Felting a Floral Arrangement with Mallory Zondag

2-Day Workshop with Mallory Zondag

Saturday-Sunday, May 2-3, 2026, 9am-4pm

Learn how to sculpt organic forms with wool during this two-day, wet felting intensive with Fiber Artist, Mallory Zondag. You will learn a variety of wet felting techniques for creating flowers, leaves, stems, stamens and how to connect all of these elements to form realistic floral forms. We will also cover how to bring needle felting, stitching and beading into your felting work. Day one will cover techniques and processes for making a variety of these organic forms from peonies to roses to orchids and more. Day two will be an open studio format where students design their own unique floral arrangement and spend the day creating it, using the techniques from day one, with guidance from Mallory.

Skills level: All levels

Materials Fee:  $45.  This fee supplies each student with of all materials necessary for this workshop, including:  the felting kit (that can be taken home), merino wool, silk fibers, wire, beads and other miscellaneous tools and materials needed for the project. 

Non-Members – $330 / Members $320

Mallory Zondag is a mixed-media fiber artist and artist educator. Her experience with textiles while in art school led her to create both independent and community sculpture through a variety of fiber art mediums. She explores deeply personal and connective universal stories through the meditative and hands-on practices of wet felting, weaving, sculpting, and stitching, seeking to bring the ephemeral into physical being.  The growth and decay of the natural world, the duality of discomfort and attraction we feel towards it, and humanity’s place within this dichotomy informs her dimensional textures and sculptural pieces.

 Zondag’s work has been exhibited at The Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA; The Allentown Art Museum, PA: The International Biennial of Textile Art Scythia, Ukraine; View Arts and Culture Center, Old Forge, NY; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Towson University, MD; Ceres Gallery, NYC, NY; Main Street Studio, Ballston Lake, NY; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; El Museo Del Barrio, NYC, NY; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY: Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA; and Moravian University, Bethlehem, PA. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at Acadia National Park, The Allentown Art Museum, and The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY.

 Zondag shares her passion for handmade one-of-a-kind textiles through various educational programs and residencies. Many of these programs involve a collaborative element where the entire school works together on a single project. These programs bring an exciting hands-on artistic experience to the students as well as emphasizing community and collaboration through art. As a resident artist in over twenty schools and community organizations she has led her Fiber Living Wall program where hand felted wool living walls are collaboratively created with students of all ages and abilities. The final sculpture finds a permanent home within the school or community space. She has been the recipient of three NY Statewide Capital Regrants for Independent Artists and Community Arts and a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition for Creative Excellence and Support in Pennsylvania. Her work is held in private collections, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Acadia National Park and The Allentown Art Museum. She studied Fashion Design at Pratt Institute (BFA 2016).

Learn more about Mallory at her website: https://www.mallorymakes.com/