Welcome to
Cushi Cushi 915

Hola friends!!

This is a PSA for my dear friends at @ktep.fm 88.5FM and for one of EP’s most hard working and passionate community givers, my dear friends @marinamonsis

For 75 years, KTEP has been a trusted voice for arts, culture, news, and storytelling in our region—and @cushicushi915 has been part of that story...

I’m super grateful to KTEP!!!

Right now, they’re facing an unexpected $204,592 funding gap, and they need our support to bridge it.
So let’s donate and help our local university radio station!!!

Follow and visit @ktep.fm and @marinamonsis or visit my stories to find the link to donate.

I also encourage my fellow artists and cultural organizations to help spread the word and donate:
@gabaldonart
@aghaahatco
@dr_joseyp
@christin.m.a
@hal.marcus.9
@bravebooks.tx
@imoaep
@elpasoartassociation
@elpasomuseumofart
@therealfitfamelpaso
@elpasomatters
@elpasolibrary
@elpasomcad
@elpasomacc
@ortegtino
@theutepdinnertheatre
@utepcreativewriting
@epcc.papagayo
@marianna.olague
@t.z.hernandez
@stroncoso6
@mysticdesertstudio
@lanube915
@kruxfm
@teatroneplanta
@alessandranarvaezvarela
@adri.mnz
@mlimongarza
@los_actores_eptx
@kids_n_co_official
@the_falstaff_
@super.ultra.nova
@otro_limon
@lemontree_pro
@plazaclassicfilmfestival

We can do this!! Claro que podemos!!!💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

Ahí los wachoooo!!!
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Not exactly born out of boredom, but also I’ve never been able to just sit and stare at the ceiling 😂
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Milagros “con chilitos”🌶️😂 (according to one of my students) came out very pretty and it went to a good home this past weekend!🙌

Thank you all for your support!!

Hope to see you at my upcoming market events:
🪡 Thursday July 31st, 6pm to 10pm: Last Thursdays at @the_falstaff_ / @super.ultra.nova
🪡 Saturday August 2nd, 6pm to 10pm: Crafty Tianguis at @cantareras_

Ahí los wachoooo!!!!
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Thank you @pimienta_estudiotextil for coming to @cushicushi915 and sharing your craft with us this weekend.
It was so much fun to learn how to prep our frames and how to use them to weave. Can’t wait to have you here with us again!!

And btw, if you couldn’t make it to this one don’t worry, Joana will be back in August 30th to teach a Punch Needle Workshop, so stay tuned for registrations!!!

Aca los wachamos!!!
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#loomweaving #fiberart #textileart #elpasotx #elpasotexas #elpaso915 #elpasoproud ...

Holaaaa!!
These are our Upcoming Guest Teaching Artists at the CushiCushi915 Fiber Art Studio for August, and they’re all so amazing that I want to run out to the street and scream of joy and excitement!!!🙌

🪡 Sunday August 3rd: Needle Felting with @qmcrafts.needlefelting
🪡 Saturday August 9th: Peyote Stitch Workshop with @cindy_gutierrez_krapp @aghaahatco
🪡 Sunday August 10th: La Gallinita Embroidery with @everyday.honey.studio
🪡 Friday August 15th:Colcha Embroidery with LuAnn Kildey @sheepshenanigansart
🪡 Sunday August 24th: Bead work on Clothes with @la.dolz
🪡 Saturday August 30th: Punch Needle with @pimienta_estudiotextil

Hope you can come and support us!!
Aqui los wachamos!!!
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Hola!!
Stick and ‘Stitch+Thread’ Bundles by CushiCushi915 are now available!!🙌🪡🙌

Only $15 each or 2 x $25 with different designs (made by yours truly of course!!) and embroidery thread skeins in very bold and vibrant colors.

Just stick the pattern to your clean pre-washed shirt, tote bag or any other fabric ideally without any stretch (especially if you started embroidering recently), stitch, rinse with lukewarm water y listo!!
You got yourself a cool hand embroidered design🙌🪡🙌

Visit me tonight at the @oldsheepdogbrewery and tomorrow at @properprintshop
Check my stories for times, y pos’ ahí los wachooooo!!!
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Back to school: fiber artist edition!!🙌🪡🙌

With my “kids” already attending college and high school, I really don’t need to buy much for their back to school.
I’m also blessed to not have them asking me for the latest trends in clothes, tech or shoes because they really just don’t care.

So, this is my first “back to school” season where I’m treating MYSELF to some materials that will help me with my own art projects💪🏽🪡💪🏽
So in a way, I’m the one going “back to art school”🙌🪡🙌

Do you also get excited or have a special love for any material, utensil or anything else that makes you feel like you’re back to learning?!
Tell me about it! I would love to read your comments!❤️

Ahí los wacho!!!
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#handembroideryartist #fiberart #elpasoart #backtoschool #backtocrafting #elpasotx ...

Thank you so much @cindy_gutierrez_krapp / @aghaahatco for coming again to the studio and sharing your craft with us!

Cindy will be back on Saturday August 9th so stay tuned for upcoming details.

Check our other amazing classes by guest teaching Artists:
🪡 Loom Weaving with @pimienta_estudiotextil : Saturday July 26
🪡 Needle Felting with @qmcrafts.needlefelting : Sunday August 2
🪡 Colcha Embroidery with @sheepshenanigansart : Friday August 15

And more!l will be added later!

For more info about these classes, please visit the links in my bio.

Aca los wachamos!!!
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#fiberart #learntoembroider #elpasotx #elpasotexas #elpasoproud ...

Hola!!!
Hope you can come to the CushiCushi 915 Fiber Art Studio this week and get stitchy with me!!

Bring your friends, bring your kiddos, or just bring yourself and have a great time creating something beautiful.

And, this weekend you can also take classes with these amazing Guest Teaching Artists:

🪡 Friday July 18, come and learn how to crochet with @cosmicfiber
There’s only 4 spots left for this class and you can sign up now with the link in my bio.

🪡 Saturday 19 and Sunday 20, come and learn bead weaving with @aghaahatco
Saturday session you’ll be making a beaded bracelet with increases and decreases. There’s only 2 spots left for this class.
Sunday session is for participants with previous experience and you’ll learn how to make a beaded hat band.
For more info and registrations, please visit @aghaahatco

Y como siempre, aquí los wachooooo!!🪡
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Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón
(July 6, 1907 – July 13, 1954)

Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Also inspired by the country’s popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society.

Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist. She is known for painting about her experience of chronic pain, so that’s why for me she’s like the official santa patrona of pain and aches.

She married twice, divorced once and separated countless times from Diego Rivera and both had numerous affairs, hobnobbed with Communists, capitalists and literati and managed to create some of the most compelling visual images of the 20th century. Filled with such luminaries as writer André Breton, sculptor Isamu Noguchi, playwright Clare Boothe Luce and exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, Kahlo’s life played out on a phantasmagorical canvas.

She enjoyed life fully and passionately. “It is not worthwhile,” she once said, “to leave this world without having had a little fun in life.”
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#vivalavida
#vivalafrida
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Deeply grateful to @christin.m.a for coming to the studio and sharing some great ideas with us on creating mark-making illustrations.
We had a great time creating our patches!!!🙌🪡🙌
And a big thank you to our participants for helping us support the @lasamericasimmigrantadvocacy

Make sure to follow Christin and also follow her projects @loveletters.ep and @kissingcactuses

Christin was the first Guest Teaching Artist but we have more amazing artists coming up this month:

July 18 - Basic Crochet with Andy Castaneda from @cosmicfiber
July 19 & July 20 - Beadwork bracelet & Beadwork Hat Band with Cindy from @aghaahatco and @pinsandneedlesep
July 26 - Loom weaving with Joana from @pimienta_estudiotextil

You can register for all these classes with the links in bio or follow the artists for more information.

And as always, aquí los wachoooo!!!
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Thank you to everyone that came this Friday afternoon to @suncitysawdust !!!

What an amazing way to celebrate Frida’s life!!
You all did amazing with your mix media postcards.

Can get enough Frida?
Visit tomorrow’s event ‘Fiesta de Frida’ at @shopepfinest!! They’re having an amazing art show in downtown EP with many amazing local artists. Don’t miss it!!🙌❤️🙌

And if you feel crafty, I’m having two more Frida classes this Sunday July 13 at my studio and we still have some spots available.
For more info and registrations, just visit the links on my bio.

Aca los wacho!!!
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I think switching the name of my class from Hand embroidery to Textile Arts was an amazing idea.
At the beginning, I was a little nervous with the change because I didn’t know if parents and kids would be interested in exploring a class for a whole week during summer that would imply working with fiber everyday.

I was also a bit insecure of jumping into mix media with kids. I had done it myself before with some of my pieces, but I hadn’t taught anyone else something like this. So it was also a new venture for me.

But I just love it!!!

I love how the kids are embracing this expressive and soft techniques. I’m amazed by their willingness to experience and combine stitches with painting, quilting with bargello needlework, beads or sequins with embroidery, or everything at the same time.

Here’s a little bit of their amazing creations this week.

And you still have a chance to sign up your kids for our last week of Art Summer Camps at the @elpasomuseumofart
Camp will run from Monday July 21 to Friday July 25 from 10am to 1pm.

For more information and registration, please visit the museum’s socials.
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