“Spring Chicken” Needle Felting Workshop for Beginners

Date: April 15, 2023
Time: 10:00 am
Location: Fenimore Art Museum, 5798 State Highway 80 (P.O.BOX 800) Cooperstown, NY 13326
Organizer: Fenimore Art Museum
Email address: INFO@FENIMOREART.ORG
Phone: 607-547-1400
Fenimore Art Museum

Work with Grey Fox Felting to make your own needle felted hen! All supplies provided, suitable for beginners!

Learn everything you need to know to begin needle felting, and create your own adorable hen in a relaxed and supportive environment. In this beginner friendly workshop, Erin Gardner will guide you as you create your own needle felted hen from start to finish. No felting experience is necessary. All materials are included. Workshop is suitable for teens and adults.

Erin Gardner is a fiber artist and educator, and the founder of Grey Fox Felting in New Hartford, NY. Erin has been working in the medium of felted wool for over a decade, and she finds joy in sharing this accessible and meditative art form with others through teaching workshops and designing kits. Erin teaches in-person and online workshops, and Grey Fox Felting offers a wide selection of felting supplies and kits for anyone wanting to give felting a try.

$75 members; $85 non-members. Includes materials. Register on Eventbrite.


About Fenimore Art Museum
Fenimore Art Museum, located on the shores of Otsego Lake—James Fenimore Cooper’s “Glimmerglass”—in historic Cooperstown, New York, features a wide-ranging collection of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings; more than 125,000 historic photographs representing the technical developments made in photography and providing extensive visual documentation of the region’s unique history; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions. Visit FenimoreArt.org