Felting a Floral Arrangement with Mallory Zondag

2-Day Workshop with Mallory Zondag

Saturday-Sunday October 25-26, 2025, 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. 

Supply Fee Paid Directly to Instructor:  $45 supply cost per person which covers all materials: 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. She graduated from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Fashion Design and her work has been exhibited in both solo and group shows in New York,
Pennsylvania, Virginia and the Ukraine. She has been an artist in residence at The Allentown Art Museum, The Wassaic Project and many schools and community organizations. During many of these residencies she has led community art programs where felted wool living walls are collaboratively created with students of all ages and abilities. She was commissioned to create the sensory space for Artsquest’s Accessible Arts program and was recently commissioned to recreate a component of one of Amalia Mesa-Bains’s installations for her retrospective at the Berkeley Art Museum. Mallory currently travels around the Northeast teaching workshops, leading community art programs and installing shows. Her work explores our tenuous relationship with the continuous growth and decay of the natural world and humanity’s place within those cycles using felted wool, wax, fibers, fabrics and objects both found and recycled. Our collective fascination and repulsion towards natural processes, from blooming flowers to blooming molds, pushes her to sculpt moments of grotesque beauty, investigating this duality through the meditative and hands-on practices of wet felting, weaving, sculpting and stitching.