Intro to Quiltmaking: Patchwork, Appliqué, and Stitching in Community
Available spots
Service Description
Sunday’s: 1-4pm In this course, artist Malavika Rao, invites students into the slow and thoughtful practice of quilting. Students will explore patchwork, appliqué, and surface design through a mix of guided demos and personal experimentation, culminating in a completed quilted piece. Together, we will reflect on quilting’s deep histories of care, resistance, and community. Each participant will create a small quilted work through a process of experimentation and shared learning—moving at their own pace, in good company. Malavika Rao is a multidisciplinary artist and educator primarily working in fiber, and installation. Malavika’s practice recontextualizes practices of homemaking as methods of worldmaking, using craft to heal generational trauma and tend to the fragile relationship between care and survival. In their installations, malavika employs various crafting practices as modes of speculative world-building—creating spaces to interrogate inherited structures of care. They propose alternative relational frameworks grounded in reciprocity and collective sustenance, invoking a deeper, cosmological sense of interconnectedness, where the act of making becomes a ritual of repair, attunement, and orientation toward life-affirming futures. Malavika just returned to Los Angeles after serving as the Spring 2025 Fiber Fellow at Colorado College, where they taught a course on quiltmaking and developed new work for a solo exhibition featuring a large-scale patchworked installation and story quilts. https://malavikarao.com/
Upcoming Sessions
Cancellation Policy
Studio Policies Payment in full is needed at the time of registration. Student cancellations more than 4 weeks in advance of a workshop are fully refundable, minus a 20% processing fee. Cancellations 2-4 weeks in advance are 50% refundable, minus a 20% processing fee. There is no refund for cancellations made less than 2 weeks before the workshop. The only exception to this policy is if your spot can be filled from a waitlist, in which case you will receive your refund minus a 20% processing fee. If a workshop is cancelled by an Instructor for any reason you will receive a full refund, unless you prefer to apply your payment to another workshop.