Join the UC San Diego Library for a hands-on sewing circle with artist Lauryn Smith, where we’ll create garments honoring the contributions of oceanographers Easter Ellen Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Smith Hall. In this workshop, participants will use patterns designed by Lauryn Smith specifically for these pioneering women, addressing their absence in the history of oceanography. This event is part of the Embodied Pacific: Three Lives exhibition, currently on display in the Exhibition Gallery at Geisel Library.

No prior sewing experience is required. Material and tools will be provided. If you have a sewing kit, feel free to bring it along! This event is free and open to the public. Space is limited, so registration is required.

This project is supported by the Getty Foundation’s region-wide PST ART: Art and Science Collide initiative and the Fall 2024 Embodied Pacific platform of programming at UC San Diego.

About Lauryn Smith

Lauryn Smith received her MFA from UC San Diego in 2021 and is currently a lecturer for the Culture, Art, and Technology program at Sixth College. She was born and raised in rural northern New York, and received her BFA in Fine Arts from Cornell University in 2018. Lauryn is a sculptor working with textiles and various sewing techniques and applications. Her practice is based around craft and material as well as concepts of memory, landscape, and phenomenological experiences. She cares deeply about the process of making, and though her work often demands repetitive and laborious construction, the small details within each piece are carefully selected for their overall contribution to the work. Each of Lauryn’s works deals with its own set of concepts, but all of them are connected to craft, traditional practices of quilting, the body, movement, and the natural environment. In her studio, Lauryn experiments with various fabrics, fibers, dyes, sewing techniques, and more.