Canyon Layer Large-Scale Circular Weaving Activity
Join Artist in Residence Orquidia Velasquez for a collaborative large-scale circular weaving activity inspired by the layered landscapes of Grand Canyon. Using suspended circular looms, participants are invited to contribute a strand or “canyon layer” to the weaving, helping build a shared artwork throughout the program.
- May 11, 2026
- 12:00PM–2:00PM MST
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Visitor Center Sphere Room
8 South Entrance Rd
Grand Canyon Village, AZ
86023
This hands-on experience reflects Orquidia’s textile practice of storytelling through fiber, connection to place, and transforming simple materials into meaningful collective art. Visitors of all ages are welcome to stop by, participate, and add their own thread to the piece.
Orquidia Velasquez
Orquidia Velasquez earned an Associate of the Arts degree from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising. Orquidia challenges herself as a salvage textile artist, exploring new methods and mediums, such as machine and hand embroidery, knitting, weaving, appliqué, soft-sculpture, fiber-collage, drawing, painting and eco-fabric dyeing to tell colorful stories on the diversity of people. Orquidia will be working with visitors in hands-on fiber art sessions that involve weaving and stitching various aspects of the Grand Canyon environment.