Fibre FURever: Spinning with Animal Hair
Saturday May 25
10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Instructor: Timothy Manalo
Materials Fee: $41.00 (paid to Instructor)
Students: 8
This one-day workshop teaches basic skills in making spun yarn from collected pet hair. This includes dogs, cats, rabbits, and other domesticated animals that yields animal hair at least one inch (1”) in length. Through hands-on activities, students will learn how to card their animal hair and spin yarn using a drop-spindle. At the end of the workshop, students will have made their own spun yarn that can be used for a variety of textile applications.
Timothy Manalo is a sculpture, textile, and installation artist born and raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2010, he graduated with a Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from OCAD University, majoring in Sculpture and Installation. In 2019, he completed a Master’s in Fine Arts in Studio Art from the SMFA at Tufts University in Boston, with a Certificate in Museum Studies. Manalo has exhibited in galleries in Canada and the United States that include the Canadian Sculpture Centre in Toronto, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, and was an artist-in-residence at Franconia Sculpture Park in Shafer, Minnesota. He also received grants from the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts. Manalo was a recipient of the 2023/2024 Leisa Rich Fibre Arts Residency Award at the Contemporary Textile Studio and Co-op in Toronto, and is currently a Researcher at The After School, with the Center for Arts, Design and Social Research. This summer he will be an artist-in-residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP) in Brooklyn, New York.