Nets are both a practical and metaphorical structures for holding, sharing, and communicating. As Ursula K LeGuin wrote in her short essay, Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, nets and bags constitute the "life story." In this making workshop, we'll explore historical and contemporary net-making techniques and tools, and collaboratively learn how to create simple net structures using thread. No experience required, all ages welcome.
“If it is a human thing to put something you want, because it’s useful, edible or beautiful, into a bag, or a basket…and then take it home with you, home being another, larger kind of pouch or bag, a container for people, and then later take it out and eat it or share it or store it up for winter in a solider container, or put it in the medicine bundle or the shrine or the museum, the holy place, the area that contains what is sacred, and then the next day you probably do much the same again—if to do that is human, if that’s what it takes, then I am a human being after all. Fully, freely, gladly, for the first time.” - Ursula K. LeGuin
About Facilitator
Isa Rodrigues is a textile artist and educator. Through her creative practice, she explores how textiles can serve as archives of how we experience the natural world. She’s also interested in art education as a means to create community and preserve material culture, and she teaches textile techniques at multiple venues.
