Maker Faire Bay Area 2024
The 44 Daughters Make Your Own Doll Workshop
Home: New York, United States
The 44 Daughters workshop is a hands-on sewing and crafts experience that gives people a chance to make their original doll art. The 44 Daughters are a recognition and celebration of what it's like to be different and accepted for who they are, not how they look. Each felt doll is handmade by the artist Sam Montgomery, and adults and children can use their imaginations and creativity to make their own dolls through their artistic voices. The workshop is an opportunity to slow down, take a pause and disconnect. As a doll maker, you become an artisan giving life to Sam's dolls through your own personal expression.
http://www.44daughters.com
Maker
Sam Montgomery
Sam Montgomery is a New York City artist and the creator of the 44 Daughters Collection. His outsider artwork ranges from handmade dolls and ceramics to three dimensional art made from found objects. He has appeared as an extra on several TV shows and a movie. He's a volunteer gardener at the Riverside Park Conservancy. He also loves movies!
http://www.44daughters.comWhat Inspired You to Make This?
I was inspired to make my fabric dolls when I was in a music college for kids with learning issues who were gifted in music. My collection suggests what it's like to be a family of people who are all different. I created them to show the world that we are all the same but also our own selves, and we should be accepted for who we are. I want to give a voice for people who are different. I have learned that other people only see the world they want to see; different people see the world as it could be. Different people have to be more creative and better problem solvers. And that's what the 44 Daughters Collection represents; a voice for imagination and thinking differently.
