Join fiber artist Zoe Huddleston and learn needle felting basics just in time for spooky season! During this two hour class, students will make a needle felted pumpkin. Funds collected through ticket sales will go to helping the Overcast Animation Collective finish making the pilot episode of My Friend Blue! 

All materials will be provided!

My Friend Blue is a preschool show about cute felted autistic dinosaurs living in an apartment building. Find out more here! https://www.overcastanimation.com/my-friend-blue

Location: ADX

The Pumpkin Felting Workshop is one of the many workshops and events featured in ADX Fest, a region-wide art and design festival celebrating Portland's independent businesses and makers. Huddleston's workshop is in part a fundraiser for their emerging stop-motion animation project, My Friend Blue, a children's TV show designed to showcase a neurodiverse and multigenerational relationship between two adorable dinosaurs. Stop-motion animated with felted characters, Huddleston and her team tell a touching story of a child navigating an overstimulating neurotypical world. By developing this fundraiser, Huddleston aims to create a pathway to develop stories of resilience for communities of all ages and neuroabilities. In collaboration with ADX Fest, this workshop is a strong demonstration of the exciting steps of a grassroots movement of storytelling and community building.