Featured Programs
SANYC facilitates ongoing weekly Zoom workshops with two groups of adults with disabilities. Participants have developed their own styles of circle weaving, and are branching out into tapestry and jewelry-making. SANYC has also begun multiple in-person programs on floor looms at AHRC facilities across the city.
From July 2021 to the present, SANYC conducts weekly zoom workshops with Barrier Free Living, an organization that supports survivors of domestic violence with disabilities. We have explored tapestry, circle, jewelry, and paper weaving together. Maurine Packard, SANYC treasurer and teaching artist, was spotlighted in their August 3 blog post.
SANYC holds a weekly in-person weaving class on a SAORI loom at a Brooklyn Heartshare facility. The avid weavers have created beautiful work on the floor loom, circle looms, on baskets, and have started creating wearables such as bracelets, necklaces, and a shrug!
Institutes of Applied Human Dynamics (iAHD)
We provided Zoom workshops to train IAHD staff, who in turn wove with their clients. We have also provided a SAORI loom to their facility. You can learn more about the extraordinary weaving experiences of two IAHD clients by clicking below.
SANYC leads zoom workshops wherein participants learn to make tapestry weavings as well as jewelry. The Creative Center at University Settlement is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing the creative arts to people with cancer, chronic illnesses, and through all stages of life.
SANYC provides a therapeutic zoom workshop space wherein participants learn to make tapestry weavings, jewelry, as well as circle weavings. here there and EVERYwhere (htE) is a nonprofit, repurposed goods platform that provides survivors of economic hardships, domestic abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking with an avenue for creative expression.
A welcoming, accessible space where children with disabilities, their families, and friends play, socialize, and create a supportive community through arts, play, and conversation. SANYC has offered zoom workshops as well as brought floor looms to their summer camp program.
New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, New York, NY
SANYC’s signature program, a drop-in program for patients and families in the outpatient hematology/oncology/ bone marrow transplant clinic. We also work with select inpatients, such as children on isolation for stem cell transplants. From their pieces SANYC makes purses, pillows, backpacks, and other items for the children to keep. Our work has been featured on the Child Life Mommy Blog. Funded in part by ArtWorks, The Naomi Cohain Foundation; and The Laura Rosenberg Foundation.
Sister Pat’s Kids Camp, Esopus, NY
An outreach ministry of St. Helen’s Church in Westfield, NJ, that provides a week-long camping program for children with cancer and related blood disorders. SANYC has partnered with Sister Pat’s Camp to offer weaving to the campers (ages 6-14 years). Our teaching artists bring looms, yarn, and other materials necessary for the children to enjoy SAORI weaving during their week at camp. In the 2019 session, 60 campers made objects, such as bracelets and purses with their woven fabric.
