Speaker Series, Group Gathering ✥ Material Salon with Eric Mindling - Wearing A World
Monthly Gathering | 1h
onlineJoin Two Talks ($90 value) for $60 until Nov 3. Bonus: includes a whole month of free Wednesday 8pm Embroidery Socials ($140 value)!
A stitch that's secretly a coral snake. A flower that holds the whole sky. Eric shows you how Oaxacan clothing speaks a living language, and by the end of the hour you'll start reading textiles instead of just looking at them.
Join us monthly for intimate virtual sessions with Folk Lounge, featuring working artists and scholars across the world. This is a forum where craft takes center stage through demonstrations, discourse, and cultural context. Talks that slap for terminally curious established artists & newcomers. You're invited to participate in conversations that expand your eye for ornament, explore untold stories, and connect with a community that spans continents and traditions. More about this series >
MEMBER PERKS
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SPEAKER
Eric Mindling is a fine art documentary photographer exploring rooted humanity, cultural wisdom, and our connection to place, community, and the earth. Oaxaca, Mexico was his home for 25 years and remains central to his work. Through photographs, books, exhibitions, writing, and talks, he shares lessons learned from Indigenous artisans, farmers, cooks, and traditional tradespeople — voices whose lives embody humility, belonging, and the sacred beauty of everyday life.
HOST
Folk Lounge is a contemporary craft collective founded by multidisciplinary artist and design leader Shagho that bridges ancestral ornamental traditions with urgent contemporary needs. Through contemplative craft circles held in public parks and collaborative programs with cultural institutions, Folk Lounge creates living spaces where traditional practices become responses to the crises of our time: nature deficit, digital overwhelm, cultural homogenization, and the erosion of intergenerational knowledge transmission.
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