Workshop: Wet Felting with Yasmine K. Kasem – California Center for the Arts

Wet felting is a process of creating fabric by intentionally matting fibers together using water, friction, fat, and heat. This transformative process takes layers of soft, fragile wool roving and renders them into patterns, color fields, or imagery that are strong and durable but also soft and flexible.

In this workshop, learn the process of wet felting by creating textile pieces that use imagery inspired by transformative and enduring aspects of identity.

All materials will be provided.

About the Instructor:

Yasmine Kasem Kasem is an artist whose work focuses on the precariousness within the layers of identity and what it is to be Egyptian – American, Muslim and Queer. She works in mediums of textile, fiber and sculpture. Born and raised in central Indiana, she received her BFA in Sculpture from Herron School of Art and Design at IUPUI in 2015 and her MFA in Visual Arts at the University of California San Diego in 2019. Kasem has exhibited regionally and internationally and has work in private and public collections, such as the San Diego Civic Art Collection. In 2021, she was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship for emerging artists by the California Arts Council. Select exhibitions include “In the Adjacent Possible” at the John Michael Kohler Art Center, WI 2022 and in SPRING/ BREAK NAKED LUNCH, LA Art Fair 2023, Visions and Nightmares at Simone Subal Gallery, New York, NY 2021. ‘middle’ at bread and Salt San Diego 2022. Masricani 2018, at the San Juan Island Museum of Art in San Juan, WA. Mwasah 2018 in Santa Ana, CA. and Happening 2018 in Tijuana, MX. Kasem has been artist in residence at Bread and Salt Gallery San Diego 2021, and 1805 Gallery in San Diego in 2019.