Whitney Newton

Skill Swap Series

February 2022 - October 2022

A free monthly workshop that unites people to share skills, stories, materials, and resources. We operate on a model of reciprocity, which means that everyone has something to gain and something to contribute

Series 1:

1A: Grant Writing Basics with Victoria Manganiello

1B: Dumpling Making with Whitney Newton

1C: Found Object Weaving + Ropemaking with Jennie Maydew

Series 2:

2A: Sustaining a Creative Practice with Maria Elena Pombo

2B: Floral Arranging with Mew Filsinger

2C: Paper Yarn + Tapestry Weaving with Qiqing Lin and Elisa Lutteral

Series 3:

3A: Fermentation Basics with Jennie Maydew

3B: Mud Resist Painting with Indigo (New York Textile Month Workshop) with Whitney Newton and Jia Sung

3C: Collage, Community Building, and Alternative Creative Spaces with Melinda Kiefer

Hot Pot Goods Lotus Block Printing

Sunday, March 13 2022

Join Hot Pot Goods for a dye workshop for social good! Please bring an item made out of natural materials (cotton, linen, silk, wool, etc). Cotton handkerchiefs will also be available for purchase. These will be block printed, with natural dyes, using lotus roots and other Chinese vegetables!

The net profits will be donated to Send Chinatown Love, an organization that provides relief efforts to small businesses in Chinatown that have been negatively impacted by COVID-19.

Hot Pot Goods garments / accessories will be on display and available for purchase as well!

Lotus Block Printing Workshop - Hot Pot Goods hosted by You Stir the Pot

Sept 24 2021

A dye workshop for social good! Guests were invited to bring a thrifted item made out of natural materials (cotton, linen, silk, wool, etc). These were block printed, with natural dyes, using lotus roots! 

The admission was donated through a developing project called Hot Pot Goods (@hotpotgoods). 100% of the proceeds from Hot Pot Goods are donated to Send Chinatown Love, an organization that provides relief efforts to small businesses in Chinatown that have been negatively impacted by COVID-19.

At the end of the event, visitors were given a lotus zine with a lotus recipe, a list of Chinatown grocery stores where they can find the ingredients, and restaurants that serve lotus dishes!

Make it, Mend it, Mail it

September 2020 - June 2021

To continue Make It, Mend It without being remote, 44 participants across the US mailed a prompt along with an item that can be hand sewn. Each participant then received another item in the mail to collaborate on. The project ended when the original items were returned to their sender.

Make it, Mend it Club

Every Third Thursday at Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn Studio

6:30-9:30pm

Join us for the Make It, Mend It Club every third Thursday at Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn Studio! A social gathering for makers who love to work with fiber. We'll supply needles, sewing machines, yarn, and more. Bring clothing to mend or start a new project in a welcoming space where you can bring old friends, meet new ones, and share ideas & techniques! Any donations towards materials are greatly appreciated.

Perfect Fruit by Sprechgesang Institute

January 23 2020

7:00-10:00pm

A food based performance mapping the degradation of biodiversity and homogenization of microbiota in our food systems over a five-course progression for 20 diners with a viewing audience. Courses begin with varied preparations of a diverse set of ingredients but, as the meal progresses, result in the formation of an excessively grafted and reconstructed “perfect fruit,” a Frankensteinian amalgamation designed to be protein-rich, universally digestible, and resistant to decay, while, in return, compromising flavor and visual/textural diversity.

This project is part of the programing for TIffany Jaeyeon Shin's RECESS Session Microbial Speculation of our Gut Feelings, Jan. 12-Feb. 22