Fiber Art Fashion Series: Decorative Mending

Join local fiber artist and sustainability advocate Pangea Kali Virga for a vibrant four-part workshop series exploring the creative world of Fiber Art and Fashion.

Whether you’re new to fiber arts or an experienced maker, a fashion enthusiast or a sustainability advocate, these workshops invite you to dive into four dynamic techniques: Dyeing, Decorative Mending, Appliqué, and Tee Upcycling. Take one or attend all. Each workshop offers a unique hands-on opportunity to create and connect.

In this session, learn how to mend and personalize your clothing through hand-sewn Decorative Mending techniques. 

Give a second life to your garments with stains, rips, and tears by adding fun flairs to outdated pieces with decorative and functional stitching, patching, and more. Bring clothing in need of repair or practice on fabric samples to build your skills for future mending projects.

Work will be assessed by Pangea with thoughtful suggestions where needed. Samples from students throughout the series will be patchworked together to become a collaborative textile work. 

No sewing experience necessary — all are welcome!

• 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.