Artist-Led Design Workshops

Annie and SJ facilitate artist-led workshops that extend groupsports’ practice in material research, tactile furniture, and sensory design. Through hands-on making, workshops explore materials, processes, and the relationship between objects, spaces, and everyday experience.

We work with companies, design studios, museums, universities, schools, hotels, and cultural organizations. Custom workshops are available in person and virtually as single sessions or multi-session programs.

Based in Los Angeles, we develop and facilitate workshops with organizations across different locations and contexts.

All materials are provided. Workshops can be adapted for different audiences, group sizes, and settings.

SJ Naim and Annie Render
SJ Naim and Annie Render

Workshops

Cyanotype Printing on Fabric

An introduction to cyanotype printing on fabric through textile-based image making. Participants explore exposure, composition, and material transformation while creating original fabric works.

Workshops can be developed around themes such as native plants, found objects, personal artifacts, or site-specific materials.

Wind Chime Making Workshop

A hands-on exploration of sound, movement, and material through the creation of wind-activated objects. Participants work with natural and found materials to create objects that respond to wind, weather, and outdoor environments.

groupsports studio space

Custom Workshops

We develop custom artist-led design workshops around materials, processes, and ideas from our studio practice. Workshops often incorporate natural, found, reclaimed, or site-specific materials.

Areas of exploration include:

Textile construction

Natural dyeing and color techniques

Cyanotype and alternative printmaking

Circular material practices

Hand building, object casting, and mold making

Soft furniture, textiles and textile objects

Prototyping and model making

Sun, wind, water, and earth-based objects

Experimental fabrication

Workshop Formats:

In-person workshops

Virtual workshops

Single sessions

Multi-session series

Corporate, private and organizational programs

Educational and public programs

Selected Organizations & Collaborations

California Institute of the Arts

Printed Matter

Harvard Graduate School of Design

Small Office

MILLIØNS

Dudek Inc.

City of Pasadena

Amigos de Los Rios

Studio Safar

Interested in developing an artist-led design workshop with us?

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