The Collective Mending Sessions is a series of socially engaged workshops centered on collaboratively mending a quilt.
Cultivating Care for Cloth and Community
MEND Compendium | Interview with Susan Hinkle Norris
““When people’s hands are busy
they talk easier and listen more fully.”
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The Collective Mending Sessions at Graceland University, Lamoni, IA - January - March 2022.
The Collective Mending Sessions is a series of socially engaged workshops centered on collaboratively mending a quilt. Led by artist Catherine Reinhart.
Time lapse of the Cutting of Second Quilt for 2020-2021 Sessions.
““I can see how this project can help bring together disparate groups and people of various backgrounds to learn and get to know each other. Face-to-face interactions help dissolve prejudice.””
Collective Mending Sessions, April 2019, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA
The Project
The Collective Mending sessions aims to cultivate care for cloth and community through a series of artist led workshops teaching hand mending. Project includes a growing list of print resources and interactive library.
Keeping Connected
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Community Supported
This project has a spirit of accessibility. To offer it free to all participants, The Collective Mending Sessions relies on various grants and community support.
Consider supporting this project with a tax-deductible donation.
Our Practice
Cultivating care for cloth and community through the meditative process of slow stitching.
The project, in concept and execution, is a beautiful, multilayered metaphor for the work that needs to happen to mend the political, social, and economic divisions in our nation.
— Sharon Stewart, community partner, owner Lockwood Cafe
Get Involved
Want to attend a workshop? Host a mending session?Contribute financially to The Collective Mending Sessions? Contact us. Get involved.
Schedule
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