EXPLORING LEATHERCRAFT

Join leather artist Matthew Villaneuva in this three workshop introductory series to the fundamentals of leathercraft! Students will come to understand leather types and purposes, tools of the trade, how to manipulate leather, stitching, cutting, coloring, and embellishing pieces. Students will create their own personalized leather projects.

Course Details:

• Open to students 13-18 years

• Three Saturdays in July: July 13th, 20th, and 27th, 2–3:30pm

• Students will learn about creativity and resourcefulness using various leather types, stitching styles, and associated equipment.

• Students will have hands-on experience fabricating keepsake and usable items they can take home with them.

• Students will learn fundamental knowledge of leathercraft including: terminology, tools and their purposes, and basic fabrication techniques.

• $75 per student for the full 3-class session

Register for Exploring Leathercraft!

About Brenda Montaño

Brenda Montaño is a Xicana Indigena born and raised in California. She is a traditional birth worker and artist rooted in tradition and DIY culture, grounded by Reproductive Justice, Indigenous wisdom and grassroots organizing. The written word, radical histories and collage art are her favorite mediums for creation. She carries 10+years of experience in creating Zines, and 5+ years in facilitating zine workshops and collaborative zine projects. She holds skills in filling the role of educator in various settings- elementary classrooms, on Zoom, with big audiences and in one-on-one settings with her birth clients. Brenda is bilingual (Español), skilled in digital and analogue design, and is mother to two beautiful children. Outside of media making and birth work, Brenda loves spending time with her plantitas and ancestor trees, laughing with her community, and learning new, necessary, self sustaining skills in preparation for the (r)evolution. Check out her work at www.zineswithsol.com and follow her on the socials @zineswithsol. 

About Cate Clother

Cate Clother is is an artist and educator living on unceded land of the Winnemum Wintu and Okwanuchu (Dunsmuir, CA) with her husband and three children. She received her Bachelors in Fine Art from Westmont College and her Masters in Sustainability Education from Portland State. In her early career she worked as an assistant teacher at a Waldorf early childhood center, an art teacher at Portland Children’s Museum, a forest guide at Tryon Creek State Park, and a garden educator at Portland State’s Learning Gardens where she worked alongside low-income and refugee families. She also worked as a camp counselor at Lake Retreat Camp in Seattle, and at Kokrine Hills Camp in central Alaska with Athabascan and Yupik youth. For ten years, Cate lived and worked at Camphill Soltane, an intentional community on Lenape land (southeastern Pennsylvania) where she supported young adults with developmental disabilities. In 2018, Cate returned to her hometown of Dunsmuir, where Cate founded Cedar Grove in 2020. Along with her work for Cedar Grove, she is Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Cordella Press and one half of Clother Creative, a studio offering photography, design, illustration, and more. Cate was born in Mt. Shasta and raised in Dunsmuir by her grandparents, and is glad to have finally returned to the people and place she holds most dear.