Liz Kleberg & Meaghan Mitts
• – • Matt Kleberg Studio
About the speaker
Hailing from Virginia, Liz lives in San Antonio with her husband Matt and their two boys. There she makes art and operates Way Way Co., a line of children’s apparel manufactured in NYC and made from sustainably sourced materials. After earning their MFAs together at Pratt Institute, Liz and Tal Gilboa began an ongoing collaboration to create installations with video projection and sculpture. As a mother and artist, Liz is excited to provide the necessary support artists need as caretakers.
Originally from El Paso, TX, Meaghan recently moved to San Antonio after living in NYC for eighteen years. Having worked for a variety of arts nonprofits, family foundations, and arts & culture magazines, she’s played a critical role in building active engagement between organizations and their audiences. She has planned international arts conferences, multi-day workshops and training events, intimate dinners in experimental venues, artist salons, art auctions, and over thirty exhibitions. She loves finding resources to help entrepreneurial creatives flourish in their work.
Local partners
Estate Coffee Company is a small batch, craft coffee roaster and espresso bar in downtown San Antonio, Texas. We believe in sourcing the best coffee and ingredients for our beverages by working with family-owned importers and local food purveyors. We try to promote transparency by having the roasting and brewing methods front and center in our 1,200 square foot space with seating for you to watch and feel involved with the coffee roasting process.
TEKsystems supports interactive, creative and digital initiatives for clients ranging from digital agencies to Fortune 3000 companies by supplying skilled design, development, functional and marketing technology resources and solutions. As TEKsystems, we thrive at the intersection of technology and marketing thru providing resource-based solutions in the Digital, Creative, and Interactive space. Our San Antonio team specializes in providing local solutions with the backing of a national footprint ranging between web/mobile development, design, content strategy, and marketing technologies.
Modern in San Antonio is a digital publication that focuses on contemporary art and design in San Antonio and the surrounding areas. They support the visual arts community by highlighting to the public what local creatives are working on both inside and outside of our region. Their topics of interest include contemporary art, architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, graphic design, film, culinary arts, arts education, and more! Check them out at www.moderninsanantonio.com and on social media as @ModerninSA!
Additional details
Textiles are, perhaps, our most intimate possessions. Our clothing, our bedsheets, our towels, our napkins — they cover us, comfort us, and protect us, and are often the first barrier, however fragile, between our bodies and the atmosphere. Some textiles act as talismans and some are strictly utilitarian, while others hold our deepest sorrows, disappointments, and losses, and also our joys.
With this month’s theme being “thread,” Meg and Liz will be talking about creative acts of repair and mending, and what that might means for individuals and communities in this moment. While they share, they’d love for attendees to engage in mending in the style of Japanese sashiko.
You bring a textile; we can provide thread and needles.
Location
Hosted at
Matt Kleberg Studio
1138 E Commerce St.
San Antonio, Texas United States 78205
When
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