SPECIAL PROGRAMS

2025 PROGRAMS

FEBRUARY

INTENSIVE ANDEAN TEXTILE ART COURSE: THE PALLAY´S WORLD

Weaving Classes – Semiology – Mythology – Pre-Columbian Textile Art

This program offers learning of pallay weaving techniques on backstrap loom. The content includes seminars and courses in textile semiotics, as well as astronomy in archaeological textiles.

MARCH

SUMMER PROGRAM

INTENSIVE ANDEAN TEXTILE ART PROGRAM: THE WORLD OF PALLAY

July 16th – 22nd, 2025

The content of this program offers training in pallay textile techniques on backstrap looms. As part of the learning, participants will stay in a Quechua community and get weaving classes. They will also learn about sociocultural aspects and textile iconographic interpretation.

JULY

SUMMER PROGRAM

TEXTILE ART AND CULTURE

July 6th – 19th, 2025

This program offers textile learning from a transversal approach. The participants are trained in the pallay technique. The program includes theoretical sessions, which allows to learn about the sociocultural background of textiles. Likewise, immersion in the pompous mamacha Carmen festivity in Pisac is part of the program.

AUGUST

ANDEAN TEXTILE LABORATORY

August 10th – 23th, 2025

This program offers an experience and learning in dialogue between conventional methodologies and the Andean way of knowing and learning. The purpose is textile learning from the Pluriversal Studies approach. Thus, the participants, under a systemic and transversal logic, learn the techniques of pallay weaving on backstrap loom. The content of the program aims to include configurations of knowledge and experiences from the Andean context. Cultural immersion in the mamacha Asunta festivity is included.

OCTOBER

INTENSIVE ANDEAN TEXTILE ART COURSE: THE WORLD OF PALLAY

Weaving Classes – Semiology – Mythology – Pre-Columbian Textile Art

The Andean civilizations´ textile art is one of the most complex in the world. Today, a diversity of techniques, applied in an immense variety of textiles, is being put into practice in high Andean communities. This two-week program offers a textile learning in a multidisciplinary way.