A hands-on textile collage workshop with Ukrainian feminist artist Oksana Briukhovetska
Bring your cast off florals and brightly coloured rags and create a textile collage under the guidance of renowned Ukraine artist Oksana Briukhovetska. She has recently given workshops in Ukraine to women grieving loved ones lost in war. Whether you are preoccupied by the war in Ukraine, responding to other conflicts, injustices, and environmental crises globally, or simply wanting to be crafty, Oksana will guide you in assembling images and colours on fabric to tell stories of courage, protest, and hope. Oksana will give a short presentation with examples of textiles as resistance: Chilean arpilleras, Ukrainian embroidery, African-American quilts. We’ll also drink tea and talk about our experiences and dreams of protest and resistance.
Participants may work on a solo piece or choose to collaborate on a collective (group) project.
Sliding scale – $45 suggested
Oksana Briukhovetska’s current artistic practice focuses on textile collage. She also works as a curator and writes about Ukrainian contemporary art, addressing topics of memory, trauma, woman’s labor, feminism, solidarity and decolonization. In 2020-2021 she interviewed Americans about Black Lives Matter protests and in 2025 published the book Black Lives Matter: Voices in Ukraine. She was the Ukraine co-curator for Secondary Archive, the platform for women artists from Central and Eastern Europe (2021-2024), and a curator at the Martin Roth Initiative (MRI) residency for Ukrainian women artists (2024-2025) that resulted in the publication and the exhibition both titled Meaning after Loss (2025). She lives in Kyiv.