Stitched Queer Baltimore at the Middendorf Gallery

Stitched Queer Baltimore - Installation at MICA’s Middendorf Gallery. March 4 - 10, 2016.

Queer Threads

The RuPaul Cross Stitch Animation Workshop in Queer Threads at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art.

Press: The New York Times, Hyperallergic, and OUT.

RuPaul Cross Stitch Animation Workshop - Combination of Front and Back Views (Back Flipped)

RuPaul Cross Stitch Animation Workshop - Combination of Front and Back Views

RuPaul Cross Stitch Animation Workshop - Back View

RuPaul Cross Stitch Animation Workshop

WonderRoot Podcast

Check out this podcast on the RuPaul Cross Stitch Animation Workshop.

RuPaul Cross Stitch Animation Workshop

Upcoming show Serving Face.

Art Papers

My RuPaul Cross Stitch Animation Workshop is featured in the July/August issue of Art Papers.

RuPaul Cross Stitch Animation Workshop : First 2 Finished Frames & Website Launch

The website for my RuPaul Cross Stitch Animation Workshop is up. Frame 7 by Jess Bernhart (above) and Frame 20 by Nathan Sharratt (below) are the first two frames to be completed.  33 more to go!

Stitch 'N' Bitch!

Mary's is hosting a Stitch 'n' Bitch for the RuPaul Cross Stitch Animation Workshop. Come check out the amazing work and get a peek at the process.

Olisa Corcoran's frame is coming along nicely! Thanks to Ben Cheaves for putting together the flyer and for helping organize the event.

RuPaul Cross Stitch Animation Workshop - WonderRoot Sessions

The are photos of the RuPaul Cross Stitch Animation Workshop from our time at WonderRoot.  We met over 4 Wednesday nights to learn cross stitch, view experimental animation, celebrate local drag, and discuss GIF culture.

Participating artists include:

Ashley Anderson, Paul Bazen, Kimberly Binns, Jess Bernhart, Katherine Bernhart, Rachel Burnstein, Clay Butterworth, Shay Buckley, Kaitlin Commiskey, Olisa Corcoran, Lauren Cunningham, Jared Dawson, Kate Doubler, Sarah Durning, Jane Garver, Maggie Ginestra, Sally Hansell, Brooke Hatfield, Tricia Hersey-Patrick, Andre Keichian, Taryn Kelly, Christina León, Adrienne Lowe, Romy Aura Maloon, Lauren Macdonald, Amy Salley, Steve Sauer, Chris Seely, Nathan Sharratt, Nathaniel Smith, Christa Tinsley Spaht, Hester Starnes, Mike Stasny, Drew Watts & Elizabeth Yates.

The workshop featured drag performances by:
Kryean Kally, Xee Xee Bow Dong, Justice Tyana Taylor, Lavonia Elberton, Cayenne Rouge, Violet Chachki (pictured above), & Ellisorous Rex.

RuPaul Cross Stitch Animation Workshop

Upcoming workshop! If you're local to ATL please consider signing up!
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During February and March, embroidery artist Aubrey Longley-Cook will lead a 4-week cross stitch workshop hosted by WonderRoot and Barbara Archer Gallery. Participants will learn the basics of cross stitch embroidery, while working together to create an embroidered animation of RuPaul from footage of “Supermodel,” a song and video that RuPaul released in 1992. Along with an introduction to the basics of cross stitch and contemporary embroidery, the workshop will include guest drag appearances, screenings of experimental animations, and discussions of web art and GIF culture.

Each participant will be assigned an individual template based on footage from the video and will be responsible for the creation of one of the cross stitch frames. The group will work together to choose a color palette for the frames. The embroideries will animate and loop when composited together. There will be two animations created from the project. One will document the front view of the frames and one of the back.

The frames along with the animations will be displayed as part of Longley-Cook's upcoming show Serving Face.  The embroideries will be framed for the show, and all participating artists will be credited for their work. The frames will be returned to the participants after the show.

Workshop Hours: February 20th, February 27th, March 6th, and March 13th from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM.

All materials will be provided. No cross stitch experience required. Register here.

This project is supported in part through an investment from Idea Capital, a community-based pool of funds created by and for the Atlanta arts community.

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