Embroidery with exhibiting artist Katarzyna Perlak

Work with exhibiting artist Katarzyna Perlak to learn embroidery stitches and make a handkerchief like one from the artist's Bated Breath series, an ongoing series that form a stitched archive, using political moments or a proverbs that have personal significance.

The handkerchief holds many symbolic meanings relating to both personal and communal codes. Often seen as a tool for containing bodily fluids and emotion, it has also been used through history as a method of communication, ritualistically in traditional folk dances, and as a code for sexual preference in the LGBTQ+ community.

Participants can bring a handkerchief that belongs to them or a handkerchief can be provided.