“Friction” Wet Felting workshop w/ Yasmine K. Kasem

**This workshop is currently full, but sometimes spots open up closer to the date. If you would like to join the waitlist for this workshop, email yasmine@artreachsandiego.org to be added!**

Wet felting is a process of creating an artwork through intentionally tangling and matting wool together involving friction, fat, and heat. This transformative process takes layers of soft fragile fibers and renders them into imagery, patterns or objects that are strong and durable, but also soft and flexible.

In this workshop, learn the process of wet felting by creating textile pieces that use imagery inspired by transformative and enduring aspects of identity.

Yasmine K. Kasem is an interdisciplinary artist who focuses on the precariousness within the layers of identity and what it is to be Egyptian – American, Muslim and Queer. Kasem has exhibited regionally and internationally and her work is part of both private and public collections, such as the San Diego Civic Art Collection. Notable exhibitions include Visions and Nightmares at Simone Subal Gallery, NY, NY, “middle” at Bread And Salt CA, and “In the Adjacent Possible” at the John Michael Kohler Art Center, WI. SPRING/ BREAK NAKED LUNCH, LA Art Fair 2023 curated by Rokhsane Hoviada, and Sense of Self: the Islamic Contemporary at the University of Michigan.