Workshop: Community Crocheting

Join the TUAG Student Programming Committee for a crochet workshop with Leslie Rogers, SMFA Professor of the Practice in Sculpture. Taking inspiration from Tomashi Jackson’s use of fibers, knitwear, and woven elements in Across the Universe, Rogers will teach participants some basic techniques. Together, we can knit community via shared artmaking. 

Leslie Rogers is an interdisciplinary artist based in Detroit and Boston, and a Professor of the Practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Art at Tufts University. Her background is in puppetry and quilting, and her degrees are from the Maryland Institute College of Art (BFA) and Virginia Commonwealth University’s Sculpture & Extended Media (MFA).  

Rogers has shown or performed at The Hammer Museum and Human Resources in LA, Threewalls, Links Hall, and ACRE TV in Chicago, The Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit as part of ESPTV, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, as well as out of her van over a 9000 mile ‘Merikan Merkintile tour with musician Nelly Kate. In Detroit, she has also shown at Cave Gallery, Public Pool, Wasserman Projects, The College for Creative Studies, Salon Catroit, the Good Tyme Writers Buffet, and has published and performed with Barbed Magazine. In Philadelphia, she curated exhibits as a member of the Little Berlin and touring performance with Puppet Uprising, was a founding member of PuppeTyranny performance collective, and has shown or performed at Fjord, Practice Gallery, Vox Populi, AUX, AWFUL Wrestling, International House, Bodega, Little Berlin, and others.   

Image: Tomashi Jackson, Alteronce in Hannah (Oliver Brown, et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, et al.), 2018.