The workshop starts with a guided tour of Calculations and Coincidences and aims to develop children's fine motor skills while having fun using their imagination. Children create simple patterns on pre-prepared dotted templates with thread and a plastic embroidery needle. Then, they personalise their designs by decorating the shapes created by connecting the dots with various materials such as beads, fabrics, and buttons.
Instructor: Melike Güven
Capacity: 12 people
Duration: 90 minutes
Fee per workshop: 350 TL The event will take place at the Pera Museum.
About Melike Güven Güven graduated from Gazi University, Department of Embroidery Teaching and did her master's degree at Nişantaşı University, Institute of Social Sciences, Department of Textile and Fashion Design on ‘Techniques in Turkish Embroidery Art with Western Influence.’ She works as an embroidery teacher at Kağıthane Vocational and Technical Anatolian High School and aims to share her artistic vision with her students. Melike Güven, who deals with traditional embroidery techniques from a modern perspective, creates original works by transforming materials that have lost their function, such as fruit seeds, dried flowers, and jute threads, into embroidery.
Pera Museum, in collaboration with Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), is one of the main venues for this year’s 15th Istanbul Biennial from 16 September to 12 November 2017. Through the biennial, we will be sharing detailed information about the artists and the artworks.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 300 TL
Discounted: 150 TL
Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)