Join designer and artist Melanie Abrantes for an intimate, slow-craft workshop on the art of the mobile. Working with light, wood, fiber, and delicate found materials, participants will explore balance, gravity, and movement — translating form into air and composing sculptures that shift with breath, shadow, and time.

Following our weekly 11:11 Meditation with Marlon F. Hall, this session creates a continuum between stillness and motion, inward reflection and outward making. Rather than producing an object alone, the workshop invites you into a tactile way of thinking: how materials speak, how bodies listen, and how attention shapes what we build.

Through guided making and gentle discussion, Melanie will introduce principles of suspension, rhythm, and negative space while encouraging each participant to develop their own visual language. The afternoon unfolds as both a studio experience and a contemplative practice — communal yet deeply personal.

Saturday, 12–2:30 PM | All materials provided | Open to all levels

Melanie Abrantes — Bio

Melanie Abrantes is a Houston-based designer and artist whose practice sits at the intersection of material intelligence, craft, and daily ritual. Working primarily with wood, fiber, and natural forms, Abrantes creates objects that blur the line between sculpture, tool, and meditation. Her work emphasizes slowness, attention, and the quiet poetics of handwork, often drawing from traditions of craft while reimagining them through a contemporary lens.

Through workshops and collaborative projects, Abrantes cultivates spaces for communal making that prioritize presence, care, and embodied learning. Her approach treats design not merely as function, but as a form of thinking — one that unfolds through touch, repetition, and intimate engagement with materials.

Her recent projects and workshops with RUBY Projects and LaRucheHTX have centered on intentional making, collective process, and the ethics of craftsmanship within everyday life.