Alumnus Emily Tirella’s Secondhand Crafts Store Featured in Boston Globe
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The Boston Globe recently featured MassArt alumnus Emily Tirella, who was inspired to address high cost of art materials, especially reusable ones, by starting her own secondhand crafts store, Make & Mend, in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Andy Li handcrafts positivity, one pennant at a time
- Alumni in the News
- Fibers
- Fine Arts 3D
Our Fibers students learn a variety of traditional and contemporary fibers techniques in weaving, dyeing, felting and papermaking, in specialized shops and studios.
Fibers students work and learn in spacious and well-equipped weaving and fiber arts facilities that offer a wide range of technical possibilities – a loom room, surface design room, dark room, dye lab, papermaking studio, large-scale fiber projects studios – and in dedicated, individual studios for junior and senior majors.
MassArt’s incredible Loom room is a weaving lab, equipped with thirty 45-inch 8-harness Macomber looms and two 60-inch looms for wider and more complicated weaving.
In Intro to Weaving students learn an introduction to principles and techniques of floor loom weaving.
The yarn closet off the Loom Room.
MassArt’s Dye Lab within the 3D Fine Arts department
Students learn about using natural dyes to color fabric in our Material Color course.
In an ongoing collaboration between the Papermaking and Material Color classes, students exchange handmade paper and inks created using natural pigments.
A student works in her studio space.
Handmade paper samples hung up on a wall.
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