Featured Artist: Maryanne Moodie

Join Maryanne Moodie+ Ace Camps Travel in Portugal

October 28 - November 4, 2025

Weaving + Fiber Art with Maryanne Moodie

Travel to Portugal with renowned artist and author, Maryanne Moodie. Together, we’ll explore the vivid and thriving textile scene in Lisbon, then retreat to the idyllic countryside of the Alentejo Coast where we’ll dive into the world of weaving and fiber art.

While in Lisbon, we’ll spend a full-day exploring Lisbon’s contemporary textile and fiber art scene. With the help of a local guide, we’ll visit off-the-beaten path galleries, studios, and artist residences. These experiences will show us how Lisbon has become instrumental to the global textile scene and help us gather inspiration and materials for our multi-day, hands-on workshop with Maryanne. We’ll also spend a bit of time time visiting some of the vintage shops in Lisbon—one of Maryanne’s favorite hobbies—where we’ll talk about how we can use vintage textiles in our weavings and gather some fun finds to use in our rag-rug weaving project.

After enjoying the urban scene in Lisbon, we’ll transition to a rural retreat, where we’ll spend four days weaving and creating our own fiber art pieces with Maryanne. To kick things off, Maryanne will dedicate a full day to teaching us the core weaving techniques. Then, we’ll spend time taking the techniques we learned and applying them to our own, unique projects. Maryanne will spend time discussing her approach to composition and how she uses intuition as her guide. She’ll also teach the fundamentals of color theory and how to apply these fundamentals to our own projects. On our final day together, Maryanne will share one of her favorite weaving techniques—how to create a rag rug from a mix of modern fibers and vintage textiles.