Flores Mexicanas: Tenango Daisy – July 16th: Tenango
Flores Mexicanas: Tenango Daisy – All Three Sessions
Parent & Kids: Make a Heart Shaped Cactus Bookmark – July 17th – 1pm-2:30pm
Parent & Kids: Make a Heart Shaped Cactus Bookmark – July 17th – 3pm-4:30pm
El Sol: a Crewel Embroidery Project
Parent & Kids: Make a Heart Shaped Cactus Bookmark – July 18th – 3pm-4:30pm
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Exhibit and Class at Las Cruces Museum of Art
Winner of the Joann Minority Creative Grant (2022)
State of the Arts Interview
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J&M Creations of El Paso will be hosting this Workshop where we celebrate our beautiful El Paso Community!
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Kaffa 128 will be hosting this Prickly Pear Hand Embroidery Workshop on Thursday August 24th at 7:00 PM
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About Me
I started hand embroidering gifts for friends and family.
Honestly, they were pretty bad, but they help me practice and practice and eventually get better with the craft.
Throughout this exploration process, I fell in love with the possibilities of the thread and the needle and started to create more elaborated designs, mixing with acrylic or watercolor painting, beading, appliqués or felt patches from time to time.
Currently I do commission works and teach workshops around my community
If you want to learn more about my journey and my art, see my complete “About Me” page.
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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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#handembroidery #fiberart #elpasoartist #elpasotx #elpasotexas #elpaso915
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
#elpasotx
#elpasotexas
#elpasoproud
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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#handembroidery #fiberart #elpasoartist #elpasotx #elpasotexas #elpasoproud
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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#mixmedia #fridakahlo #elpasotx #elpasotexas #elpasotx915
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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#fiberart #littleartists #elpasotx #elpaso915 #elpasoproud #elpasotexas
Hola!
Hope to see you this week at the studio.
This week’s classes are inspired on the life and works of Frida Kahlo.
And remember that this Saturday July 12th I’m hosting @christin.m.a here at the Cushi Cushi 915 Studio.
She’ll be teaching us how to work with illustrative mark-making and I’ll help you translate these into embroidery stitches to create your own patch.
Class is $60 per person with materials included and a portion of your ticket will be donated to @lasamericasimmigrantadvocacy
There’s only few spots available for this class so don’t wait. Sign up for this special class at @loveletters.ep
And on Sunday, I’m offering a big project class where you’ll learn how I’ve made some of my previous Frida themed fiber art pieces. This class requires previous practice of hand embroidery stitches such as pin wheel flower, satin stitch, French knots, basket weave stitch, Rhodes stitch and leaf stitch. We’ll be working with different fabrics, yarns, threads and needles, so it’ll be a fiber wonderland!!!
This is a big project and a small class.
Cost is $65 and there’s only 6 spots available.
For all my classes, you can find the registration links on my bio or just visit my website cushicushi915.com
Aqui los wachamos!!!
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#handembroidery #elpasotexas #elpasotx #elpasocounty #elpasoart #elpasoproud
“They thought I was a Surrealist but I wasn’t.
I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
- Frida Kahlo
6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954
An icon.
A woman that tried to live in her own terms most of her life.
Born with some privilege but also often discriminated and pushed back because of her own personal beliefs and political affiliation, and of course, because she was a woman.
And a very outspoken one.
A big name in Mexico’s contemporary history and art that got recognition only after her death.
Now she’s everywhere.
We eat her, we wear her, we display her in any imaginable way.
And although I don’t see this as a bad thing, I really hope we can be more willing to learn about her in the same way we consume her.
Read about her.
Watch documentaries about her, not only Salma’s movie.
Maybe plan a visit to her home in Mexico City one day!
And bring your families! Take your kids!
Learn about her world and what inspire her, and I’ll assure you, you’ll understand so much more about Mexico, about the importance of her art and you most definitely will be inspired!
Viva Frida!!
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#fridakahlo #fridainspired #friducha #vivalavida #piesparaquelosquierositengoalasparavolar #elpasotx
Hola!!
I did a collab with an amazing furry and sweet artist named Chess!!
Our piece, along with other collabs by local artists and pups, will be part of the Pet Gala that will benefit the amazing people at @rescuerunners915
The Gala will take place this Saturday July 5th from 6pm to 9pm at the @oldsheepdogbrewery and all the artwork will be available for Auction
And btw, Chess is up for adoption through @epanimalsvc, so come meet him and his fellow furry and human friends at the Gala.
** Shoutout to @clabernalstudio for helping Chess to create his masterpiece and for letting me use her video🙌
Aca los wachamos!!!
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#handembroidery #petportrait #elpasodogs #elpasoartist #elpasotx #elpasoproud
‘Fellow-citizens; above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, to-day, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them.
If I do forget, if I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day, “may my right hand forget her cunning, and may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth!”
To forget them, to pass lightly over their wrongs, and to chime in with the popular theme, would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world.’
- Frederick Douglass, ‘What to the slave is the fourth of July’ | 1852
Hola!!!
Happy Tuesday!!
Here’s the schedule for this week’s classes at the studio.
I’m offering some activities for parents with kids and some very red, white and blue inspired projects.
We also have an Open Studio session on Sunday morning where you can come and make whatever you want, including previous projects offered here at the studio.
DM me if you have any questions or like more info.
Aqui los wacho!!!
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#handembroidery #diystudio #learntoembroider #elpasotexas #elpasotx #elpasoproud #elpasostrong
Children are amazing!
They’re a constant reminder to all of us of how life needs nurturing, and also, that learning really never ends, just like creativity, and we all have it in us.
I’m so happy these kiddos got to stay away from screens at least for 3 hours everyday last week with us at the @elpasomuseumofart
It fills my heart with joy every time I see them mastering a new stitch and then wanting to do more and more each session.
To feed their curiosity and creativity, they really just need our time and patience. That’s all.
So thank you parents for seeing art as an investment and not as an expense for your children. Thank you for trusting us with your most precious.
Thank you for supporting our community museums and programs.
We’ll be back on Monday July 7th for another week of fun and art you can still sign up your kids.
So, ahí los wacho!!❤️🪡❤️
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#handembroidery #embroideryforkids #learntoembroider #elpasotx #elpasotexas #elpasoproud
Está lloviending with sunshine oigan!!🌧️.☀️🌧️.☀️
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#handembroidery #artiststudio #fiberart #elpasotx
If you’re available this Friday June 27th please consider joining my bandana class🙌
You can stitch anything you want in one of the corners and I will be helping you creating a cool and unique piece.
Class is this Friday, from 7pm to 9pm.
Cost is $35 per person with many options of materials and light snacks included.
Or, you are welcome to BYOB🍷🍺!!😉
There’s still 6 spots available, so hope you can sign up!
Aqui los wacho!!!!
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#handembroidery #fiberart #diystudio #elpasotexas #elpasotx #elpasoproud
Happy Wednesday!!
Take a few seconds to appreciate the possibilities of the French Knot❤️🪡❤️
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#handembroidery #frenchknots #frenchknot #elpasotx #elpasofiberart #elpasoartist
Let’s think of fresh things 🍋
Maybe that way we won’t feel like we’re bursting into flames🔥🥵🔥!!!
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#handembroidery #needlepainting #learntoembroider #elpasotx #elpasotexas #elpasoartist
Thank you so much @everyday.honey.studio for sharing your talent with us at the studio!!!
Can’t wait for our follow up ‘meet & stitch’ session to keep creating and building community.
And if you missed this class, don’t worry, Rosabril will be back at the studio soon! Please follow her socials and check other classes that she’ll be doing in different places around EP.
And thank you for supporting your local embroiderers!🙌
Los wacho soon!!
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#handembroidery #learntoembroider #slowstitching #elpasotx #elpasotexas
Last call for registrations my friends!
Come make a floating🫀heart.
Register with the link in my bio.
Aqui los wacho!!!
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#handembroidery #learntoembroider #elpasotx #elpaso915 #elpasotexas
Los niños también bordan🙌🪡🙌
And they can be super stitchers and benefit from this awesome craft.
Starting in July, I’ll be offering a once per week morning Parent & their Kid(s) session.
Projects will be short, simple and fun!
So, if you have a tiny fiber enthusiast, come and join me!!
🪡Classes suitable for kids ages 5-9.
🪡Registration will open on Wednesday June 25th.
🪡 $25 per kid.
🪡 90 minute maximum duration for each class.
🪡 All materials included.
🪡 Only 5 kids per session.
🪡 Kids have to be accompanied by a parent/caregiver adult all the time.
🪡 All Classes are FINAL and NON-REFUNDABLE
🪡 No credits or refunds will be provided for non-attendance and/or cancellations.
Try something new with your kiddo.
Try hand embroidery!😉🪡
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#handembroidery #embroideryforkids #elpasotexas #elpasotexas #fiberart #losniñostambiénbordan
Kiddos can benefit sooooo much from stitching!
Hand embroidery enhances their fine motor skills, and hand-eye coordination, while also promoting creativity, patience and composure.
I’m creating a few DIY embroidery kits for kiddos.
These include pre-trace felt fabric cutouts, needle, thread and poly filling to make a fluffy and cute plushie.
I’ll have them available this Saturday afternoon at the Night Pop Up Market at @marginnotesbookbar (from 7pm to 11pm) along with other cute art pieces, wearable art and DIY kits so you can get crafty while sipping a glass (or two!😉) of wine.
Hope to see you there!
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#handembroidery #diyplushie #learntoembroider #elpasotx #elpasotexas #elpasoproud
The only Monstera plant you won’t be able to kill 🌱
Come to the @cushicushi915 studio and make this project on Thursday June 19th from 6pm to 9pm.
Aquí los wacho!!
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#handembroidery #monsterart #monsteraembroidery #elpasotx #elpasocounty #elpaso915 #elpasoproud