Exploring Fiber Art: Textile Manipulation

Join artist Pangea Kali Virga for a unique hands-on opportunity to explore the rich traditions and contemporary practices of fiber art. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced artist, you will have the chance to delve into the vibrant world of fiber arts, focusing on four key textile techniques: Textile Manipulation, Weaving, Embroidery, and Patchwork. Take one or all of them!

Your final project will be showcased in the annual Student Exhibition at Oolite Arts in September 2025.

In this workshop, you’ll discover both traditional and experimental methods to transform textiles into original small-scale fiber artworks. Learn various Textile Manipulation techniques such as pleating, smocking, and fabric distressing.​ You’ll leave with a wall hanging that collages an original patchwork of your new textile manipulation samples.

Artist in Residence at Oolite Arts, Pangea Kali Virga, has her work featured in our current exhibition, Between Here and Elsewhere. Attendees will have the opportunity to visit both her studio and the exhibition.

Supplies are included, but we’ll ask you to bring any of the materials listed below that you may have at home:

• Fabric and Fabric Scraps
• Small Branches for hanging finished works
• Yarn
• Embroidery Floss




About the Instructor:
Born and raised in New York, Pangea Kali Virga now lives and works in Miami. She brings these themes to life through layered fiber artworks, dramatic experiential art and performances, free public sustainable art and skills workshops, and collaborative projects with public and private institutions.

Kali Virga is committed to transforming the art and fashion industries into more sustainable and equitable spaces. She creates art and wearable pieces from upcycled materials and natural elements using zero-waste practices, reflecting her belief in the power of art and clothing as storytellers, cultural markers, and political catalysts. Before becoming an artist Pangea worked in the fashion industry for 10 years as a designer, stylist, runway producer, and production manager.

Beyond her artistic practice, Kali Virga is a sustainability advocate, lecturer, arts event producer, and educator, sharing her expertise with hundreds of student artists of all ages.
Pangea graduated with a degree in Fashion Design from FIT, has been showcased in over 60 international publications, exhibited in over a dozen exhibitions including, but not limited to solo shows at the Deering Estate (2025), and the Miami Beach Botanical Garden (2021), group shows at Green Space (2023+2024), CAMP Gallery (2024), and MOCA (2022+2023), has been awarded multiple grants and residencies, including, but not limited to the Knight Art Champion Grant (2022); Deering Estate Artists in Residence (2023+2024), ProjectArt Residency (2021-2023), Peter Bullough Foundation Residency (2023), Miami Dade Individual Artist Grant (2022+2023+2024) and the first Community Advocate Award for the annual Zero Waste Miami Coalition Awards. Pangea Kali Virga is a current Artist in Residence at Oolite Arts and Foundation House.