Stitching Memory: Fabric Appliqué Workshop with Hangama Amiri
A program of:
Hangama Amiri: PARTING/فراق
Saturday, March 7, 2026
Exhibition Tour: Artist Hangama Amiri and Curator Elizabeth Diggon in Conversation
1pm–2pm
Drop-ins welcome. No registration required.
Stitching Memory: Fabric Appliqué Workshop with Hangama Amiri
2pm–4pm
Registration is required. Please register on Eventbrite.
Location:
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery
7 Hart House Circle
Join us for an afternoon exploring the themes, materials, and processes in the exhibition Hangama Amiri: PARTING/فراق. through an artist-led tour and workshop!
From 1pm–2pm, artist Hangama Amiri and curator Elizabeth Diggon will lead a guided tour of the exhibition. Come hear how Amiri translates her personal history and diasporic experience into lushly detailed textile collages that focus on her parents, constituting the ongoing body of work presented in PARTING/فراق. These textiles, through their uniquely close relationship to home and the body, become perfumed with meaning and memory over time.
Following the exhibition tour, join Amiri for Stitching Memory: A Fabric Appliqué Workshop. The two-hour session invites participants to reflect and share their ideas of home, personal events, or special memories—of a place, a person, a dish, a scent, or an object. Together, we will transform the ideas into drawings and further into a textile piece of your own.
Participants are encouraged to bring an item related to their home: it can be an object, a photograph, a text, or a piece of memorabilia. To begin, participants will be provided with heavy papers to glue down their fabric patches from their items in whichever sizes and forms. The artist will then perform and instruct participants in fabric appliqué, a quilting technique in which they will use scissors to cut out shapes from fabrics and later patch them together by gluing them onto heavy paper. We will experiment with different collages in materials, colours, textures, surfaces, and compositions with fabrics.
Through layers of artistic transformation, the result will hopefully bring a new translation to the original item, a new idea to home and memory through the participants’ own creation.
Registration is required for the workshop. No registration is necessary for the exhibition tour. Materials will be provided.
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Image: Hangama Amiri, Portait of a Man at the Grocery Store, 2022. Muslin, cotton, polyester, dyed fabric, velvet, chiffon, mesh-fabric, inkjet print on silk-chiffon, clear vinyl, leather, suede, and found fabrics. Courtesy of the artist and T293, Rome. Photo by Blaine Campbell.
