WORKSHOPS: Darning & Quilting

In conjunction with Laure Drogoul's installation, THE CLOSET (Uniform City), we are hosting free workshops from 5PM - 7PM, Saturday, 4/12 and from 3PM - 5PM, Saturday, 4/19. Sign up for one of the 4/12 workshops on this page. Sign up for one of the 4/19 workshops HERE!

Stick around afterward for gallery hours and a free performance from Laure Drogoul and Liz Downing at 7:30PM.

4/12 WORKSHOPS

Darning Workshop

Led by Courtney Acosta

Everyone has holes! Bring your own hole and learn the basics of darning!

Quilting Workshop

Led by Marshall Moore

4/19 WORKSHOPS

More Info and Sign-Ups HERE

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

THE CLOSET (Uniform City) is a site-specific participatory installation from Baltimore artist Laure Drogoul that explores the interplay between cultural identity and clothing.

What we wear defines our sense of self, our relation to the world around us, and its relation to us. Form and function intertwined with social role and station. THE CLOSET (Uniform City) considers how our identities are sculpted through rituals that are connected to domesticity and fashion. The work also addresses the environmental impact of the textile waste that has piled up over many decades during the rise of ready-made and fast fashion. 

The project takes at Le Mondo, an artist-run performance hub once home to Uniform City, a discount uniform store on the Howard Street corridor in downtown Baltimore for over fifty years. Central to the project at Le Mondo will be an immersive labyrinthine installation of hundreds of post-consumer garments collected from multiple communities. The garments span different times and types—from sportswear and military uniforms to medical and theatrical clothing—each with its own story to tell.

From cradle to grave, we are swaddled in cloth nearly every day of our lives. THE CLOSET (Uniform City) opens a dialog about what we wear, how it defines us, and the role clothing plays in transforming our world’s present and future.