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For high school students (rising freshmen to graduated seniors) of all genders
Calling all creatives teens who have a favorite thrift store, mix and match their pieces, and have a style all their own! Join WAM and Wichita designer Nina Winter for a teen fashion workshop inspired by the portrait exhibition Framed in Friendship: American Women Artists and Their Networks. The free two-day workshop will focus on self-expression, making friends, and upcycling a garment in your closet--your t-shirt that has a hole, jeans that aren't quite right, or dress that's almost your favorite. We'll have the sewing machine, instruction (even for total beginners), and materials. All we need is you and that item from your wardrobe.
After the workshop, meet us back here and bring a friend on Friday, May 29. for a WAM Night: Models & Mocktails Teen Takeover--a live fashion sketching class with Stella Hankins of Bella Bonita Design.
About the instructor
Nina Winter is a Textile Artist and earned her MFA in Fashion Design & Merchandising from the Academy of Art – San Francisco. She owns and operates TISSU Sewing Studio, now in its 12th year of providing sewing and fashion education to our community.
About This Event
Sew You: Self-Expression and Upcycled Fashion
Friday, May 22, 2026 5 - 8PM
Saturday, May 23, 2026 1- 4PM
Free | registration required
For high school students (rising freshmen to graduated seniors) of all genders
Calling all creatives teens who have a favorite thrift store, mix and match their pieces, and have a style all their own! Join WAM and Wichita designer Nina Winter for a teen fashion workshop inspired by the portrait exhibition Framed in Friendship: American Women Artists and Their Networks. The free two-day workshop will focus on self-expression, making friends, and upcycling a garment in your closet--your t-shirt that has a hole, jeans that aren't quite right, or dress that's almost your favorite. We'll have the sewing machine, instruction (even for total beginners), and materials. All we need is you and that item from your wardrobe.
After the workshop, meet us back here and bring a friend on Friday, May 29. for a WAM Night: Models & Mocktails Teen Takeover--a live fashion sketching class with Stella Hankins of Bella Bonita Design.
About the instructor
Nina Winter is a Textile Artist and earned her MFA in Fashion Design & Merchandising from the Academy of Art – San Francisco. She owns and operates TISSU Sewing Studio, now in its 12th year of providing sewing and fashion education to our community.
Getting There
Wichita Art Museum
1400 West Museum Blvd
Wichita, 67203