In the Expanded Quilt workshop, we will be stretching and bending our ideas of quilting through the use of materials and process, using the “crazy” quilt as a starting point  This workshop is focused on skill building as well as play and experimentation.  It is open to all levels and all ideas are welcome for experimentation and a togetherness in brainstorming and problem solving in order to make our ideas a reality. Supplies will be available, but you may want to bring fabrics and in progress projects that are meaningful to you.

This workshop is led by Beckett Brueggemann (he/him) a weaver, quilter, and installation artist currently working in Boston. He graduated with his BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and is currently pursuing his Masters of Art Teaching at Tufts University. In his practice, Beckett explores safety and healing in structure, pattern, and soft escapism. His work encourages gentle touch, fluid time, and steps into otherworldly spaces. He engages with the histories of craft in conjunction with the developing aesthetics of glitch art as he studies the language and observations of astrophysics. In this, he finds inspiration in the descriptions of the universe: the fabric of reality, the warping of time, and the holes in our space/time continuum.