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CoLab

Loops && Loops

CultureHub NYC
47 Great Jones Street
3rd Floor
New York, NY 10012

July 6-10, 2026
11am-2pm ET
In-Person
Free

Join us for a 5-day workshop for young artists (ages 14–20) who live in NYC.

Before computers, there were looms. Before software, there were stitches. Loops && Loops is a five-day workshop where you'll learn to code and crochet at the same time, and discover that they're two sides of the same idea. You'll move between a laptop and a hook, between pixels and yarn. You'll learn to draw and make patterns with code, then translate a drawing into a filet crochet pattern you stitch by hand.

Along the way, you'll meet two kinds of loops: the kind that runs inside code, and the kind that builds a piece of fabric, one stitch at a time. Students will use p5.js (Javascript library) to learn coding and design family name emblems onto filet crochet tapestries to take home.

day1: First Loop, Before Computers
- What is a loop, before and after computers?
- Loops: chain, single crochet, double crochet

day2: Where Code Begins
- First code sketch: drawing with code (p5.js)
- Reading your stitches + crochet patterns

day3: Inside the Loops
- Designing with computation and logic
- Pattern generation

day4: From Code to Cloth
- Pixelating your drawing
- Work on your filet crochet

day5: Finishing Touches
- Work on filet crochet + Weaving in ends and blocking

No prior experience in coding or crochet is required!

CoLab is CultureHub’s free one week art & technology program for young artists ages 14–20. This workshop is FREE to anyone interested in the arts and technology ages 14-20 who live in New York City. The workshop will run from 11am-2pm for five days. Students should be able to attend all five sessions. Participants who complete the full program will receive a gift card stipend!

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HELEN LIN is an multidisciplinary artist born and raised in a first-generation Chinese-American immigrant family in Brooklyn, NY. She makes art with and for people who work with their hands, celebrating the importance and craft of maintenance. Through labor-intensive stitching of physical and digital forms, she reveals the melancholic undercurrents behind pop cultural artifacts. She holds a BA in Visual Arts and East Asian Studies from Princeton University and a MPS in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. As a high schooler, she attended the 2013 CoLab session at CultureHub.

Yu Lee is a computational artist and educator working across procedural art and interactive installation. Her practice explores collective play, inner reflection, and resilience in technologically mediated spaces. Through procedural systems, generative patterns and participatory interfaces, she constructs moments where the algorithmic and the personal quietly converge. She has taught courses and workshops at Parsons School of Design, New York University, CultureHub NYC, and CC Fest, and co-hosted HTML Day NYC and Processing Community Day Taiwan. She has shown her work at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Open Hardware Summit, and Open Source Arts Contributors Conference.

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Image courtesy of Helen Lin and Yu Lee