led by malavika rao
Using fabric scraps, felt, and stuffing, participants will design and hand sew their own soft sculpture keychains. This workshop encourages play, experimentation, and low-stakes making—no sewing experience required.
Bring your own notions and fabric scraps if you’d like to upcycle them!
malavika rao is a multidisciplinary artist and educator primarily working in painting, fiber, and installation. malavika’s practice recontextualizes practices of homemaking as methods of worldmaking. malavika uses craft to heal generational trauma and tend to the fragile relationship between care and survival. In their installations, malavika employs various crafting practices as modes of speculative world-building—creating spaces to interrogate inherited structures of care. They propose alternative relational frameworks grounded in reciprocity and collective sustenance, invoking a deeper, cosmological sense of interconnectedness, where the act of making becomes a ritual of repair, attunement, and orientation toward life-affirming futures.
September 27
2pm - 5pm
850 N Virgil Ave
Limited sliding scale tickets available at each tier; please select the tier corresponding to your ability to pay. Selecting higher tiers supports house mouse and those unable to afford the full cost of the workshop.
Tickets are transferable but non-refundable. Please email us at squeak@housemouse.la with any questions.
led by malavika rao
Using fabric scraps, felt, and stuffing, participants will design and hand sew their own soft sculpture keychains. This workshop encourages play, experimentation, and low-stakes making—no sewing experience required.
Bring your own notions and fabric scraps if you’d like to upcycle them!
malavika rao is a multidisciplinary artist and educator primarily working in painting, fiber, and installation. malavika’s practice recontextualizes practices of homemaking as methods of worldmaking. malavika uses craft to heal generational trauma and tend to the fragile relationship between care and survival. In their installations, malavika employs various crafting practices as modes of speculative world-building—creating spaces to interrogate inherited structures of care. They propose alternative relational frameworks grounded in reciprocity and collective sustenance, invoking a deeper, cosmological sense of interconnectedness, where the act of making becomes a ritual of repair, attunement, and orientation toward life-affirming futures.
September 27
2pm - 5pm
850 N Virgil Ave
Limited sliding scale tickets available at each tier; please select the tier corresponding to your ability to pay. Selecting higher tiers supports house mouse and those unable to afford the full cost of the workshop.
Tickets are transferable but non-refundable. Please email us at squeak@housemouse.la with any questions.
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