Pendle Hill’s vision is “to create peace with justice in the world by transforming lives.” Does that vision speak to you? Do you enjoy creating with fabric? Do you have experience with basic hand sewing? Join with other peacemakers and piece-makers to create a quilted work of art that expresses both your own fabric contribution and a shared vision of peacemaking in a quilted mandala.

The creative journey will begin with each participant playing with mixed media, reflecting, sketching, and capturing ideas in an art journal for the group project. Then the group will bring their ideas together to create a communal mandala quilt. Asake will guide participants in piecing together the quilt, which will be publicly displayed at Pendle Hill for all to experience. Music, meditation, journaling, and movement will be woven into the day’s art practice.

Leader(s)

Asake Denise Jones, M.S., M.Ed., is a mixed-media fiber artist dually certified as a life coach and transformative arts facilitator.  Her sewing skills were honed assisting her mother, Dorothy Foye, in her Philadelphia dressmaking business. Spirituality, mindfulness, science, and evidence-based practices inform her art and facilitation. Asake has more than 20 years experience facilitating workshops and retreats on education, personal development, and mixed-media fiber art.  She is documented in the publications: Communion of the Spirit, President Obama: A Celebration in Art Quilts, The Philadelphia Tribune, and Types and Shadows: Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts.

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