Join Emily Johnson and Korina Emmerich and contribute to Catalyst's massive ongoing quilt project! Learn or teach the backstitch and add your visions for the future onto one of the 84 quilts we’ve been making for over a decade. All materials will be provided.
These quilts, designed by Ojibwe textile artist Maggie Thompson, reflect a collective vision toward better futures. They hold record of performances, gatherings, historic actions, alongside personal histories, migrations, and dreams. You’ll be invited to take part—stitch with us, and add your ideas to this monumental project: What are your non-negotiable care actions?
Recommended for adults and teens. Space is limited and registration is required.
This workshop is repeated twice.
Register for the workshop in-person at MoMA on Saturday, September 20, 9:00–10:30 a.m.
The workshop off-site at Relative Arts on Wednesday, September 24, 6:30–8:00 p.m is sold out. This workshop will take place at 367 E. 10th Street, East Village, NY, 10009.
Please note that the current location of Relative Arts is not wheelchair accessible. We understand this may create barriers and apologize for any difficulties this may cause. Accessibility is important to us, and we are actively working to create more inclusive spaces for future events.
Korina Emmerich (Puyallup) founded EMME Studio in 2015 and cofounded Relative Arts in 2023. Her colorful work celebrates her patrilineal Indigenous heritage from the Puyallup tribe while aligning art and design with education. Her work has been featured on Project Runway; at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, the Denver Art Museum, New York University, Cornell University, RISD Museum, and the Museum of the City of New York; and in such publications as Vogue, Elle, InStyle, and New York Magazine. She has presented her collections at Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week, Indigenous Fashion and Arts, Santa Fe Indian Market's Couture Runway Show, and New York Fashion Week.
Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. Emily belongs to the Yup'ik Nation, is a land and water protector and an organizer for justice, sovereignty and well-being. A Bessie Award-winning choreographer, Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award, Emily is based in Lenapehoking/NYC and Haudenosaunee lands. Since 1998, Emily's large-scale performance gatherings insist thrivance, radical reworlding, and just futures. Her gatherings function as portals and care processions, engaging audienceship within and through space, time, environment—interacting with a place's architecture, peoples, histories and role in building futures. Emily is trying to make a world where performance is part of life; where performance is an integral connection to each other, our environment, our stories, our past, present and future.
Relative Arts is a community hub, open studio, and storefront showcasing contemporary Indigenous fashion and design in New York City. Co-founders Liana Shewey and Korina Emmerich will moderate a conversation with Indigenous leaders, artists, and community organizers exploring weaving as a powerful metaphor for collective care, revitalization, and relational reciprocity. The discussion will highlight how these urban-based Indigenous creatives use tradition, social impact, and artistic expression to uplift and connect their communities.
Accessibility
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Access and Community Programs are supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF).
Major funding is provided by Volkswagen of America, the Agnes Gund Education Endowment Fund for Public Programs, The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art Endowment for Educational Programs, the Jeanne Thayer Young Scholars Fund, and the Annual Education Fund.