Americana Fiberworks is a women’s arts and educational group designed to support the positive integration of refugee and immigrant women into the Louisville community using a common interest in the fiber arts. Participants help one another develop confidence, skills, and resources necessary to identify and pursue goals for themselves and their families as they adapt to their new home in Louisville.
Fiberworks’ program members focus on:
- Increasing literacy skills
- Developing talents in fiber arts
- Fostering a supportive social network
- Promoting the microenterprise goals of the group
The women in our Fiberworks program sell their art at community events to supplement their families’ incomes. Fiberworks goods can be found at many local arts festivals. Fiberworks is also proud to partner with 21C Museum Hotel, who showcase tissue-box covers made by the women in the Fiberworks program in all their guest rooms and also sells the covers in their gift shop. Procedes from these sales provide the Fiberworks artists with additional income and increased self-confidence.
For updated news and to purchase products, please visit the Fiberworks blog!.
Volunteers are a valuable part of the Fiberworks program!
- act as an English language practice partner
- assist with arts projects
- care for children during the sessions
Have a fiber arts skill you’d like to share? Or would you like to donate supplies for the women to use? To get involved please contact Suzanne Steiger at 502-366-7813 or e-mail her at suzanne@americanacc.org.
Or visit the center! Sit in on a session, meet the artists, and browse through our new products.
