Miriam creates educational textile workshops to facilitate meditative experiences and relationship building. Themes include: mental health, community, relationship to the body and earth.

Tailored Workshops are project and area specific. It requires interviewing stakeholders, knowing audience focus and goals to adjust facilitation needs.

Facilitation adjustments can include learning disability accommodations, such as breaks, speed and length of workshop.

For interest in booking a private or public workshop event, please email: mirihuesnyc@gmail.com

Tailored Workshops

Featured Projects

Sten Malmquist Grant Workshops

Created and facilitated four unique textile education workshops. adjusted for participating group, depending on their needs. Adjusted audience needs: middle school students, students with disabilities, students ages 65+, immigrant students.

Associated with What Comes from the Ground Project

Facilitated Workshops:

  • 2-Day Rust Dye Workshop

  • 2-Day Earth Bundle Dye Workshop

  • 2-Day Bundle Dye Workshop

  • 1-Day Weaving Workshop

Bundle Dye Workshop

Rituals 2019 (Earth Bundle Dye Workshop)

Rust Dye Workshop 2019 (Wrapping the Fabric)

Rust Dyeing Workshop 2019 (Choosing your Object)

City Artist Corps Grant: Earth Bundle Dyeing Workshop

Facilitated in a community garden, this free public engagement included a 2-day Earth Bundle Dyeing Workshop. Inspired by the Sten Malm Quist Grant Workshops, this project focused on themes of grief, release of burdens and unyielding expectations.

Day One:

  • Bundle-dyeing

  • Letter writing for our bundles: Letting go and Hopes for the future

  • Burying our bundles

Day Two (3-weeks later):

  • Unwrapping bundles

  • Sharing thoughts on art expectations

  • Learning how to be vulnerable with each other

  • Learning how to allow for transformation

2-Day Earth Bundle Dyeing Workshop

Past Workshops

Bundle Dyeing Workshops, Bay Ridge Open Streets

Once a month during Bay Ridge Open Streets, free Bundle Dyeing Workshops would take place. Designed for all ages and for participants with limited time.

Youth Education, Textile Arts Center

Textile education for primary school students during afterschool hours.