artistic ideas and expand your creative vocabulary.
Advanced artists who would like to work independently have access to one on one instruction. A supply list is available.
Liz Collins is an artist based in New York City known for pushing the boundaries of art and design in innovative and experimental work in fabric, yarn, and other materials and techniques associated with textile media. Whether in the form of textile, painting, drawing or installation, Collins frequently explores the dichotomy of structure and entropy—qualities inherent to textile that speak to the fissures present in broader architectural, political, and social structures.
Collins’ work has recently been on view in the 60th Venice Biennale, Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, and in Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, curated by Lynne Cooke and presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON; and Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Liz Collins: Motherlode, Collins’ mid-career retrospective at the RISD Museum in Providence, RI, runs through January 11, 2026 with an accompanying monograph published by Hirmer.
