ONLINE COURSE
Storytelling with Photo Embroidery and Mixed Media
Most of our pictures exist on either a digital display or as a mostly two-dimensional print. In this class, you’ll take your photos into the third dimension by incorporating embroidery and mixed media, expanding the depth and richness of their meaning and storytelling. Using a variety of creative methods — cutting, glueing, embroidery, photo transfer on fabric, letter embroidery, and more — you can create an intimate and unique object that better tells your individual, personal story. By exploring the surface of a print with different techniques and materials, a new story will arise. Through discussion, we’ll examine the process of deciding when and how to hide, change, or emphasize the story of a picture. You’ll be introduced to different techniques using relatively simple tools like scissors, glue, needle and thread, a printer, some fabric — no embroidery skills are necessary.
Jolanda Drukker Murray is a contemporary sculptor and textile artist based in Utrecht (The Netherlands). She studied art history at Leiden University and attended a program at Artibus Art School Utrecht with a focus on ceramics and bronze. She began collecting fabrics and creating wall hangings which were exhibited in several shows. She also created a “Circle of Life in 10 Kimonos” for the Kröller-Müller Museum. Jolanda specializes in “documentary embroidery”: telling stories using embroidery as well as mixed media techniques on photos and pictures from magazines. Her latest textile installation Stonehenge is a combination of photo embroidery, embroidery. and stitch work. She is currently working on Dialogue between Photography and Embroidery, an artbook in which she is embroidering on photos by the Dutch photographer Milja Markies.
Jolanda teaches embroidery and mixed media techniques for StrudelmediaLive.