DATES: Opening Cocktail Reception
Thur, August 14, 2025 | 5–7 PM
Workshop with Peg
Fri - Sun, August 15–17, 2025 | 10 AM–4 PM
WHERE: UpMarket Gallery, 68 N. Market Street, Asheville, NC 28801
COST: $700 · Limited to 7 students
When: August 15-17, 2025, 10 AM-4 PM
Opening Artist Talk & Gallery Reception: August 14, 2025, 5 – 7 PM
In-Person Classes at Upmarket Gallery (Refreshments and catered lunch included daily)
Cost: $700 – Open to 7 students
About this 3-Day Workshop with Peg Gignoux
Explore ways to blend color, line, and gesture with cloth and paper. We’ll begin by creating a series of monoprinted papers through touch drawing on tissue. Next, we’ll explore translucency by dyeing lengths of silk organza, then dip watercolor paper into the leftover dye to transform bright whites into soft, subtle tones. Using collage as our visual language, we’ll layer, slice, and combine silk and paper to build new surfaces. The workshop will include demonstrations on fusing, gluing, and stitching materials, along with design prompts that use simple geometric forms to create a rhythmic mixed-media paperscape.
The class cost is $700. There are currently 6 out of 7 available spaces for this class.
How to Register? Pay securely online with your credit card here.
If YOU have to cancel: Refunds are not available unless we can rebook your place. Please note that the closer we get to the event, the less likely we will be able to find someone to replace you.
If YOU cancel, but we can refill your spot: You will be refunded everything you have paid minus a $50 administrative fee.
If WE have to cancel: We will refund everything you have paid.
If you have any questions regarding any workshop, call 828-998-4898 or contact us directly.
Translucent silk, paper, thread, dye, and ink are some of the ingredients that I enjoy working with as a textile artist and educator. I create textile collages, mixed media and installations for gallery exhibitions and public buildings. I also maintain an active teaching artist practice- collaborating with youth in diverse populations and facilitating interdisciplinary community arts projects that land in NC libraries, schools, museums, and hospitals as picture books and /or large scale art installations. I maintain a creative writing practice and enjoy making and teaching handmade books. For twenty years I have led annual summer art retreats to Chateau du Pin, Val de Loire, France. In 2023, I established the Le Pin Residency. I received a BA in English from Kenyon College and a Masters of Industrial Design in Fibers from NCSU, College of Design.
