{"id":4185,"date":"2023-12-08T11:16:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T19:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/collections\/2023\/12\/08\/sewing-in-community-artist-talk-with-tahereh-sheerazie\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T06:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:13:24","slug":"sewing-in-community-artist-talk-with-tahereh-sheerazie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/collections\/2023\/12\/08\/sewing-in-community-artist-talk-with-tahereh-sheerazie\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewing in Community: Artist Talk with Tahereh Sheerazie"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4188\" style=\"width: 373px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/collections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2023\/12\/IMG_7996.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4188\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/collections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2023\/12\/IMG_7996.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"414\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tahereh Sheerazie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Tuesday, December 5th, the Escalette Permanent Art Collection welcomed Tahereh Sheerazie, textile artist and landscape designer, to Chapman University. Sheerazie is a member of The Running Stitch, a sewing and quilting collective based in Los Angeles that has been active for over twenty-two years. In her lecture, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sewing In Community, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sheerazie spoke of her involvement in The Running Stitch and the story behind its commitment to community outreach. The Escalette Collection acquired three of Sheerazie&#8217;s embroidered textiles earlier this year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Born in Pakistan, Sheerazie immigrated to the United States, where she has lived most of her adult life. As she put down roots in her new home in Pasadena, Sheerazie looked for a group that would allow her, and later her daughter, to read the Qur\u2019an in community. In time, Sheerazie found The Running Stitch, a collective of Muslim women from different backgrounds who made small textiles and other fabric objects together. Joining The Running Stitch proved to be a life-changing moment in her life. Sheerazie described how the group opened her eyes to new cultures, new ways of practicing Islam, and new quilting traditions. While different in many ways, the collective is united by the running stitch &#8211; the basic stitch on which all other forms of sewing and embroidery are based.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4190\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4190\" style=\"width: 396px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/collections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2023\/12\/IMG_8001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4190\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/collections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2023\/12\/IMG_8001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"396\" height=\"446\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheerazie holding a quilt made by a Northern Pakistani woman affected by the Kashmir earthquake.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2001, The Running Stitch&#8217;s mission started to shift. 9\/11 brought attention to the Muslim community in the United States in a way that Sheerazie had not experienced before. Furthermore, 2001 was a year of heightened conflict and violence in Palestine, which affected many members of the group. It was also during this time that Sheerazie\u2019s father passed away. In the wake of international events and increasing hostility towards the Muslim community, The Running Stitch turned to philanthropy. They held small fundraisers to sell their work to help families in need. Members of The Running Stitch would reach out to their home communities to find families who needed help and arrange for the proceeds to be sent to them. Building off these experiences, they also helped raise funds for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2005, The Running Stitch partnered with various nonprofits to help Northern Pakistani villages ravaged by the Kashmir earthquake and the many women left with life-long spinal cord injuries. Sheerazie made several trips to Pakistan to bring fabric to the women recovering in hospital so that their work could be sold in the United States. Simultaneously, The Running Stitch began creating textiles that could be sold to raise money. These combined efforts resulted in the building of seven wheel-chair-accessible homes for the women and families who lost everything in the earthquake.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Watching the joy and purpose that sewing brought to the Northern Pakistani women helped Sheerazie and other members of The Running Stitch comprehend the healing power of work. While none of them realized it in the moment, the time they spent talking and sewing together allowed them to process the grief they felt in response to international crises and in their own lives. From that pain came colorful textiles that exude happiness and love. In her talk, Sheerazie spoke to the idea of regeneration, an important concept in her capacity as a landscape designer. In the same way The Running Stitch brought old scraps of fabric back to life in their work, they transformed their pain into a renewed sense of purpose and community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Samantha Dobrovolny (English, \u201827) particularly enjoyed hearing \u201cabout the healing that quilting has provided for Tahereh and The Running Stitch\u2026looking at the quilts up close, I was able to see the love and time it takes to make something so beautiful.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4187\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/collections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2023\/12\/IMG_7325.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4187\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/collections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2023\/12\/IMG_7325.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"773\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tahereh Sheerazie, Mycelial Threads, screen print, embroidery, and Chinese silk brocade, 2021.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Escalette Collection of Art was fortunate to acquire three pieces by Sheerazie for its permanent collection. These works were created in an ongoing response to the 2016 United States presidential election. That year, Sheerazie spent time at a printmaking studio in Pasadena making signs for the Women\u2019s March and other demonstrations in Los Angeles. Incorporated within the textiles are pieces of posters and other ephemera that read \u201cResist\u201d and \u201cAll Together.\u201d\u00a0 She also included a poignant quote that she found hanging in the studio: \u201cArtists need to create on the same scale that society has the capacity to destroy.\u201d Sheerazie returned to this theme in 2021 with <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mycelial Threads, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">which uses white thread to reference the mycelium network that connects plants to water and other minerals, sustaining life where it could not exist otherwise.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4189\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4189\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/collections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2023\/12\/IMG_8007.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4189\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/collections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2023\/12\/IMG_8007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"565\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tahereh Sheerazie with some of the original members of The Running Stitch, who also attended the lecture. Between the four of them, they bring knowledge of traditional Egyptian, Pakistani, Bosnian, and North American quilting to the group.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">By the end of Sheerazie\u2019s lecture, one had a sense of the many accomplishments The Running Stitch has achieved but also how incredibly humble they are about their successes. In doing their work, they never sought to lay claim to the title of artist &#8211; they never sign their work &#8211; or the recognition that comes with it. They simply wanted to do their part to help people as much as they could using the resources they had. Sheerazie and The Running Stitch demonstrate the impact that even a small, dedicated group can have on the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Sheerazie\u2019s] tale of unity and purpose has prompted me to reflect on my artistic endeavors&#8211;what can I do? How can I use my artwork to create even a fraction of the impact?&#8230; I am fueled by the hope that I, too, can contribute to a positive change in the world through my art. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8211; Shelly Netz (Graphic Design, \u201827) <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, December 5th, the Escalette Permanent Art Collection welcomed Tahereh Sheerazie, textile artist and landscape designer, to Chapman University. 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