Fiber Arts

Back by popular demand! Make a saucy needlework for your Valentine or yourself. Create a great gift guided by fiber artist Darci Lenker and tell someone how you really feel. No experience necessary and all materials are provided. Come laugh or blush with us.

Registration closes Feb 6.
If the workshop is postponed due to weather or unforeseen instructor circumstances, the rain date is Feb. 23.

This class is designed for those new to sewing, those who haven’t sewn in a while, those afraid of their machines, those who want to build a stronger sewing foundation or those needing a refresher on the basics of machine sewing. Instructor and artist Amber Lynn created a curriculum that is comprehensive and empowering for students. Using project-based learning, this class teaches how needles, threads, fabrics, stitches and your sewing machine work together as a team. Gain in-depth knowledge about your sewing machine while mastering the fundamentals of sewing through fun and useful projects.

An instructor-provided materials kit ($56.25) must be purchased on the first day. Students must provide their own working, preferably recently serviced, sewing machine to each meeting.

If you don’t have a sewing machine, you can rent one through Studio School. Daily rentals are $12. Four-week rentals are $40 and eight-week rentals are $80.

Course syllabus

Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly, and times are posted outside each studio.

A serger is required to take this class, which is designed for those new to serging, those who haven’t serged in a while, those afraid of their machines, those who want to build a stronger serging foundation or those needing a refresher on the basics of serging. You’ll learn to thread the serger correctly, understand tensions, adjust cutting widths, use differential feed, master critical techniques and learn the basics of construction. Gain in-depth knowledge about your serger and master the fundamentals by creating a personal serger guidebook.

Required supplies: a serviced serger, electric cord, foot pedal, machine manual, and all tools, feet, and accessories that came with the machine.

Students will purchase a kit of materials ($61.80) supplying four cones of serger thread, serging tools, some fabric and a serger guidebook. Additional fabric and notions, beyond what is supplied in the kit, will be needed. All supplies will be thoroughly discussed in class.

Course syllabus

Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly, and times are posted outside each studio.

Prerequisite: Sewing Fundamentals
Build on skills acquired in Sewing Fundamentals. Learn advanced sewing techniques, such as darts, ruffles, pleats and other shaping techniques, curved sewing, top stitching, lining, creating and using buttonholes, and understanding and utilizing all types of zippers and elastics.

An instructor-provided kit ($63) including materials as well as three of Amber’s favorite sewing tools, must be purchased on the first night of class. Beyond the required kit, you will need additional fabric and notions. Other required supplies: a serviced sewing machine, electric cord, foot pedal, machine manual and all tools, feet and accessories that came with your machine. Any additional needs will be discussed in class.

If you don’t have a sewing machine, you can rent one through Studio School. Daily rentals are $12. Four-week rentals are $40 and eight-week rentals are $80.

Course syllabus

Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly, and times are posted outside each studio.

Students are highly encouraged, but not required, to take Sewing Fundamentals prior to this course. In this relaxed approach to quilting techniques, you’ll learn a simple quilt block pattern and the basics of machine quilt construction, from start to finish.

You must be familiar with your sewing machine and the basics of sewing prior to enrolling in this class. Required supplies: a notebook and pen for notes, a serviced sewing machine, electric cord, foot pedal, machine manual, all tools, feet and accessories that came with your machine, and a ¼” quilting/piecing foot. You will also need additional fabric and notions. All supplies will be thoroughly discussed in the first class.

If you don’t have a sewing machine, you can rent one through Studio School. Daily rentals are $12. Four-week rentals are $40, and eight-week rentals are $80.

Course syllabus

Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly, and times are posted outside each studio.

Prerequisites: Sewing Fundamentals, Sewing Fundamentals Expanded

This advanced course expands the techniques taught in Sewing Fundamentals and Sewing Fundamentals Expanded. Learn the basics of taking and working with measurements and how to understand, work from and modify a simple pattern. Practice sophisticated sewing techniques while working on patterns chosen by instructor Amber Layne.

Students will purchase a course kit ($72.60) that includes a simple pattern and three of Amber’s favorite sewing tools, which aid in proper construction. Students will need some additional fabric and notions beyond what is supplied in the kit (these will be thoroughly discussed in class).

Course syllabus

Supplies required: a serviced sewing machine, electric cord, foot pedal, machine manual and all tools, feet and accessories that came with your machine.

If you don’t have a sewing machine, you can rent one through Studio School. Daily rentals are $12. Four-week rentals are $40 and eight-week rentals are $80.

Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly, and times are posted outside each studio.

Want to chill and make new stuff? Work with fiber artist Sherri Dudeck to learn fundamentals of floor loom weaving — and weave kitchen towels that will be the envy of your box-store shopping friends. Have the exclusive use of a loom for the duration of the class while learning basic weave patterns and loom set-up. Weaving is more fun than you think.

Course syllabus

Are you an intermediate weaver? Join our class and work independently on your own projects.

Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly, and times are posted outside each studio.

This class is designed for those new to sewing, those who haven’t sewn in a while, those afraid of their machines, those who want to build a stronger sewing foundation or those needing a refresher on the basics of machine sewing. Instructor and artist Amber Lynn created a curriculum that is comprehensive and empowering for students. Using project-based learning, this class teaches how needles, threads, fabrics, stitches and your sewing machine work together as a team. Gain in-depth knowledge about your sewing machine while mastering the fundamentals of sewing through fun and useful projects.

An instructor-provided materials kit ($56.25) must be purchased on the first day. Students must provide their own working, preferably recently serviced, sewing machine to each meeting.

Course syllabus

If you don’t have a sewing machine, you can rent one through Studio School. Daily rentals are $12. Four-week rentals are $40 and eight-week rentals are $80.

Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly, and times are posted outside each studio.

Join fiber artist Darci Lenker for a cheeky class exploring the playful side of food and sex. Explore your adult appetites and felt an eggplant or stuff a sausage of indeterminate length. Fans of the Great British Baking Show can experiment with soggy bottoms, stiff peaks and all types of tarts. (Wink, wink. Nudge, nudge.) Take life less seriously and learn to felt with us.

Course syllabus

Need inspiration? Check out our upcoming exhibition, The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.

Open Studio time is included with registration. Open Studio allows currently enrolled students to work on their projects in Oklahoma Contemporary’s studios outside of class meetings. Availability varies weekly, and times are posted outside each studio.