Fibers Workshop with Alex Makes Art

Get creative with fibers in this free workshop with artist Alex Adamo (Alex Makes Art)! Learn about the origin of fiber arts, make new connections and gather inspiration from Alex’s own practice, and create your own work of art. 

This workshop is offered in connection with our current exhibition Masako Miki: Midnight March, encouraging participants to embrace both craft and community while exploring the art of needle-felting.
 

Meet Alex Adamo/Alex Makes Art

Alex Adamo-Cioffredi is a Cambridge-based artist, educator, and founder of Alex Makes Art (AMA) who believes creativity lives in all of us and should be accessible to everybody. She brings people together through hands-on art experiences that are sustainable, joyful, and carefully curated – rooted in imagination and designed to create spaces where connection feels effortless and everyone belongs.

With a background shaped by university studies, mentorship, and years of community-centered practice, Alex has taught across intergenerational settings, from classrooms to public spaces, building environments where creativity can truly thrive. She currently teaches fiber arts at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, while continuing to deepen her engagement with New England’s fiber and maker communities.

Working primarily with sheep’s wool and secondhand fibers, Alex is especially drawn to braids, curves, dreamlike forms, and richly layered color. She often creates custom blends using a carding drum, transforming intentionally sourced and foraged materials into one-of-a-kind sculptures that feel both grounded and quietly electric. Lately, her work has begun to incorporate embedded trinkets, treasured fragments, filaments, and unexpected findings, creating striking contrasts between the natural and the recycled, the soft and the sharp, the familiar and the reimagined.

Alex finds endless inspiration in her mischievous English Angora bunny, Rufus, and the neighborhood recycling bin. She is always on the lookout for everyday materials that can be transformed into something unexpected, meaningful, and a little bit magical.

@alexmakes_art | www.alexmakesart.com
 

Age recommendation

This workshop is recommended for adults and children ages 12 and up. Children must be accompanied by an adult. 
 

Ticketing Notice

This event is free with advance registration; advance registration is required and tickets will sell out. Tickets will not be available on the day of the event. 
 

Documentation Notice

Photos and/or videos will be taken at this event. By attending this event, you acknowledge and agree that your likeness may be included in photos and videos of the event and that those photos and videos may be used by MassArt in connection with MassArt and MassArt Art Museum communications. If you do not agree with this usage, please notify a staff member upon arrival to receive a no-photo sticker. 
 

Access

MassArt Art Museum is committed to creating a welcoming, accessible, and inclusive environment during in-person and virtual programs and events. To request an access or disability-related accommodation, please contact MassArt Art Museum at maam@massart.edu at least two weeks before the date of the event. 

Free!

Advance tickets coming soon  

• Tickets available to MAAM email newsletter subscribers beginning April 9, 10:00am
• Tickets available to the general public beginning April 10, 10:00am