Artist to Artist Workshops
Community Safety & Hand Embroidery
Ages 18 and up
April 1–22, 2026
6–8pm, Wednesdays
Image Credit: Heather Scholl
Instructor
Heather Scholl
Pricing
Tiered Pricing: $45, $120, $220, or $320 + $30 registration fee
Dates
1 - 22 April
This course explores personal and collective ideas of safety through hand embroidery. Learners will reflect on trauma, privilege, marginalization, and violence while learning basic embroidery techniques. Drawing from writers and activists, guided discussion, and the meditative practice of sewing, learners will create embroidered pieces representing their understanding of safety. In the final class, learners’ individual works will be combined into a collective “web of safety.”
For a longer course description, please visit The School of Making Thinking’s page.
About Heather Scholl
Heather Marie Scholl is a hand embroidery and interdisciplinary artist based in Philadelphia. Her work investigates the intersections of race, gender, and trauma through personal and national narratives. In 2015, Scholl began a series “Whitework,” confronting white women’s roles in white supremacy. This led to co-founding Confront White Womanhood, an anti-racism education initiative for white women, including the workshop “The Violence of White Women’s Safety.” Since 2020 she has addressed LGBTQ+ Domestic Violence through the art series “Resurrection of a Victim” and related public programming, including “Safety Together: DV in the Dyke+ community”. Scholl’s art work has been exhibited across the United States and has been written about in Slate, Cosmopolitan, i-D magazine, and others. www.heathermariescholl.com
About
Community and Hand Embroidery is presented as part of Artist to Artist: a class series by Abrons Arts Center and The School of Making Thinking.