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MCASD invites you to an afternoon of creativity, community, and connection.
In conversation with Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beats and Alicia Keys, and guided by artist Denja Harris, participants will collaborate on a fiber artwork through the transformative practice of tufting — a tactile, meditative craft where loops of yarn are punched through a canvas to build texture and color.
Harris' workshop speaks directly to the spirit of the exhibition, entering into dialogue with the bold material investigations of Qualesha Wood and the dynamic, sculptural energy of Kennedy Yanko, whose works in Giants explore texture, abstraction, and the expressive potential of unconventional materials.
Refreshments will also be available for purchase on site.
Tufting Experience ticket holders will each have the opportunity to contribute to the collaborative piece on a 5x5 frame during tufting rotations. There will be two participants at a time and 10-minute turns.)
The Social Pass Ticket includes access to the artist talk by Denja Harris and an opportunity to observe live tufting. In addition, mingle with your fellow art community in this engaging studio environment with music and ocean views.
The Tufting Experience Ticket includes the Social Pass Ticket, hands-on tufting, your first refreshment on us, and light bites.
Members receive 50% off both ticket types.
Denja Harris is a San Diego-based artist whose tactile yarn paintings and dimensional works engage both traditional and contemporary fiber practices. Her work approaches softness as both material and metaphor, exploring vulnerability, memory, and transformation through process driven making.
Through labor, intuition, and improvisation, she allows materials to guide the work. Using both dead-stock and new yarns, she constructs layered surfaces that blur the line between painting, gesture, and abstraction, exploring how color and texture can hold memory and act as sites of connection.
Denja has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at the Oceanside Museum of Art (Oceanside, CA) and McDonough Museum of Art (Youngstown, OH), and has an upcoming exhibition at Visions Museum of Textile Art (San Diego, CA). She has also led workshops and demonstrations at institutions including San Diego City College, Monarch School, and Mingei International Museum.