In-Person at MODA
Geared Towards Adults
What is Make @ MODA?
Make @ MODA is a workshop for adults who are curious about design, materials, and how things
are made. Each session combines guided prompts with hands-on exploration, inviting participants to experiment, learn new processes, and create in a welcoming, low-pressure environment.
It’s about process, curiosity, and learning by doing—no experience required.
About This Session
What if constraints were our design tools?
This final MAKE @ MODA workshop is part of a hands-on series inspired by Do More Art and focuses on how limitations can sharpen ideas rather than hold them back.
Guests will work with simple stencils to explore shape, positive and negative space, and controlled repetition. Through layered passes and small shifts in placement, participants will see how clarity, rhythm, and variation emerge from working within a defined set of constraints.
The session brings together ideas explored throughout the series—pattern, iteration, and process—while remaining welcoming to first-time attendees. The focus is not on making something elaborate, but on discovering how strong design can come from restraint.
What to Expect:
Stencils as design tools. Use simple shapes to create clarity, contrast, and strong visual structure.
Positive and negative space. Explore how what is left out can carry as much weight as what is printed.
Repetition with control. Work with consistent forms while introducing variation through placement, layering, and rhythm.
Perfect for adults curious about design and process-based making, this workshop blends hands-on exploration with design thinking. You will leave with a small series of layered works and a new appreciation for what repetition can do.
Materials Needed:
Precut stencils
Heavyweight Cardstock
Blockprinting ink
Textured Materials ( paper towels, plastic shopping bags, lace, etc.)
Scissors
Registration: $30.00 | $22.50 for MODA members
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Kimani Johnson is an Atlanta-based textile artist whose quilts explore memory, pleasure, and protest. Rooted in Southern Black and queer traditions of making, their work treats softness as a site of power. Through color, texture, and intimate materials, Johnson uses tenderness and sensuality as tools for care, survival, and resistance
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The Museum of Design Atlanta is conveniently located in the Midtown Arts District, right across the street from the Woodruff Arts Center at 1315 Peachtree St. NE Atlanta, GA 30309.
MODA is located on the ground floor of the 1315 Peachtree Building. The building is a mix use site and is shared by MODA, the Peachtree Public Library, and Perkins+Will.
MODA resides on the land of the Mvskoke (Muscogee / Creek) people.
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MODA reserves the right to cancel a program if the minimum enrollment requirements are not met, but don't worry: should MODA have to cancel, we will gladly issue a full refund to all registrants (if applicable). If you need to cancel your plans for any reason, we kindly request that you notify us at least 7 days prior to the event start.
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Designers with different styles of learning or special needs are welcome in MODA public programs. We will be able to most effectively help everyone learn and enjoy this experience if we know about those needs in advance of the program. Please email leslie@museumofdesign.org with questions or information.