This six-week course will introduce students to the fiber arts via the craft of knitting. As an introductory course, the basics of knitting styles, stitches, and beginning methods of fabric creation will be covered. By the end of the course, students will have a firmer grasp on the material aspects of their medium including fiber and fabric properties, gauge, swatching, reading knitting charts, and seaming. The goal of the class will be working toward the creation of a basic garment such as a beanie, scarf, washcloth, blanket square, etc.
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Daniel Drennan ElAwar is an illustrator, printmaker, fiber artist, and educator. His work, based in a documentary genre, focuses primarily on issues of displacement, dispossession, and disinheritance. His research and practice concerning decolonization and resistance led to the founding in 2009 of a Beirut-based artists’ collective, جمع اليد (Jamaa Al-Yad). He currently manages the studio and workshops for Frontline Arts in Branchburg, NJ.
