Workshops & events
Catalyst Fiber Workshop offers a variety of opportunities for folks to engage in fiber arts and creativity. Join us for open studio sessions, community craft gatherings, and half + full day workshops.
experimental basket club
These basket focused Craft Gatherings are designed for folks with some prior basketry knowledge to come together to share skills, build relationships and inspire one another. Bring a current work in process or some materials, grab a friend, and join us to coil, twine and weave together.
Open studio
We are opening the studio on select Saturdays to provide work space, equipment access, and project support.
$25/ 3 hours 10am-1pm & 2-5pm
craft gathering
These Sunday afternoon Craft Gatherings are designed for us to come together to build relationships and inspire one another. Bring a current work in process, grab a friend, and join us to spin, stitch, or mend together.
experimental basket club
These basket focused Craft Gatherings are designed for folks with some prior basketry knowledge to come together to share skills, build relationships and inspire one another. Bring a current work in process or some materials, grab a friend, and join us to coil, twine and weave together.
Workshop: long stitch bookbinding
Let's create a handsewn sketchbook to capture our new year energy and fresh ideas. In this workshop, you will make a cloth book cover, prepare paper for your pages, and sew it all together with a long stitch spine sewing technique.
$115 - materials included
Workshop: storytelling through cloth
How does text and textile connect?
In this 1 day workshop, we will begin to tell our stories through hands-on making in the techniques of sewing and stitching. Learning the basics of embroidery, appliqué and other fiber construction like simple quilt blocks and textile collage. Participants will explore some possibilities that exist within the stitched thread making a small story quilt.
$145 - materials included
experimental basket club
These basket focused Craft Gatherings are designed for folks with some prior basketry knowledge to come together to share skills, build relationships and inspire one another. Bring a current work in process or some materials, grab a friend, and join us to coil, twine and weave together.
Workshop: Backyard baskets: coiling with kudzu
Many local plants lend themselves to basket making. In this Coiled Basketry workshop, we’ll harvest kudu vines, prepare our materials and create a basket.
$180 - materials included
experimental basket club
These basket focused Craft Gatherings are designed for folks with some prior basketry knowledge to come together to share skills, build relationships and inspire one another. Bring a current work in process or some materials, grab a friend, and join us to coil, twine and weave together.
Open studio
We are opening the studio on select Saturdays to provide work space, equipment access, and project support.
$25/ 3 hours 10am-1pm & 2-5pm
craft gathering
These Sunday afternoon Craft Gatherings are designed for us to come together to build relationships and inspire one another. Bring a current work in process, grab a friend, and join us to spin, stitch, or mend together.
experimental basket club
These basket focused Craft Gatherings are designed for folks with some prior basketry knowledge to come together to share skills, build relationships and inspire one another. Bring a current work in process or some materials, grab a friend, and join us to coil, twine and weave together.
experimental basket club
These basket focused Craft Gatherings are designed for folks with some prior basketry knowledge to come together to share skills, build relationships and inspire one another. Bring a current work in process or some materials, grab a friend, and join us to coil, twine and weave together.
Open studio
We are opening the studio on select Saturdays to provide work space, equipment access, and project support.
$25/ 3 hours 10am-1pm & 2-5pm
craft gathering
These Sunday afternoon Craft Gatherings are designed for us to come together to build relationships and inspire one another. Bring a current work in process, grab a friend, and join us to spin, stitch, or mend together.
Catalyst OPEN HOUSE
Stop by to see the studio, try your hand at loom weaving, enjoy some winter treats, and check out work for sale by our current Resident Artists.
craft gathering
These Sunday afternoon Craft Gatherings are designed for us to come together to build relationships and inspire one another. Bring a current work in process, grab a friend, and join us to spin, stitch, or mend together.
Open studio
We are opening the studio on select Saturdays to provide work space, equipment access, and project support.
$25/ 3 hours 10am-1pm & 2-5pm
Workshop: natural dye watercolors
This workshop will show you how to make a lake pigment from your leftover natural dye baths, and turn these gorgeous colors into a collection of paints, watercolors and inks. We will spend the afternoon making a few sets of watercolors, one for you and some to gifts!
$85 - materials included
craft gathering
These free Sunday afternoon Craft Gatherings are designed for us to come together to build relationships and inspire one another. Bring a current work in process, grab a friend, and join us to spin, stitch, or mend together.
Open studio
We are opening the studio on select Saturdays to provide work space, equipment access, and project support.
$25/ 3 hours 10am-1pm & 2-5pm
craft gathering
These free Sunday afternoon Craft Gatherings are designed for us to come together to build relationships and inspire one another. Bring a current work in process, grab a friend, and join us to spin, stitch, or mend together.
Open studio
We are opening the studio on select Saturdays to provide work space, equipment access, and project support.
$25/ 3 hours 10am-1pm & 2-5pm