Jess Wszolek joined the Cranaleith staff in April, managing our vegetable garden, helping with land care and overseeing our elderly hens. In the off season she creates art programing, works as an assistant to the director and plans out our garden spaces. Her favorite part of the job is the time spent in our grounds seeing wildlife and helping with the bees. She is also a practicing artist who received a BFA from Tyler School of Art with a major in Printmaking. She continues her practice at a nonprofit print shop in northern liberties. Her art medium of choice is Stone Lithography, but enjoys crafts of all sorts.
Events with Jess Wszolek
Repairing Beloved Garments the Sashiko WayJanuary 30, 2025
Join us on at Cranaleith’s art room to care for your well-worn pieces of clothing. Keeping with our concern for the earth, you will be able to repair, reinforce, or add some style to your most loved garments. We will be practicing Sashiko, a methodic way of repairing holes in…
February 15, 2025
We see the works of the wind in our everyday life though the movement of leaves, fabric swaying, and trees dancing. Join us to celebrate the wind through the creation of windchimes utilizing discarded pottery and glass. This workshop will be running in person in our art room on February…
February 27, 2025
Join us on at Cranaleith’s art room to care for your well-worn pieces of clothing. Keeping with our concern for the earth, you will be able to repair, reinforce, or add some style to your most loved garments. We will be practicing Sashiko, a methodic way of repairing holes in…
February 27, 2025
We see the works of the wind in our everyday life though the movement of leaves, fabric swaying, and trees dancing. Join us to celebrate the wind through the creation of windchimes utilizing discarded pottery and glass. This workshop will be running in person in our art room. Ages 13…
March 27, 2025
Join us on at Cranaleith’s art room to care for your well-worn pieces of clothing. Keeping with our concern for the earth, you will be able to repair, reinforce, or add some style to your most loved garments. We will be practicing Sashiko, a methodic way of repairing holes in…