Friendship Quilt: Quilting workshop series

Drawing inspiration from the amazing African American women quilters of Gee’s Bend, Alabama and the AIDs memorial quilt project that is considered the largest community arts project in history, we will create a collective quilt called a “Friendship Quilt”.
By creating standard quilt blocks we will learn the foundation of piecing by hand and utilising block patterns. Participants will work on the collective friendship quilt whilst also completing a mini-quilt to take home.

Workshop schedule: October 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 from 14:30 until 17:30

About the artist

Erin C. Doherty is an interdisciplinary fiber-based artist and educator originally from New Orleans, LA, USA, based in The Netherlands. As a first generation, mixed Indonesian-American, her work is shaped by hybrid identity, migration, and material histories, which function as both subject matter and critical framework. Through textiles, handcraft, and found materials, she explores how cultural memory, labor, and everyday ritual are preserved, altered, and performed across geographies.

Doherty holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an MA in Visual Arts and Post-Contemporary Practice from the Master Institute for Visual Cultures in the Netherlands. She has exhibited in the United States and several European countries, including the Poznan Textile Biennale in Poland and the Limburg Biennale in the Netherlands. In 2025, she attended the Penland School of Craft for textiles with support from the Mondriaan Fund. She is a co-founder of Fiber Art Studio in Amsterdam.